AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Intel Core i7-12700KF

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Core i7-12700KF comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700KF is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has significantly more cores than the Core i7-12700KF. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has 32 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i7-12700KF. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700KF. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-12700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12700KF 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.

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