Intel Core i7-3960X vs Intel Core i9-10885H

Core i7-3960X vs Core i9-10885H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3960X is faster than the Core i9-10885H. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10885H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-3960X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3960X. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10885H. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10885H outputs less heat than Core i7-3960X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.