AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

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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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

Price

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$ 1000.49

$ 799.99

$ 200.50 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12902 points

13385 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9051 points

13203 points

45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14301 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

13450 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14990 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

13474 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

545.75 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

398.41 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13136 points

17603 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1646 points

2784 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13168 points

17560 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1679 points

2866 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

4.40 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

5.6 GHz

24% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

280 W

120 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

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

Identical

128 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

42nd of 1,089

38th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Ryzen 9 7900X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.