AMD Ryzen 9 9900X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 200.05 significantly less expensive

$ 569.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13788 points

15772 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14026 points

15040 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13725 points

16008 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13727 points

16094 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

13920 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

13700 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

462.53 points

466.69 points

0.90% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19790 points

20191 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3339 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

3294 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.4 GHz

Identical

4.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

5.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB

Identical

960 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

Identical

12 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

128 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

35th of 1,089

19th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 9900X vs Ryzen 9 9900X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D performs better than the Ryzen 9 9900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9900X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9900X3D have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 9900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.