AMD Ryzen 9 3900: specs and benchmarks

Summary
AMD started AMD Ryzen 9 3900 sales 9 October 2019. This is Matisse (Zen 2) 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 supports DDR4-3200 memory.
It provides good benchmark performance at 34.88 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX.
General info
Of Ryzen 9 3900 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.
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.
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 9 3900 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.
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.
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 9 3900 are enumerated here.
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 9 3900.
Graphics specifications
General parameters of GPU integrated into Ryzen 9 3900.
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Ryzen 9 3900. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
3DMark06 CPU
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
WinRAR 4.0
x264 encoding pass 1
x264 encoding pass 2
TrueCrypt AES
Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core
Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core
Passmark
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 among desktop CPUs.
Intel equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Ryzen 9 3900 from Intel is Core i9-9960X, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.