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WE'RE BACK! Threadripper 2950X Performance Review Comment Thread

it's an interesting CPU and interesting just how badly it performs in single threaded tasks, despite a 4.4ghz OC for up to 4 cores, vs Intel's boost to 4.7ghz on a single core from their lowly 8700K.

any plans for reviews on the ThreadRipper workstation CPU? Guru3D's review of the 2990WX shows some amazing numbers due to it's core count! :D
 
Yay a new review! Yup that 2990WX looks perfect for a couple of my clients who need highly clocked, highly threaded CPU's for simulation and rendering tasks, and a nice upgrade for their current 1950X machines...
 
The way I am looking at the HEDT fight is this, Intel still wins in performance more often than not, but their pricing is a problem. With AMD's current pricing it is a lot harder to recommend the Intel when the difference in performance is minor but the price difference is major.


One thing that surprises me a bit is that the 8700K beat it in 8 of the tests (not including any of the game ones), I honestly wasn't really expecting that. If AMD could just get their per core performance up a bit, they would be able to deal an outstanding blow to Intel. I'm just glad that there is competition in the CPU arena again. Course all Intel would have to do at this point is do a price drop and people sitting on the fence would stay with Intel.
 
ipaine, it was only in single threaded tasks that Intel generally beat AMD...multi-threaded, but for Adobe, AMD smokes Intel.

that said, most of these are synthetic benchmarks, so some will be optimized for one CPU over the other. AMD has a lot of catching up to do being their previous offerings were abysmal and nobody in their right mind would have chosen an AMD FX CPU over the Intel Core.
 
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Mr. Friendly said:
it's an interesting CPU and interesting just how badly it performs in single threaded tasks, despite a 4.4ghz OC for up to 4 cores, vs Intel's boost to 4.7ghz on a single core from their lowly 8700K.

any plans for reviews on the ThreadRipper workstation CPU? Guru3D's review of the 2990WX shows some amazing numbers due to it's core count! :D
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I'm going to throw this out there. I think Guru3D showed why you SHOULDN'T buy this for many multi-threaded rendering tests. This issue is they utilized their standard benchmarking methodology on a CPU that's targeted at a very, very specific subset and none of those applications were utilized. As a result you had the 2950X essentially spanking the 2990WX in many situations.

I actually didn't press AMD for their 2990WX since I darn well knew our current suite of tests wouldn't have been up to the task. Hence why I mention we are updating our suite to include HEDT-centric tests since the current benchmarks just don't cut it. :sad:

Basically someone who is in the market for one of the WX series for its intended use is poorly served by the current benchmarking environment.
 
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ipaine, it was only in single threaded tasks that Intel generally beat AMD...multi-threaded, but for Adobe, AMD smokes Intel.

that said, most of these are synthetic benchmarks, so some will be optimized for one CPU over the other. AMD has a lot of catching up to do being their previous offerings were abysmal and nobody in their right mind would have chosen an AMD FX CPU over the Intel Core.
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It really depends on perspective. From a cost standpoint, the 2950X spanks a similarly-priced Intel processor all over the board. But when you compare the two 32-thread parts, the 2950X becomes a synthetic benchmark junky that falls behind in real world environments.
 
Mr. Friendly said:
ipaine, it was only in single threaded tasks that Intel generally beat AMD...multi-threaded, but for Adobe, AMD smokes Intel.

that said, most of these are synthetic benchmarks, so some will be optimized for one CPU over the other. AMD has a lot of catching up to do being their previous offerings were abysmal and nobody in their right mind would have chosen an AMD FX CPU over the Intel Core.
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Well the first AIDA test Intel wins, 7zip, blender, 3ds max, handbrake, POV Ray, WinRAR, and like you said in Adobe it wins. And all of those are multi-thread/multi-core aware. So more often than not Intel is winning, but like I said, that price premium to do it is just too large. You factor in the cost and the performance and right now at the top end it would be hard to recommend Intel, but if they adjust their pricing (seems doubtful) then they would be the one to go with.
 
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