AMD Ryzen 9 3900: specs and benchmarks
General info
Technical specs
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
Intel equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
Summary
AMD started AMD Ryzen 9 3900 sales 9 October 2019. This is Zen2 architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 12 cores and 24 threads, and is based on 7 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4300 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AM4 (1331) processor with a TDP of 65 Watt.
It provides good benchmark performance at 38.11 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X.
General info
Of Ryzen 9 3900 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.
Type
Desktop
Series
AMD Matisse (Ryzen 3000 Desktop)
Architecture codename
Zen2
Release date
9 October 2019
Technical specs
Ryzen 9 3900's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Ryzen 9 3900's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
Number of cores
12
Number of threads
24
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
64 bit support
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Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 9 3900 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.
Socket
AM4 (1331)
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 9 3900. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
AES-NI
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AVX
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Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 9 3900 are enumerated here.
AMD-V
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Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Ryzen 9 3900. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
38.11
3DMark06 CPU
13817
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
5700
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
44191
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core
2.22
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
31
Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
197
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
2804
WinRAR 4.0
7145
x264 encoding pass 1
256
x264 encoding pass 2
132
TrueCrypt AES
10.4
Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core
5482
Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core
41058
Passmark
30981
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Ryzen 9 3900 is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Ryzen 9 3900 performance compared to nearest competitors. All CPU types participate.
Intel equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Ryzen 9 3900 from Intel is Core i9-9960X, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.
