AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX vs Xeon Platinum 8170M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX is faster than the Xeon Platinum 8170M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Platinum 8170M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has slightly more cores with 26 cores whereas the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has 24 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Platinum 8170M. In terms of cache, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M.

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 2970WX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.