Intel Core i7-3960X vs AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4000 Series Desktop 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 250.00
$ 197.16
$ 52.84 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3693 points
3739 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4998 points
5974 points
19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3261 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
3070 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3155 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
2946 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.62 points
79.49 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3209 points
4602 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

661 points
1465 points
121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.80 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
65 W
100% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

464th of 1,089
457th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 3 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-3960X vs Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3960X performs better than the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3960X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3960X. The Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G 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.

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