AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Intel Core i7-14700F

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 32 core CPU vs Intel 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1699.99
$ 301.43
$ 1398.56 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

15743 points
13% slightly better overall score
13879 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9436 points
14674 points
55% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

18087 points
32% slightly better multitasking score
13663 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

19374 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score
13676 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16764 points
38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
12064 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

694.97 points
135% significantly higher Blender score
294.87 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13763 points
16387 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1662 points
2697 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

32
60% significantly more cores
20

Threads

Number of logical processing units

64
128% significantly more threads
28

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
76% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.4 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
28 MiB
75% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
287% significantly more L3 cache
33 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

20th of 1,089
33rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Core i7 (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
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Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Core i7-14700F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700F performs better than the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has significantly more cores with 32 cores compared to the Core i7-14700F that has 20 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-14700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700F. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700F has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700F.

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 3970X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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