AMD Ryzen 9 7900 vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 12 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

$ 407.55
$ 487.44 significantly less expensive
$ 894.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13078 points
31% slightly better overall score
9951 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13206 points
83% significantly better gaming score
7212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13028 points
17% slightly better multitasking score
11058 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13011 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
11834 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

394.92 points
397.75 points
0.72% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16762 points
109% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
8007 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2797 points
128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1222 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16768 points
131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7241 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2868 points
131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1240 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
48
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.70 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
28% 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

768 KiB
2304 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
Identical
12 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
Identical
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

40th of 1,089
91st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
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 9 7900 vs Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900 is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7900 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 7900 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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