AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs Intel Core i9-10900

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 12 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 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

$ 199.99
$ 190.78 significantly less expensive
$ 390.77

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6657 points
7582 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6855 points
8692 points
26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6596 points
7207 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6581 points
7099 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8387 points
12127 points
44% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.91 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
164.66 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6100 points
7743 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1097 points
1567 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7137 points
8309 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1179 points
1714 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
20% slightly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
20% slightly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.2 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
65 W
176% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1152 KiB
79% significantly more L1 cache
640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
139% significantly more L2 cache
2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

212th of 1,089
164th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
10th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs Core i9-10900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900 beats the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-10900 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10900 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1920X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900. The Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 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 Threadripper 1920X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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