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

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Core i9-12900KF benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900KF 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 i9-12900KF has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900KF. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900KF outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 3970X thanks to a slightly 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.