AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
AMD started Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 sales 30 September 2019. This is a Zen 2 architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 12 cores and 24 threads, and is based on 7 nm, 12 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4300 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR4-3200 memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 20.64% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
General info
Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 238 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Series | AMD Ryzen 9 | |
| Architecture codename | Zen 2 (2019−2020) | |
| Release date | 30 September 2019 (4 years old) |
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 12 (Dodeca-Core) | |
| Threads | 24 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.1 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 4.3 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 768 KB | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 6 MB | of 36 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 64 MB | of 768 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm, 12 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | Socket AM4 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 9 PRO 3900. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 9 PRO 3900's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4-3200 | |
| Maximum memory size | 128 GB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 51.196 GB/s | of 460.8 (EPYC 9124) |
| ECC memory support | - |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 9 PRO 3900.
| Integrated graphics card | - |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 9 PRO 3900. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
Benchmark coverage: 42%
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Benchmark coverage: 42%
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Relative perfomance
Overall Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.
Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 is Core i5-13500, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 9 PRO 3900:
Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 9 PRO 3900, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 61 configurations based on Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 in our database.
