Tuesday, June 19th 2018
First Benchmarks, CPU-Z Screenshots of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 32-core CPU Surface
First benchmarks and CPU-Z screenshots of AMD's upcoming Ryzen Threadripper 32-core monster have surfaced, courtesy of HKEPC. The on-time-for-launch (as AMD puts it) 12 nm "Pinnacle Ridge" processor has apparently been christened "Threadripper 2990X", which does make sense - should AMD be thinking of keeping the 2920X moniker for 12 cores and 1950X for 16-cores, then it follows a 20-core 2960X, a 24-core 2970X, a 28-core 2980X, and the aforementioned 32-core 2990X. whether AMD would want to offer such a tiered lineup of HEDT processors, however, is another matter entirely, and certainly open for discussion - too much of a good thing can actually happen, at least where ASP of the Threadripper portfolio is concerned.
On the CPU-Z screenshot, the 2990X is running at 3.4 GHz base with up to 4.0 GHz XFR, and carries a 250 W TDP - a believable and very impressive achievement, testament to the 12 nm process and the low leakage it apparently produces. The chip was then overclocked up to 4.2 GHz on all cores, which caused for some thermal throttling, since performance was lower than when the chip was clocked at just 4 GHz on all cores. Gains on this particular piece of silicon were reserved up to 4.12 GHz - the jump to 4.2 GHz must have required another bump in voltage that led to the aforementioned throttling. At 4.12 GHz, the chip scored 6,399 points in Cinebench - a remarkable achievement.
Sources:
HKEPC, via Videocardz
On the CPU-Z screenshot, the 2990X is running at 3.4 GHz base with up to 4.0 GHz XFR, and carries a 250 W TDP - a believable and very impressive achievement, testament to the 12 nm process and the low leakage it apparently produces. The chip was then overclocked up to 4.2 GHz on all cores, which caused for some thermal throttling, since performance was lower than when the chip was clocked at just 4 GHz on all cores. Gains on this particular piece of silicon were reserved up to 4.12 GHz - the jump to 4.2 GHz must have required another bump in voltage that led to the aforementioned throttling. At 4.12 GHz, the chip scored 6,399 points in Cinebench - a remarkable achievement.
70 Comments on First Benchmarks, CPU-Z Screenshots of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 32-core CPU Surface
Go for a quad core @4,5Ghz or a 32cores@ 2Ghz. Really 32 cores @4ghz is non sense for me, just an elegant way to produce heat. Now you say gaming, alright but which game do support more than 6or 8 cores ? And even it was, linux or windows are not designed for many cores. Both AMD and Intrl try to put a lot of core but really software needs to keep up with this.
Linus Tech tips did a build with 4 or 5 water cooled Nano's just to have 5 different workstations all hooked onto one mother machine.
Those who really need the computing power can put such baby's to work. There is market for it. And no, consumers dont need a 32 cores / 64 threads CPU. It would be idle for 9/10th of it's life.
But this is a cheaper approach to a system with multiple chips in it. Remember that some licences need to be paid for per psysical processor and not core count.
Even using a sealed unit increases risk, the oops factor with that unit = $$$$$
Those don't leak if properly installed, but I wouldn't consider it for my multi-thousand dollar rig either.
As a matter of fact, I wouldn't use it on any PC in my house.
I no fan boy for either side, I own what I own good or bad. I asked you legit questions and you blew them off and have the nerve to accuse me of being angry? LOL I admit I was trying to be sarcastic but someone left this brick out and I tripped over it in a time of need.You are right about one thing, Software developers need to step their game and learn to do more multi-thread programming. There are a few games that do some multi-core, not a lot. Game Developers are not trained well enough to do that kind of performance work, most prolly never went to school and just did internships to learn.
intels 24.core beat TR2 32.core for sure. and intel have much mower TDP.
..also where you need more than 6-core gpu?? its waiste of money,heat and power.
...also #2, you need for must with that watercool,and its out of this days.
rendering,cinbench and so you must use intels cpu,they are much powerfull,and support much higher mes and lower timing.
all 3dmarks done intels cpus, not seen there amd cpus...few only,bu not top 25.
edit: I'm pretty sure that you're exactly that dude, since that avatar of yours seems too familiar. It's hard to understand what you're saying, doesn't matter is the text in Finnish or English.
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www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/1950x-goes-full-blown-128gb-ram.244400/
Edit:
For some theorycrafting, Zen's power consumption is a known figure and so far it has scaled linearly with the amount of cores for Threadrippers. GamersNexus has a table/graph for the R7 2700X (alongside the slightly less efficient R7 1700): www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3290-exponential-ryzen-voltage-frequency-curve
Both from my own experience as well as results in reviews and forum threads, it's accurate enough.
4 such dies in the 32-core threadripper will use 4x as much power.
4.0 GHz: 10.5 A@12 V - 126 W *4 = 504 W
4.1 GHz: 12.9 A@12 V - 154,8 W *4 = 619,2 W
Definitely not precise and will have variance for each CPU but should be close enough for the range.