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

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3950X is faster than the Core i9-11900K. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K 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 i9-11900K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. Both the Ryzen 9 3950X and Core i9-11900K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3950X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-11900K CPU because of its slightly 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 3950X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900K. 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.