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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X

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AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 2920X comes with 12 real cores, plus SMT, resulting in a total thread count of 24. At $650, the TR 2920X isn't much more expensive than Intel's Core i9-9900K, which loses against Threadripper in multi-threaded workloads.

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Great value for professionals who want great multithreading power but don't want a server.
 
Naah, I wouldn't say the "requires quad channel" as a con, Intel HEDT has the same thing. And at least we have more memory slots. :D
 
More interesting thing is the 1950x's drop slightly further - I can find one for £500 used It's crazy though I've got a x299 setup

Chloe Price said:
And at least we have more memory slots. :D
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Sorry but that's trash talk, my x299 gaming carbon here has 8 ram slots. What board are you referring to then? I'm curious. Although threadripper is insane.
 
great to see my - often forgotten in tests - i9 7900X right there in the tops
 
erixx said:
great to see my - often forgotten in tests - i9 7900X right there in the tops
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No offense, but, in the tops where?
 
Would like to see comparisons of these HEDT processors being used to game while streaming/recording, and which ones allow highest FPS while doing so, and which ones can encode the highest detail settings while gaming.
 
Basard said:
No offense, but, in the tops where?
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Skylake-x isn't as bad as people made out - it's poor value but that's not what it's intended for which is single threaded workloads.
 
7900x does pretty OK ... As with everything else, all application dependent ... Best bet before purchasing is confirm that the CPU / platform of choice actually perform better in the specific applications you are using. Even within applications, one CPU may be great in one operation and terrible in another.

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Not gonna lie, Really liking the 2920X... evaluating switching standard workstations over to Threadripper with ECC at this sweet price/performance ratio.
 
Shatun_Bear said:
It is terrible for its price, which is the most important thing.
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What? To you? Well your not 100% of the market, which is why intel's profits have rose recently. I'm no intel fanboy myself, but the comment was just too silly - AMD is excellent for those who want value and performance whilst intel gives performance at a premium. It's your choice really.

yakk said:
Not gonna lie, Really liking the 2920X... evaluating switching standard workstations over to Threadripper with ECC at this sweet price/performance ratio.
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It is awesome value, that'd be an awesome build, don't forget the 1st gen threadrippers though - with this gen out, they may drop in price making the 1950x a better buy for some.
 
damric said:
Would like to see comparisons of these HEDT processors being used to game while streaming/recording, and which ones allow highest FPS while doing so, and which ones can encode the highest detail settings while gaming.
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Educated guess: when streaming to twitch, there would be 0 difference, due to twitch's restrictions on upload quality and the limit on upstream bandwidth. Games do not use 8 cores equally, so there is plenty of CPU time left on a ryzen 7 chip to do encoding.

Streaming to other sites or recording is a different matter, but even then ryzen is so under-utilized in games I doubt there would be an appreciable difference, or if there were, it wouldnt justify the much higher price of thread-ripper.
 
One might wonder if with these CPUs some CPU mining couldnt have a comeback.. Cause thats a lot of cores.
 
erixx said:
java, database pages. very important for my job, I didn't look any further :p
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Ah, I see.... TR's been tearin it up, but everybody has their needs and time is money.
 
Xx Tek Tip xX said:
It is awesome value, that'd be an awesome build, don't forget the 1st gen threadrippers though - with this gen out, they may drop in price making the 1950x a better buy for some.
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For a personal rig I completely agree with the 1950x. However in this case I'd be looking at a deployment of maybe a dozen stations at a time. The 2nd generation Ryzen products look to be less finicky for support & maintenance and similar for 2nd Gen. Threadripper in a production environment.
 
I assume that 2970WX review is also coming up, since it's in a lot of charts? That one seems the true HEDT king, seeing how 2990WX can hobble with the gimped memory config more often than not.
 
Out of curiosity, does SuperPi have a purpose? Is there a real world work application that does something similar to it?

It just seems like it's ancient code that favors intel by a significant margin regardless of clock speed(7900x vs 2920x/2700x). The old/outdated code is especially apparent when comparing its results to the other two number crunching applications (wPrime & veracrypt), that scale well with both clock speed & cores.
 
Good review and an excellent read.
I have an i9-7900X system sitting here, but if I didn't I would seriously consider this TR part. It's a real "sweet-spot" CPU.
 
The high core count is not enough to make Threadripper 2920X a clear winner in the "sweet spot" CPU category, its performance is very workload dependent. Overall, the i9-9900K is outperforms it with just 8 cores and two memory channels.

Still, it will be interesting to see these compared to Skylake-X refresh coming in ~2 weeks.
 
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