AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Intel Core i5-12600KF

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Core i5-12600KF specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600KF beats the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has significantly more cores with 32 cores compared to the Core i5-12600KF that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600KF. Both the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X and Core i5-12600KF have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-12600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600KF outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 3970X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 3970X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.