AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 288V

Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Core Ultra 9 288V benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D performs better than the Core Ultra 9 288V. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 9 288V in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core Ultra 9 288V that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 288V. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 288V. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 288V has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 288V.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.