AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Core Ultra 9 285 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X beats the Core Ultra 9 285 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has slightly more cores with 32 cores whereas the Core Ultra 9 285 has 24 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 285. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 285. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285 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 Ultra 9 285.

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