AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i7-12700H

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i7-12700H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3950X is faster than the Core i7-12700H. Despite this, the Core i7-12700H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-12700H that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3950X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-12700H outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.