Core i9 10900K vs. Ryzen 9 3900X/3950X Performance Per Dollar
Tests for a future article on Phoronix by Michael Larabel.
Core i9 10900K
Processor: Intel Core i9-10900K @ 5.30GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER (F3 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Comet Lake PCH, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 8GB (2060/875MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Network: Intel Device 15f3 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201
OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.7.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20200519, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: amdgpu 19.1.0, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0xc8
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.18rc1 + Python 3.8.2
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: KVM: Mitigation of Split huge pages + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Ryzen 9 3900X
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-FI) (1201 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 8GB (2060/875MHz), Audio: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel I211 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand - CPU Microcode: 0x8701013
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.18rc1 + Python 3.8.2
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full AMD retpoline IBPB: conditional STIBP: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Ryzen 9 3950X
Changed Processor to AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads).
dav1d
Zstd Compression
OSBench
BRL-CAD
Scikit-Learn
Mlpack Benchmark
Git
Selenium
Appleseed
NeatBench
Hierarchical INTegration
Numenta Anomaly Benchmark
PyPerformance
PyBench
Xsbench
Blender
Facebook RocksDB
IndigoBench
Optcarrot
Basemark GPU
Sysbench
ctx_clock
PlaidML
Stress-NG
Redis
RawTherapee
LibreOffice
GIMP
GEGL
SQLite Speedtest
Basis Universal
G'MIC
GROMACS
libjpeg-turbo tjbench
ASKAP
Multichase Pointer Chaser
Core-Latency
Cpuminer-Opt
Aircrack-ng
OpenSSL
Tachyon
Radiance Benchmark
Perl Benchmarks
N-Queens
Minion
m-queens
Hackbench
GnuPG
FFmpeg
LAME MP3 Encoding
FLAC Audio Encoding
DeepSpeech
Cython benchmark
Zstd Compression
XZ Compression
Gzip Compression
Bullet Physics Engine
AOBench
Numpy Benchmark
rays1bench
YafaRay
Tungsten Renderer
Smallpt
Primesieve
Parallel BZIP2 Compression
C-Ray
Build2
Timed PHP Compilation
Timed MPlayer Compilation
Timed LLVM Compilation
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation
Timed ImageMagick Compilation
Timed GDB GNU Debugger Compilation
Timed GCC Compilation
Timed FFmpeg Compilation
Timed Apache Compilation
ebizzy
Swet
asmFish
Stockfish
7-Zip Compression
Himeno Benchmark
LuxCoreRender
Coremark
OpenVKL
Intel Open Image Denoise
ACES DGEMM
x265
x264
VP9 libvpx Encoding
Embree
AOM AV1
TTSIOD 3D Renderer
dav1d
oneDNN MKL-DNN
GraphicsMagick
John The Ripper
TSCP
Botan
Nettle
CacheBench
Fhourstones
Renaissance
DaCapo Benchmark
Java Gradle Build
Bork File Encrypter
Java SciMark
Go Benchmarks
libgav1
BLAKE2
LULESH
Timed HMMer Search
NWChem
Timed MrBayes Analysis
Pennant
FFTW
Algebraic Multi-Grid Benchmark
lzbench
toyBrot Fractal Generator
Polyhedron Fortran Benchmarks
Nebular Empirical Analysis Tool
NAMD
Rodinia
CP2K Molecular Dynamics
Parboil
LeelaChessZero
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
High Performance Conjugate Gradient
Crypto++
IPC_benchmark
C-Blosc
Sockperf
ParaView
Xonotic
Unigine Valley
Unigine Superposition
Unigine Heaven
Tesseract
ET: Legacy
IOR
Core i9 10900K
Processor: Intel Core i9-10900K @ 5.30GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER (F3 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Comet Lake PCH, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 8GB (2060/875MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Network: Intel Device 15f3 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201
OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.7.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20200519, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: amdgpu 19.1.0, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0xc8
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.18rc1 + Python 3.8.2
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: KVM: Mitigation of Split huge pages + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 20 May 2020 11:01 by user pts.
Ryzen 9 3900X
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-FI) (1201 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 8GB (2060/875MHz), Audio: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel I211 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.7.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20200519, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: amdgpu 19.1.0, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand - CPU Microcode: 0x8701013
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.18rc1 + Python 3.8.2
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full AMD retpoline IBPB: conditional STIBP: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 26 May 2020 14:01 by user pts.
Ryzen 9 3950X
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-FI) (1201 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 8GB (2060/875MHz), Audio: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel I211 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.7.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20200519, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: amdgpu 19.1.0, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,hsa --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand - CPU Microcode: 0x8701013
Graphics Notes: GLAMOR
Java Notes: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1)
Python Notes: Python 2.7.18rc1 + Python 3.8.2
Security Notes: itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full AMD retpoline IBPB: conditional STIBP: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 22 May 2020 12:41 by user pts.