AMD Ryzen 9 3950X beats Intel’s Core i9-10980XE in Geekbench

The Red team recently announced their consumer-oriented flagship CPU – the Ryzen 9 3950X that features 16 cores and 32 threads. This $749 CPU which will be available in few days sets a new benchmark against Intel.

Intel’s latest HEDT processor Core i9-10980XE is here and how well does it compare to the new Threadripper CPUs? Well even though we do not know what exactly but what it suggests now is that the lower-priced consumer end Ryzen 9 3950X is able to beat Intel’s flagship 18 core HEDT processor.

A few days ago, AMD launched their 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs with 24 cores and 32 cores along with Athlon 3000G APU. Not even close to the new Threadripper CPUs, the Intel Cascade Lake X CPU has failed to beat the consumer flagship 16 core Ryzen 9.

According to early benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3950X offers a comparable performance against Intel’s HEDT flagship, the Core i9-10980XE. Though the comparison between the two doesn’t seem fair enough as the i9-10980XE is priced at around $1000 and the Ryzen counterpart is cheaper.

After a decade now, AMD’s superiority is being reflected and truly the 7nm architecture has boosted its performance. In Geekbench 4, the Ryzen 9 3950X manages to edge past the Core i9-10980XE, the Ryzen scores 5570 in the single score while Intel barely manages to score 5453.

In spite of featuring 36 threads, the i9-10980XE CPU scored 51180 only while the Ryzen CPU did score a healthy 52098 with its 32 threads. This is truly amazing since a desktop-level CPU is beating a flagship HEDT CPU even though being priced less.

Even in Geekbench 5, AMD’s superiority has been noticed against the Core i9-9980XE, the Ryzen 9 scoring 1363 and 16722 in single- and multi-core tests, respectively. These scores easily beat the Core i9-9980XE’s scores of 1205 and 15823 in the same tests.

Even though being focussed to satisfy desktop users who need more cores for content creation and heavy workloads, the Ryzen 9 3950X performs better or is on par with the Cascade Lake flagship. Being a HEDT CPU the Core i9-10980XE will enjoy its own benefits that the Ryzen 9 3950X cannot provide you with.

Losing out in the memory benchmarks doesn’t matter for a consumer-level CPU but what excites me most is the performance that this new $749 CPU will give you. If this CPU can be beastly, imagine how well the 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadrippers will be. 

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