AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i9-11900F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 399.99
$ 329.00
$ 70.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points
12% slightly better overall score
8228 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
10552 points
41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
31% slightly better multitasking score
7484 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
38% slightly better heavy workload score
7301 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points
11422 points
5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
123% significantly higher Blender score
166.69 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10775 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
9643 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1676 points
2228 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9503 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points
2234 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
60% significantly more L1 cache
640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 1,089
137th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i9-11900F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3950X performs better than the Core i9-11900F. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-11900F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900F. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11900F outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 3950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900F. The Ryzen 9 3950X 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 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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