AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10823 points
2% slightly better overall score
10538 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7475 points
9595 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12159 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
10967 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13149 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score
11265 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

458.04 points
468.88 points
2% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

32
100% significantly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

64
100% significantly more threads
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.4 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

250 W
55 W
354% 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

3072 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
1024 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
Identical
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 1,114
80th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper 2000 Series
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

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