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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Intel Core i7-5960X

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X

Rank 2 - 72 %

Intel Core i7-5960X

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X

Rank 2 - 33 %

Intel Core i7-5960X

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

24C / 48T · 4.50 GHz

81 pts

8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz

55 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

24C / 48T · 4.50 GHz

2,011 pts

8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz

498 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

24C / 48T · 4.50 GHz

1,684

8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz

1,154

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

24C / 48T · 4.00 GHz

13,875

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

7,640

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

24C / 48T · 4.50 GHz

1,274

8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz

1,002

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

24C / 48T · 4.00 GHz

21,436

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

7,843

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Multi-core performance

24C / 48T · 4.00 GHz

59.2 s

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

254.1 s

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

24C / 48T · 3.80 GHz

16,082

8C / 16T · 3.00 GHz

3,944

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

24C / 48T · 4.50 GHz

209 cb

8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz

177 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

24C / 48T · 4.00 GHz

5,933 cb

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

1,360 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X	Intel Core i7-5960X
Family	AMD Ryzen Threadripper (16)	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 (3)	Intel Core i 5000X (3)
Architecture	Castle Peak (Zen 2)	Haswell E
Technology	7 nm	22 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	TRX4 (sTRX4)	LGA 2011-3
Predecessor		Intel Core i7-4960X
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X	Intel Core i7-5960X
CPU Cores / Threads	24 / 48	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	24x	8x
Frequency:	3.80 GHz	3.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.50 GHz	3.50 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	4.00 GHz	3.20 GHz
L2-Cache	12.00 MB
L3-Cache	128.00 MB	20.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X	Intel Core i7-5960X
GPU name	no iGPU	no iGPU
GPU frequency
CUs / Shader	/	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays
Max. GPU Memory
Technology
Release date

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X	Intel Core i7-5960X
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X	Intel Core i7-5960X
Memory	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	2048 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	4	4
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	4.0 x 64	3.0 x 40
PCIe Bandwidth	126.0 GB/s	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X	Intel Core i7-5960X
TDP	280 W	140 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X	Intel Core i7-5960X
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2019	Q3/2014
Release price	1435 $	829 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X is 4.9 stars (15 ratings), while Intel Core i7-5960X has received 4.6 stars (18 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X
24C / 48T · 3.80 - 4.50 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-5960X
8C / 16T · 3.00 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★