AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Core i9-7900X

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Core i9-7900X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X beats the Core i9-7900X in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-7900X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has significantly more cores than the Core i9-7900X. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has 16 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-7900X. It also has more threads than the Core i9-7900X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7900X. Despite this, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-7900X outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1950X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.