Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X and 2990WX
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vbetts
Moderator
Holy wow oh wow.
SniperX
Holy balls! Eye-watering numbers everywhere 😱:D
m4dn355
Freakin' awesome!
Great review Double H
MorganX
Great to see the power AMD has put in consumers hands at ridiculous prices. Unfortunately, until someone squeezes TR into ITX (never?) I'm happy with my 2700X. I actually don't need to overclock anymore.
cowie
damn right we have plenty of cores for the masses now.
vbetts
Moderator
\I want to see Doom Eternal, scaling on all 64 threads of the WX.
Or, you could do what Linus did with his 8 gamers on one rig. Give 8 VM's with their own dedicated GPU, and hard drive and memory 8 threads.
vbetts
Moderator
Any testing done with the CoolerMaster sourced Wraith Ripper?
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Works quite well, but it's rather light and bright and blocks the main x16 slot on the ASUS board. I might do a quick article on it separately. Honestly, these CPUs deserve at least LCS though.
Spider4423
On page 7. Why is the tRC 73 rather than 48 as shown in the XMP profile ?
@Hilbert Hagedoorn
RavenMaster
Seems like the 2950X will be the better CPU for gaming.
schmidtbag
For the 2990WX, I'm impressed that the single-threaded and memory benchmarks didn't suffer much considering the CCX configuration. Seems the InfinityFabric is much more efficient than I gave it credit for. As far as I'm concerned, if you could get past 3200MHz for the RAM, you'd see a pretty hefty performance increase, but I'm aware TRs don't tend to like going higher than that.
Also those overclock wattage numbers... holy crap, this is a CPU I would opt to keep at stock speeds, especially considering you don't really get much of a boost out of it...
wavetrex
Ripping in pieces every other processor before it, professional, consumer or anything else.
The most powerful CPU ever made. (so far)
schmidtbag
Maybe not unanimously - the 32-core Epycs would probably win in some benchmarks, particularly related to memory (they have 8 memory channels).
Won't be long until the 64-core Epycs come along. It's a little difficult to wrap your head around a single x86 CPU with 128 threads, especially when you consider there are quad-socket motherboards out there that should support them.
Solfaur
Insane in the membrane... what a proc, wow just wow. AMD is truly, truly back.
chispy
Great reviews as always Hilbert , good read , thank you for the very in depth reviews.
I cannot wipe my big smile off my face after reading the review of the 2990wx 😀 , that Cinebench R15 score it's nuts , wprime was so fast i believe Hilbert you did not have time to blink before it was finished 😀. What AMD has done it's absolutely marvelous and nothing short of amazing !
Incredible cpus , over at hwbot overclocking benchmarks world records are falling left and right right now with this cpus , what a beautiful day it is to be a geek , nothing but hwporn 🙂 .
@Hilbert Hagedoorn did you try to overclock the ram as high as could go and or tight timings ? Please can you try it if you have not done so and update us with the information on the scaling of memory mhz and Cas latency tight timings versus loose timings , i believe there is some great gains to be had but i do not have a cpu 2990wx to test it for myself. Thank you in advanced.
Kind Regards: Chispy
Embra
Very impressive beast of a CPU!
Srsbsns
I thought the extreme versions of timespy supported high thread counts? If so its time to upgrade the testing tool set.
tunejunky
thanks HH, thorough as usual.
even more impressive is a 4k Blender run. watch you tube content guys go nuts in the coming days and weeks.
i've seen the 2950x do 5X the speed of the i-9 (space heater).
and i'm gonna pre-order the EK monoblock as soon as they announce
H83
Mind boggling CPU! Even professional software as an hard time using all the threads available to them! But apparently there are some minor compromises that hinder performance in some unexpected ways:
- there are only two memory channels tied to 2 octacore clusters and those clusters have priority over the remaining cores without the memory channels, meaning that in a strange way this CPU behaves as 16+16 CPU where the secondary 16 cores perform worse then the first ones...
- the infinite fabric uses an absurd amount of power hindering the cores performance substantially because they have to divide the power budget available to the entire CPU! This was the most surprising aspect of this CPU.
For those wondering from where i´m taking this info, i read the Anandtech´s review first, because in this kind of hardware they are more complete than Hilbert. I´m really sorry for this small treason, will you ever forgive me Hilbert?... 🙁
Great review as always!
Darkiee
Well, time for software engineers/creators to pull up their pants!
This 32c is a beast! Not that i would need it, i´m very happy with my 2700x for years to come.
But for those, who really needs and can utilize all 64 threads, yeah, i bet some atleast are drooling, or placing orders by now.
Solid review, as always Hilbert. +1
