AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Core i9-7980XE

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Core i9-7980XE specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7980XE 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7980XE has slightly more cores than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has 18 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7980XE. The Core i9-7980XE 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.