AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Intel Core i7-13850HX

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 24 core CPU vs Intel 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12902 points
44% significantly better overall score
8904 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9051 points
10350 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14301 points
67% significantly better multitasking score
8534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14990 points
75% significantly better heavy workload score
8540 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

545.75 points
88% significantly higher Blender score
288.81 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
20% slightly more cores
20

Threads

Number of logical processing units

48
71% significantly more threads
28

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
80% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.3 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
28 MiB
133% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
326% significantly more L3 cache
30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

42nd of 1,089
114th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Core i7-13850HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X is faster than the Core i7-13850HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-13850HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has slightly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-13850HX has 20 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-13850HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13850HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13850HX.

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.

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