Threadripper 3970X vs. Core i9-10980XE vs. Ryzen 9 3950X

Last month we looked at affordable APUs; this time, we’re going in the opposite direction, and pitting the biggest and baddest CPUs around against each other. These are the high-end desktop parts, the big boys, the costly but high-powered processors that many of us will never even hold in our hands. These CPUs have more cores, higher clock speeds, and monstrous power draws compared to your average desktop processor, making short work of CPU-heavy tasks and benchmarks. But which one is best? Let’s take a look.

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Which of these HEDT processors is the best value? Well, it’s not the new Threadripper. Yes, the 3970X has some entertainingly over-the-top specs and tends to top most