Wednesday, August 9th 2017
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X Overclocked to 4.1 GHz With Liquid Cooling
Redditor "callingthewolf" has posted what is an awe-inspiring result for AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (that's an interesting username for sure; let's hope that's the only similarity to the boy who cried wolf.) The 16-core, 32-thread processor stands as the likely taker for the HEDT performance crown (at least until Intel's 14-core plus HEDT CPUs make their debut on the X299 platform.) With that many cores, highly thread-aware applications naturally look to see tremendous increases in performance from any frequency increase. In this case, the 1950X's base 3.4 GHz were upped to a whopping 4.0 GHz (@ 1.25 V core) and 4.1 GHz (at 1.4 V core; personally, I'd stick with the 4.0 GHz and call it a day.)
The feat was achieved under a Thermaltake Water 3.0 liquid cooler, on a non-specified ASRock motherboard with all DIMM channels populated with 8 x 8 GB 3066 MHz DIMMs. At 4.0 GHz, the Threadripper 1950X achieves a 3337 points score on Cinebench R15. And at 4.1GHz, the big chip that can (we can't really call it small now can we?) manages to score 58391 points in Geekbench 3. While those scores are certainly impressive, I would just like to point out the fact that this is a 16-core CPU that overclocks as well as (and in some cases, even better than) AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 CPUs. The frequency potential of this Threadripper part is in the same ballpark of AMD's 8-core dies, which speaks to either an architecture limit or a manufacturing one at around 4 GHz. The Threadripper 1950X is, by all measurements, an impressively "glued together" piece of silicon.
Sources:
Reddit user @ callingthewolf, via WCCFTech
The feat was achieved under a Thermaltake Water 3.0 liquid cooler, on a non-specified ASRock motherboard with all DIMM channels populated with 8 x 8 GB 3066 MHz DIMMs. At 4.0 GHz, the Threadripper 1950X achieves a 3337 points score on Cinebench R15. And at 4.1GHz, the big chip that can (we can't really call it small now can we?) manages to score 58391 points in Geekbench 3. While those scores are certainly impressive, I would just like to point out the fact that this is a 16-core CPU that overclocks as well as (and in some cases, even better than) AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 CPUs. The frequency potential of this Threadripper part is in the same ballpark of AMD's 8-core dies, which speaks to either an architecture limit or a manufacturing one at around 4 GHz. The Threadripper 1950X is, by all measurements, an impressively "glued together" piece of silicon.
188 Comments on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X Overclocked to 4.1 GHz With Liquid Cooling
There's a reason why AMD used an Intel config when they showed off Vega because of Ryzen's inferior gaming performance.
#sarcasm
On a 30 game average, the 7800X was 5% faster on base clocks, and 1% (!) faster on OC! And you get this for a whopping 170$ extra cost, which is more than 75% extra cost. So you get a base clock 5% advantage (and 1% for OC) for 75+ % extra money. Not to speak about the huge price diff bw the motherboards. Moreover, the 7800X is consuming 20-25% more power. You shouldn't expect a lot more from a 6/12 Coffee Lake.
I game at 1440p with a 3.8Ghz Ryzen and a 2Ghz 1080ti. FWIW
In real terms, the price is still unavailable to many intuitions. Also to me! And in real terms, it should not be more expensive than $ 700 (prices, AMD Ryzen1500X x 4). And if you do not need as much CPU power (which many do not), it's not important to cope with latency problems that are the main problem of this engineering.
Here are all the reasons for the results.
What people don't get in these CPU fps debate threads is how price efficient Ryzen and TR are. With that price difference you should easily be able to buy a much better graphics card with a Ryzen/TR system and still have more cores in the end for your future proofing needs... People always compare Ryzen to Intel as if they somehow cost the same, when actually people in the 'real world' would be able to buy a better graphics card and it would be over.
CPU fps only matters when you already have the best graphics card in the world and there is no other way to increase your fps, so probably for less than 1% of people. But somehow this is the only thing that seems to matter in these threads and all the arguments revolve around it.
Anyways glad to see so many AMD processors in fellow forum members build. A year ago who would've thunk it. AMD has come a long way and i will support the competition as well.