AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 18 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 389.99
$ 139.96 significantly less expensive
$ 529.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8378 points
25% slightly better overall score
6700 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8533 points
64% significantly better gaming score
5199 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8330 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
7270 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8329 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
7597 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

275.17 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
219.38 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
18
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
36
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
65% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
30% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
38% slightly lower TDP
145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

131st of 1,089
210th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900XT beats the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 3900XT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3900XT CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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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