AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Core i9-9900K

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Core i9-9900K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X beats the Core i9-9900K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K 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 i9-9900K. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-9900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9900K 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 i9-9900K. 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.