AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs AMD EPYC 7543P

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs EPYC 7543P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 7543P 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has a slightly higher clock speed than the EPYC 7543P. Also, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The EPYC 7543P outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 3970X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The EPYC 7543P also has significantly more 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 3970X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.