AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 24 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 12 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
$ 407.55
$ 592.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12902 points
1% slightly better overall score
12696 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9051 points
12933 points
42% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14301 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
12616 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14990 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
12600 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14014 points
25% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
11128 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

545.75 points
38% slightly higher Blender score
394.92 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13136 points
16762 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1646 points
2797 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13168 points
16768 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1679 points
2868 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
100% significantly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

48
100% significantly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.4 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

280 W
65 W
330% 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

1536 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
768 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
Identical
12 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

42nd of 1,089
45th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Ryzen 9 7900 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900 beats the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7900. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has 24 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7900. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7900. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 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 3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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