AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X s

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD 32 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points
20992 points
230% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points
12733 points
66% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points
24079 points
307% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points
25822 points
346% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points
1298.86 points
620% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
32
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
64
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
4.00 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
32 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
128 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

233rd of 1,089
2nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 7 3700X vs Ryzen Threadripper 7970X s specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 7970X s beats the Ryzen 7 3700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 7970X s has significantly more cores with 32 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 7970X s has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 7970X s has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3700X. The Ryzen Threadripper 7970X s also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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