AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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
$ 455.05
$ 394.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7764 points
10982 points
41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7302 points
13108 points
79% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7916 points
10252 points
29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7971 points
10031 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9121 points
10082 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

262.92 points
325.43 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7983 points
18346 points
129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points
3336 points
182% 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
4.7 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.2 GHz
30% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
120 W
49% 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
139% significantly more L1 cache
640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
Identical
8 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
70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D also has significantly 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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