AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Core i9-13980HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X performs better than the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX 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 i9-13980HX has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13980HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13980HX has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. The Core i9-13980HX 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.