AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Ryzen 9 9950X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 9950X. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has 32 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 9950X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9950X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9950X 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 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.