AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 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
$ 667.80
$ 182.20 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7764 points
16302 points
109% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7302 points
14590 points
99% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7916 points
16961 points
114% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7971 points
17329 points
117% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9121 points
17230 points
88% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

262.92 points
643.21 points
144% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7983 points
22134 points
177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points
3395 points
187% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
4.3 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.7 GHz
42% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
170 W
5% slightly 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
20% slightly more L1 cache
1280 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
16 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
128 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 1,089
14th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2025 March

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 9 9950X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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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