AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Core i9-7980XE

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X
AMD Socket SP3r2DESKTOP
3800 MHz / Cores: 8 / Aug 2017
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X
Intel Core i9-7980XE
Intel Socket 2066DESKTOP
2600 MHz / Cores: 18 / Sep 2017
Intel Core i9-7980XE

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X
    100%
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    153%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X
    100%
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    116%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X
    100%
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    189%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X

40 watts lower power draw.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i9-7980XE

16% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 89% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 53% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i9-7980XE

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i9-7980XE

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i9-7980XE

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i9-7980XE

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900XIntel Core i9-7980XE
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
XFR
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0
Boost 3.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900XIntel Core i9-7980XE
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Kabylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsSkylake-X
Release DateAug 2017vsSep 2017

Cores

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900XIntel Core i9-7980XE
Cores8vs18
Threads16vs36
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900XIntel Core i9-7980XE
L1 Cache96 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs1024 KB (per core)
L3 Cache32768 KBvs25344 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900XIntel Core i9-7980XE
SocketAMD Socket SP3r2vsIntel Socket 2066
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageuPGAvsFC-LGA2066
Die Size384mm²vs428mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900XIntel Core i9-7980XE
Cpu Frequency3800 MHzvs2600 MHz
Turbo Clock4000 MHzvs4400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP125 Wvs165 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X
    4400 points
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    5280 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X
    40796 points
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    67392 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X
    166
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    194

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X (simulated)
    1792.33
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    3404

points - higher is better