AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Intel Core i9-14900F

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 24 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-14900F

Price

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$ 1000.49

$ 473.14

$ 527.36 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12902 points

13852 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9051 points

14835 points

63% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14301 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

13629 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14990 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

13729 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14014 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

12965 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

545.75 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

316.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13168 points

18063 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1679 points

2847 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

89% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

5.8 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

32 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB

255% significantly more L3 cache

36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

43rd of 1,089

34th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Core i9-14900F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-14900F performs better than the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900F. Despite this, the Core i9-14900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900F.

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 3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.