AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 389.99
$ 287.24
$ 102.75 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8378 points
11194 points
33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8533 points
9928 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8330 points
11640 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8329 points
11833 points
42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8585 points
11823 points
37% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

275.17 points
406.94 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10007 points
12256 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1698 points
2148 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9918 points
12029 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1737 points
2207 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
4.9 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
Identical
105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
1024 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
8 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
Identical
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

131st of 1,089
66th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Ryzen 9 5950X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5950X is faster than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900XT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 3900XT has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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