AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs Intel Core i9-9900K

Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs Core i9-9900K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X performs better than the Core i9-9900K. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i9-9900K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9900K 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 i9-9900K. The Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 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 1920X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.