Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX vs Ryzen 9 5900XT comparison
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX beats the Ryzen 9 5900XT in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX has 32 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900XT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5900XT outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 2990WX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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