AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Core i9-14900K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900K beats the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has slightly more cores with 32 cores whereas the Core i9-14900K has 24 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-14900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900K. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-14900K.

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.