AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 32 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1699.99
$ 569.05
$ 1130.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

15743 points
15772 points
0.18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9436 points
15040 points
59% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

18087 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
16008 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

19374 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score
16094 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16764 points
22% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
13700 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

694.97 points
48% significantly higher Blender score
466.69 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13763 points
20191 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1662 points
3294 points
98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

32
166% significantly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

64
166% significantly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
4.4 GHz
18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.5 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

280 W
120 W
133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

2048 KiB
113% significantly more L1 cache
960 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
12 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
Identical
128 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

20th of 1,089
19th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Ryzen 9 9900X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has 32 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 3970X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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