AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Core i7-9700K

Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Core i7-9700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X beats the Core i7-9700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700K. Despite this, the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700K outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1900X thanks to a 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 1900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700K. The Ryzen Threadripper 1900X also has slightly 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 Threadripper 1900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.