AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i9-11900KF

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i9-11900KF benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3950X performs better than the Core i9-11900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-11900KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900KF. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900KF. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900KF. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 9 3950X and Core i9-11900KF are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3950X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-11900KF CPU because of its slightly 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 Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900KF. The Ryzen 9 3950X 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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.