AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i9-9980XE

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 16 / Sep 2019
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
Intel Core i9-9980XE
Intel Socket 2066DESKTOP
3000 MHz / Cores: 18 / Oct 2018
Intel Core i9-9980XE

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
    123%
  • Intel Core i9-9980XE
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
    113%
  • Intel Core i9-9980XE
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
    133%
  • Intel Core i9-9980XE
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

13% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 33% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
60 watts lower power draw.
Around 23% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i9-9980XE

None

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 9 3950XIntel Core i9-9980XE
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost 2
XFR 2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
Boost 2.0
Boost 3.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 9 3950XIntel Core i9-9980XE
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsIntel_Skylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZen 2vsSkylake-X
Release DateSep 2019vsOct 2018

Cores

AMD Ryzen 9 3950XIntel Core i9-9980XE
Cores16vs18
Threads32vs36
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 9 3950XIntel Core i9-9980XE
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs64K (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs1MB (per core)
L3 Cache72MBvs24.75MB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 9 3950XIntel Core i9-9980XE
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 2066
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackagevsFC-LGA2066
Die Sizeunknownvsunknown
Process7 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 3950XIntel Core i9-9980XE
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs3000 MHz
Turbo Clock4700 MHzvs4500 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP105 Wvs165 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
    5264 points
  • Intel Core i9-9980XE
    5175 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
    76518 points
  • Intel Core i9-9980XE
    75141 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
    215
  • Intel Core i9-9980XE (simulated)
    190.18

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
    3969
  • Intel Core i9-9980XE (simulated)
    2970

points - higher is better