AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i5-4460

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Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 399.99
$ 64.04
$ 335.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points
348% significantly better overall score
2056 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
96% significantly better gaming score
3787 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
527% significantly better multitasking score
1570 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
569% significantly better heavy workload score
1507 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points
296% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2725 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
805% significantly higher Blender score
41.05 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10775 points
267% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2935 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1676 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1032 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points
261% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2954 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1068 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
300% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
700% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
38% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
84 W
25% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
966% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 1,126
733rd of 1,126

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

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