AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Intel Core i9-12900F

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Core i9-12900F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X performs better than the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i9-12900F that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900F 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.

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 3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.