Intel Core i7-3960X vs Intel Core i7-9750HF

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3693 points

3873 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4998 points

1% slightly better gaming score

4925 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3261 points

3532 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3155 points

3431 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.62 points

81.47 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3209 points

4839 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

661 points

1360 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

2.59 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.5 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

128 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

464th of 1,089

445th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-3960X vs Core i7-9750HF benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9750HF is faster than the Core i7-3960X. Despite this, the Core i7-3960X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9750HF.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.