AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Intel Core i7-12700K

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Core i7-12700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X is faster than the Core i7-12700K. Despite this, the Core i7-12700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-12700K has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700K. Despite this, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700K outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 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 Threadripper 3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.