AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs AMD EPYC 7543P

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 24 core CPU vs AMD EPYC 7003 Series 32 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1000.49
$ 894.51 significantly less expensive
$ 1895.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12902 points
272% significantly better overall score
3463 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9051 points
82% significantly better gaming score
4960 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14301 points
379% significantly better multitasking score
2982 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14990 points
423% significantly better heavy workload score
2866 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

545.75 points
599% significantly higher Blender score
78.01 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13168 points
15287 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1679 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1609 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

48
64
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
35% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

280 W
225 W
24% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
8
100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1536 KiB
2048 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
16 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
256 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

43rd of 1,089
488th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
EPYC 7003 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs EPYC 7543P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X is faster than the EPYC 7543P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 7543P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the EPYC 7543P has slightly more cores with 32 cores compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X that has 24 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 7543P. Also, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The EPYC 7543P outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 3960X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the EPYC 7543P has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. The EPYC 7543P also has significantly more 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 3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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