Comparison of AMD Ryzen 9 3950X and Intel Core i9-10980XE

Attribute	AMD Ryzen 9 3950X ×	Intel Core i9-10980XE ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Ryzen	Intel Core i9
Model	AMD Ryzen 9 3950X	Intel Core i9-10980XE
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	16	18
Frequency (GHz)	3.5	3
CPU Threads	32	36
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.7	4.8
Turbo (16 Cores) (GHz)	4	-
Turbo (18 Cores) (GHz)	-	4.3
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	-	DDR4-2933
Max. Memory (GB)	128	256
PCIe lanes	20	48
PCIe version	4.0	3.0
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	2	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2019	2019
Technology (Nm)	7	14
Socket	AM4	LGA 2066
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	64	24
Architecture	Zen 2	Cascade Lake
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	95	86
TDP (PL2) (W)	142	-
TDP (PL1) (W)	105	165
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	34,024	34,165
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,310	1,174
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	14,322	15,841
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	217	211
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	3,897	3,800
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	531	480
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	9,148	8,848
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	85.4	74.9
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)	1,371	1,191
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)	24,050	24,309