AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Ryzen 9 5980HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3900XT performs better than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5980HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5980HX. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5980HX. The Ryzen 9 5980HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3900XT thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5980HX. The Ryzen 9 3900XT also has significantly more 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.