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
So thats why, if it turns out TR beats intel, then I buy TR, so simple is it for me, that CPU that provides the best CPU Power/Score in my budget will I buy.
if I JUST was a normal gamer, I would not spent that much on a CPU, ahah :)
Boost 3.0 will place 2 cores at 4.5 GHz while boost 2.0 maxes out at 4.3 GHz.
EDIT: Also note, many motherboards by default will boost to all thread turbo out of the box. The Prime had my 7900X at 4 GHz all cores from the first boot. It did this on the mainstream platform across other vendors as well.
LOL this is the strongest CPU on the desktop market. Period.
At 4.1GHz+ this will have near the same single-threaded performance as even an overclocked Kabylake, and certainly at least matching any Skylake-X IPC.
1. Strongest CPU on the market... wow. Core for core Intel is a bit faster. The problem is the price per core is offputting.
2. IPC doesn't increase as the clocks go up. If TR is beating Intel at 3Ghz by 5%, its going to be beating INtel at 4 GHz by 5% (when testing IPC).
3. We've seen one hit 4.1 Ghz...
3a. The 7900X doesn't throttle under stock turbo... 4.5 GHz is 2 cores boss. ;)
Threadripper 1950X and 1920X popped out on the V-RAY benchmark results list.
benchmark.chaosgroup.com/cpu?page=9
And if you go to page one hey on second position is a Dual EPYC 7601 System just behind the Quad Xeon E7-8890 v3 System.
benchmark.chaosgroup.com/cpu?page=1
I mean even at the same freq, it's still gonna miss some numbers.
I'm 99% positive that TR will be a software/compatibility disaster for the first 6 months, when they finally fix it somewhat up, there will be Coffee Lake and 18 core beast from Intel. One of the reasons...
+ Mate, I can't believe you given the fact that you say the CPU is a year old on market. Actually it launched 5 months ago... :D
"All topics are rounding around AMD bugs, year after it's release. XMP not working, problems with OC, low OC, and many more"
Maybe if you don't buy it on debut and wait a month or 2 for the new BIOSes, you don't tell that lie.
"Maybe he's fed up with all that AMD crap"
He didn't write anything like that.