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Smart Wizard
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Compare complete builds side by side.
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About This Product
The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X is a 12-core, 24-thread desktop processor based on the Zen 2 architecture. It offers strong multi-threaded performance suitable for content creation, video editing, and heavy multitasking. While capable for gaming, it generally performs similarly to or slightly behind Intel's contemporary i9 processors in single-threaded gaming benchmarks.
Performance Benchmarks
Scores are grouped by benchmark family so it is easy to compare raw speed, threaded output, and real-world value without mixing scales.
Render Workloads
Next-Gen Scale
Large Sample Pool
Value & Efficiency
These derived metrics use Cinebench R23 multi-core performance to keep the value calculation consistent across the catalog.
Performance per Watt
173.0 pts/W
Performance per Dollar
117.2 pts/$
Gaming Performance
These results come from real submitted gameplay sessions, so the reference GPU matters as much as the CPU itself.
Reference GPU
Slay the Spire 2
Mixed player settings
49 FPS
Playable
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