AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX vs AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX vs RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 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 AI MAX+ 395 has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395. According to our data, the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX and RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 have the same clock speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.