AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Core i7-12700KF

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 16 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 850.00
$ 229.97
$ 620.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7764 points
11376 points
46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7302 points
13117 points
79% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7916 points
10800 points
36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7971 points
10658 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9121 points
10063 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

262.92 points
304.09 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7426 points
13015 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
2418 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7983 points
13490 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points
2520 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
33% slightly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
60% significantly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
5% slightly lower TDP
190 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1536 KiB
60% significantly more L1 cache
960 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
28% slightly more L3 cache
25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 1,089
62nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Core i7-12700KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700KF beats the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-12700KF that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. A Ryzen Threadripper 1950X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700KF CPU because of its slightly 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 Threadripper 1950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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