AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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

$ 235.99
$ 78.50 significantly less expensive
$ 314.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5786 points
13554 points
134% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7050 points
13457 points
90% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5345 points
13583 points
154% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5212 points
13587 points
160% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

140.77 points
412.82 points
193% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5474 points
17426 points
218% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1162 points
2844 points
144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5997 points
17750 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1191 points
2946 points
147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
4.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.6 GHz
40% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
170 W
5% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
Identical
768 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
12 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

269th of 1,089
36th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Ryzen 9 7900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. The Ryzen 9 7900X outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1900X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. The Ryzen 9 7900X also has significantly more 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 Threadripper 1900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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