Product Compare

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X vs Intel Core i7 6900K

	CPU AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X	CPU Intel Core i7 6900K
General Parameters
Release Date	Aug 2018	May 2016
Manufacturer	AMD	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Zen+	Broadwell E
Integrated Graphics	N/A	N/A
Processor Number		i7-6900K
Package
Transistor Count	9.6 billions
Manufacturing Process	12 nm	14 nm
Socket	sTR4	LGA-2011-3
Power Consumption	180 W	140 W
Peak Operating Temperature	68 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	16	8
Performance Core Threads	32	16
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.5 GHz	3.2 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.4 GHz	3.7 GHz
Total Core Count	16	8
Total Thread Count	32	16
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	35x	32x
L1 Cache	96 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	512 K per core	256 K per core
L3 Cache	32 MB shared	20 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-2933	DDR4-2133
Max Memory Size	2048 GB	128 GB
Max Memory Channels	4	4
Max Memory Bandwidth	87.42 GB/s	76.8 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	No
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	3.0	3.0
PCIe Lanes	60	40
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1221	1286
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	9103	7470