AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Intel Core i9-13900KF

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 24 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 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

$ 1000.49
$ 551.08
$ 449.41 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12902 points
17180 points
33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9051 points
16331 points
80% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14301 points
17547 points
22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14990 points
17852 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14014 points
16391 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

545.75 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
526.86 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13136 points
19878 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1646 points
2946 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13168 points
19500 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1679 points
2919 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
Identical
24

Threads

Number of logical processing units

48
49% significantly more threads
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.8 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

280 W
125 W
124% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1536 KiB
1920 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
255% significantly more L3 cache
36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

42nd of 1,089
8th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Core i9-13900KF specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900KF is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-13900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-13900KF 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 info from our database shows that the Core i9-13900KF has more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-13900KF.

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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