AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D

Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Ryzen 9 9955HX3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X beats the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 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 9955HX3D. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has 32 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.