AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2000 Series 32 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10823 points
16302 points
50% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7475 points
14590 points
95% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12159 points
16961 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13149 points
17329 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

458.04 points
643.21 points
40% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7606 points
22134 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1205 points
3395 points
181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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
4.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.7 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

250 W
170 W
47% 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
139% significantly more L1 cache
1280 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
128 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

73rd of 1,089
14th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper 2000 Series
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August
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 2990WX vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D beats the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX has significantly more cores with 32 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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 2990WX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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