AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series 16 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

$ 314.49
$ 581.82 significantly less expensive
$ 896.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13554 points
4% slightly better overall score
12933 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13457 points
26% slightly better gaming score
10680 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13583 points
13704 points
0.89% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13587 points
13985 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.82 points
428.80 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17426 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
14437 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2844 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2022 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17750 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
15788 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2123 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed
4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz
24% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W
64% significantly lower TDP
280 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
8
300% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
1024 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
Identical
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

36th of 1,089
41st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Ryzen 9 7900X vs Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900X beats the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7900X has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 7900X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX 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 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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