AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X beats the Ryzen 9 7950X3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has 32 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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.