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

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Core i9-12900HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X beats the Core i9-12900HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HX 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 i9-12900HX that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HX 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12900HX. The Ryzen Threadripper 3960X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.