AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Intel Core i9-12900F

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 32 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-12900F

Price

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$ 1699.99

$ 528.31

$ 1171.68 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

15743 points

48% significantly better overall score

10606 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9436 points

12487 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

18087 points

80% significantly better multitasking score

10032 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

19374 points

94% significantly better heavy workload score

9936 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16764 points

53% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

10914 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

694.97 points

136% significantly higher Blender score

293.98 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13763 points

13858 points

0.69% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1662 points

2526 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

54% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

5.1 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

280 W

65 W

330% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

2048 KiB

60% significantly more L1 cache

1280 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB

326% significantly more L3 cache

30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

20th of 1,089

76th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Core i9-12900F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900F 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has significantly more cores with 32 cores whereas the Core i9-12900F has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900F. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900F 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.