AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i7-2600K

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i7-2600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3950X beats the Core i7-2600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-2600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2600K. Also, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-2600K outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3950X thanks to a slightly 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.