AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Core i7-6950X

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Core i7-6950X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6950X beats the Ryzen 3 3300X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3300X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-6950X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3300X. Indeed, the Core i7-6950X has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3300X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3300X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6950X. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3300X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6950X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-6950X has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3300X. The Core i7-6950X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.