AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Core i9-10900

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 16 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

$ 850.00
$ 390.77
$ 459.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7764 points
2% slightly better overall score
7582 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7302 points
8692 points
19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7916 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
7207 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7971 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
7099 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9121 points
12127 points
32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

262.92 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
164.66 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7426 points
7743 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
1567 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7983 points
8309 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points
1714 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
60% significantly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
60% significantly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.2 GHz
30% 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

1536 KiB
139% significantly more L1 cache
640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
220% 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

155th 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 1950X vs Core i9-10900 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900 performs better than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has significantly more cores than the Core i9-10900. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has 16 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-10900. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900. The Core i9-10900 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900. The Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 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 1950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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