AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Core i9-14900KS

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 16 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 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
$ 592.49
$ 257.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7764 points
17932 points
130% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7302 points
17174 points
135% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7916 points
18250 points
130% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7971 points
18506 points
132% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9121 points
16117 points
76% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

262.92 points
515.80 points
96% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7983 points
23144 points
189% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points
3237 points
174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
33% slightly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
6.2 GHz
55% significantly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
32 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
36 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 1,089
3rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Core i9-14900KS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900KS is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. 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 Core i9-14900KS has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has more threads than the Core i9-14900KS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-14900KS has a significantly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. The Core i9-14900KS also has slightly 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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