The Sandy Bridge Core i7 3960X Benchmarked Against Today's Six-Core / 12 Thread AMD/Intel CPUs

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 13 September 2019 at 03:32 PM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 37 Comments.
Core i7 3960X vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs. Core i7 8700K
Core i7 3960X vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs. Core i7 8700K

Today's six-core / twelve-thread processors were across the board much faster than the aging Core i7 3960X.

Core i7 3960X vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs. Core i7 8700K
Core i7 3960X vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs. Core i7 8700K

Even with Perl script performance, the Ryzen 5 3600X and Core i7 8700K were much faster than Sandy Bridge.

Core i7 3960X vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs. Core i7 8700K

One area where the Intel performance hasn't improved much is the context switching speed, which is much higher now as a result of all the Spectre/Meltdown/Zombieload/etc mitigations.

Core i7 3960X vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs. Core i7 8700K
Core i7 3960X vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs. Core i7 8700K

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