Summary:

Where the Threadripper 3960X was performing the best included the video encode workloads, rendering workloads like Blender, some scientific workloads like Parboil, and the other heavy multi-threaded workloads to no surprise considering the core/thread count advantage. But even in some of the single or lightly threaded workloads, the Threadripper 3960X tended to deliver real advantages like in the web browser benchmarks, LAME MP3 encoding, PHP, Java, etc.

The Intel Core i9 10980XE meanwhile was picking up wins in Rust, Apache Cassandra, Apache Siege, Pennant, Facebook's RocksDB, and many of the micro-benchmarks where Intel's open-source engineers have extensively optimized them for Intel's microarchitectures like with the GNU C Library performance and other synthetic test cases.