AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2000 Series 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 276.36
$ 618.63 significantly less expensive
$ 894.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10741 points
7% slightly better overall score
9951 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12741 points
76% significantly better gaming score
7212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10051 points
11058 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9837 points
11834 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

266.15 points
397.75 points
49% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14475 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
8007 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2771 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1222 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14835 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7241 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2879 points
132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1240 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
48
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
26% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
284% significantly lower TDP
250 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
2304 KiB
350% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

74th of 1,089
91st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Ryzen Threadripper 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 7700 vs Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX is faster than the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7700. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has 24 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 7700 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700. The Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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