Comparison of AMD Ryzen 5 3500X and Intel Core i9-9920X

Attribute	Intel Core i9-9920X ×	AMD Ryzen 5 3500X ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Core i9	AMD Ryzen
Model	Intel Core i9-9920X	AMD Ryzen 5 3500X
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	12	6
Frequency (GHz)	3.5	3.6
CPU Threads	24	6
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	-
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.5	4.1
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	-	4
Turbo (12 Cores) (GHz)	4.3	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-2666	-
Max. Memory (GB)	128	-
PCIe lanes	44	20
PCIe version	3.0	4.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	4	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2018	2019
Technology (Nm)	14	7
Socket	LGA 2066	AM4
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-v sev
L3-Cache (MB)	19	32
Architecture	Skylake	Zen 2
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	92	95
TDP (PL1) (W)	165	65
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	25,167	16,110
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,154	1,169
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	12,763	5,311
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	197	188
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	2,245	1,129
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	455	464
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	5,179	2,652
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	138	-