AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700F

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2000 Series 24 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 894.99
$ 250.17
$ 644.82 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9951 points
5% slightly better overall score
9424 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7212 points
11316 points
56% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11058 points
25% slightly better multitasking score
8790 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11834 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score
8596 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

397.75 points
72% significantly higher Blender score
229.92 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7241 points
12976 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1240 points
2647 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
200% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

48
200% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
4.10 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

250 W
65 W
284% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

91st of 1,089
101st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper 2000 Series
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October
2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX vs Ryzen 7 8700F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX beats the Ryzen 7 8700F in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8700F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8700F outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX thanks to a significantly 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 Threadripper 2970WX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 8700F. The Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 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 2970WX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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