AMD Ryzen 3 4300G vs Intel Core i7-3960X

Ryzen 3 4300G vs Core i7-3960X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 4300G beats the Core i7-3960X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3960X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3960X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 4300G. Indeed, the Core i7-3960X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 4300G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4300G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4300G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3960X. A Ryzen 3 4300G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3960X CPU because of its 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 Ryzen 3 4300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.