AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Intel Core i9-9900K
Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X on one side and the Intel Core i9-9900K on the other side. The first is dedicated to the desktop sector, It has 32 cores, 64 threads, a maximum frequency of 4.5GHz. The second is used on the desktop segment, it has a total of 8 cores, 16 threads, its turbo frequency is set to 5.0 GHz. The following table also compares the lithography, the number of transistors (if indicated), the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the date of first broadcast, the maximum number of PCIe lines, the values obtained in Geekbench 4 and Cinebench R15, as well as an average price.
Specifications:
| Processor | |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X |
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Intel Core i9-9900K |
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| Market | |
Desktop |
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Desktop |
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| Family | |
Zen 2 |
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Coffee Lake |
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| Part number(s), S-Spec | |
100000011WOF |
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BX80684I99900K,
BXC80684I99900K,
CM8068403873914,
SRELS, QQPP |
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| Release date | |
Q4 2019 |
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Q4 2018 |
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| Lithography | |
7 nm FinFET |
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14 nm++ |
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| Transistors | |
23,250,000,000 |
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- |
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| Cores | |
32 |
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8 |
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| Threads | |
64 |
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16 |
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| Base frequency | |
3.7 GHz |
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3.6 GHz |
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| Turbo frequency | |
4.5 GHz |
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5.0 GHz |
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| Cache memory | |
128 MB |
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16 MB |
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| Max memory capacity | |
512 GB |
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128 GB |
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| Memory types | |
DDR4-3200 |
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DDR4-2666 |
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| Max PCIe lanes | |
64 |
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16 |
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| TDP | |
280 W |
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95 W |
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| GPU integrated graphics | |
None |
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Intel UHD Graphics 630 |
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| GPU execution units | |
- |
| | |
23 |
| |
| GPU shading units | |
- |
| | |
184 |
| |
| GPU clock rate | |
- |
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1,150 MHz |
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| GPU FP32 floating point | |
- |
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423.2 GFLOPS |
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| Socket | |
sTRX4 |
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LGA 1151 |
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| Cinebench R15 single thread | |
210 |
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218 |
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| Cinebench R15 multi-thread | |
7,420 |
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2,065 |
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| Cinebench R20 single thread | |
520 |
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500 |
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| Cinebench R20 multi-thread | |
16,990 |
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4,910 |
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| PassMark single thread | |
2,980 |
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2,900 |
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| PassMark CPU Mark | |
48,100 |
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20,170 |
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(Windows 64-bit)
Geekbench 4 single core | |
5,674 |
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6,336 |
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(Windows 64-bit)
Geekbench 4 multi-core | |
69,621 |
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36,463 |
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(Windows)
Geekbench 5 single core | |
1,277 |
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1,324 |
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(Windows)
Geekbench 5 multi-core | |
22,797 |
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8,718 |
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(SGEMM)
GFLOPS performance | |
1,859 GFLOPS |
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588 GFLOPS |
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(Multi-core / price performance)
Performance / price ratio | |
27 pts / $ |
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68 pts / $ |
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(Multi-core / watt performance)
Performance / watt ratio | |
249 pts / W |
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384 pts / W |
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(Multi-core / global cost performance)
Performance / global cost ratio | |
21 pts / $ |
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45 pts / $ |
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| Note | |
4.6 / 5 |
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4.6 / 5 |
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| Reviews | |
135 |
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3,304 |
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| Amazon | |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X |
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Intel Core i9-9900K |
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(Average)
New price on Amazon | |
- |
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$540 |
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(Average)
Used price on Amazon | |
- |
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- |
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| eBay | |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X |
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Intel Core i9-9900K |
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(Average)
New price on eBay | |
$2,560 |
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$610 |
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(Average)
Used price on eBay | |
- |
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$470 |
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Price: prices can change over time. For technical reasons, they are not updated in real time. This is only an average of the results on the first page of each product, whether new or used. Shipping costs have not been integrated. To know the final price of the product, please go to the form of the shop. If no price is indicated, it means that we did not find any offers during the last update.
We can better compare what are the technical differences between the two processors. The processor AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has more cores, the turbo frequency of Intel Core i9-9900K is bigger, that the thermal dissipation power of Intel Core i9-9900K is less. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X was designed earlier.
Ratios: we first consider the average for the new price if available, the average for the used price otherwise. Performance / global cost ratio: This is the ratio of performance on Geekbench 4, divided by the cost of the product + the cost of electricity over 5 years for a duration of use of 13 hours per day.
Performances :
Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench 4.
In single core, the difference is -4%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 259%.
Cinebench R15 evaluates the performance of CPU calculations by restoring a photorealistic 3D scene. The scene has 2,000 objects, 300,000 polygons, uses sharp and fuzzy reflections, bright areas, shadows, procedural shaders, antialiasing, and so on. The faster the rendering of the scene is created, the more powerful the PC is, with a high number of points.
In single core, the difference is 4%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 246%.
Cinebench R20 is a multi-platform test software which allows to evaluate the hardware capacities of a device such as a computer, a tablet, a server. This version of Cinebench takes into account recent developments in processors with multiple cores and the latest improvements in rendering techniques. The evaluation is ultimately even more relevant.
In single core, the difference is 3%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 138%.
PassMark is a benchmarking software that performs several performance tests including prime numbers, integers, floating point, compression, physics, extended instructions, encoding, sorting. The higher the score is, the higher is the device capacity.
On Windows 64-bit:
In single core, the difference is -10%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 91%.
On Linux 64-bit:
In single core, the difference is -8%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 213%.
Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.
On Windows:
In single core, the difference is -4%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 161%.
On Linux:
In single core, the difference is 0%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 206%.
On macOS:
In single core, the difference is -8%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 124%.
Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.
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