AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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
$ 399.61
$ 450.39 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7764 points
5% slightly better overall score
7335 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7302 points
8938 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7916 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
6797 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7971 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score
6646 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9121 points
24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7297 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

262.92 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
209.61 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7426 points
10897 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
2052 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7983 points
11047 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points
2117 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.40 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.5 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
105 W
71% 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
200% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
96 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

155th of 1,089
172nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X.

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.

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