AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Core i7-10700K

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 16 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 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

$ 850.00
$ 380.99
$ 469.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7764 points
15% slightly better overall score
6751 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7302 points
8301 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7916 points
27% slightly better multitasking score
6232 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7971 points
30% slightly better heavy workload score
6087 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9121 points
25% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7292 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

262.92 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
177.76 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7426 points
8022 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
1655 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7983 points
8131 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points
1719 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.8 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.1 GHz
27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
125 W
44% 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

1536 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

155th of 1,089
207th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
10th Generation Core i7

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
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Core i7-10700K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700K beats the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-10700K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. The Core i7-10700K outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. The Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 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 1950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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