AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X

[W1zzard]

Ryzen Threadripper 2950X is AMD's new flagship 16-core processor. Precision Boost Overclock works wonders to further increase its performance while always being stable. Our review of the 2950X presents four data sets: stock, manual OC, PBO enabled and PBO with Local Memory Access mode.

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[Ferrum Master]

Did AMD really send you a review sample?

 

[LiveOrDie]

Nice review but its pretty clear it would be faster than a lower core CPU but we also didn't see any OC tests for the i9 so the only thing you can really compare is the price.

 

[Joss]

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which would otherwise we unstable with a manual overclock

 

[R0H1T]

Does the 2950x come with just 2 functional dies, like the previous gen 1950x TR1, or 4 dies?
Just saw page 3

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

for $900, the same price as the i9-7900X with 6 more cores, better clock speeds, beefier cache & 2nm smaller than Intel's similarly priced HEDT processor, I say no one will complain of getting one... Though I know one thing; the packaging box it comes with is dope AF!

 

[londiste]

Are you sure there were no motherboard vendor "optimizations" enabled?
Both 4.1 GHz boost on all cores as well as 237/280W power consumption sound suspicious.

 

[TheGuruStud]

Those are some seriously impressive clocks for the process/core count.

 

[mcraygsx]

Fantastic Review, I still cannot get over the fact how energy-efficient Zen architecture really is with that many cores and clock speed as compare to anything INTEL has to offer.

I think its time for INTEL to design something beyond CORE architecture. At same time I cannot wait for your review of TR 2990WX.

 

[R0H1T]

Are you sure there were no motherboard vendor "optimizations" enabled?
Both 4.1 GHz boost on all cores as well as 237/280W power consumption sound suspicious.

Zen doesn't need separate motherboard boost, it has XFR2 and PB2 for better clocks out of the box.

 

[Vya Domus]

I don't quite get it as to why the price is listed as disadvantage.

 

[mcraygsx]

I don't quite get it as to why the price is listed as disadvantage.

That is what I was asking myself earlier. AMD is the reason an average person can build a decent rendering workstation for a decent price now a day. Lets not forget there is additional saving of not have to upgrade motherboard in near future unlike its competitor. At least give them some credit?

 

[W1zzard]

I don't quite get it as to why the price is listed as disadvantage.

It's still a lot of money? I tried to explain that near the end of the conclusion

 

[Vya Domus]

It's still a lot of money? I tried to explain that near the end of the conclusion

Of course it is but I believe that needs to be addressed within a context , otherwise there isn't much point in mentioning it.

 

[HTC]

I don't quite get it as to why the price is listed as disadvantage.

It's still a lot of money? I tried to explain that near the end of the conclusion

While i agree that it's a lot of money, bearing in mind the use case this is supposed for, this is actually cheap and should have been a plus rather then a minus.

If one buys is for gaming only, then @W1zzard is 100% correct, but who in their right mind would do that?

 

[$ReaPeR$]

good one w1zz! thank you

 

[bug]

Of course it is but I believe that needs to be addressed within a context , otherwise there isn't much point in mentioning it.

So you'd be ok with not listing the price of a Titan V as a con either?

You can add as much context as you want, HEDT CPUs aren't mean for mainstream. They're priced out of mainstream, so the price is always a con.

 

[FeelinFroggy]

@W1zzard Love the review, too bad you could not throw in the 1950x data to see the improvement from the 2950x.

 

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard Love the review, too bad you could not throw in the 1950x data to see the improvement from the 2950x.

Unfortunately AMD had no 1950X that I could borrow, and the one I borrowed for the 7900X review was returned a long time ago

 

[Joss]

If this CPU can boost to 4.4 GHz on two cores, a 2800X (if it materializes) could do what... 4.6 GHz?

 

[XiGMAKiD]

The next impressive thing after the price is still the multithreaded energy efficiency, AMD needs to keep that up

 

[Shatun_Bear]

In the summary, overclocking approaching 5Ghz?! Wow, was this a typo?

 

[notb]

IMO only 4 results in the review matter: database, Euler3D, VM and Tensorflow. All are obviously disappointing, so it's hard to understand the final score this CPU got...
Putting aside simple multicore tasks (like encoding), this CPU performs like a 10-core Ryzen (but thankfully, also consumes that much power).
How is this possible?

That is what I was asking myself earlier. AMD is the reason an average person can build a decent rendering workstation for a decent price now a day.

Here's the thing: average person doesn't need a rendering workstation. This is a CPU for a... hard to define group of PC users (even if it was performing like a 16-core should). The amount of focus it gets on the internet is just weird...
We're getting second generation of a CPU that everyone talks about but no one buys... but where are AMD-powered high-end notebooks?

for $900, the same price as the i9-7900X with 6 more cores, better clock speeds, beefier cache & 2nm smaller than Intel's similarly priced HEDT processor, I say no one will complain of getting one...

Seriously? What happened to the world. You prefer one CPU over another because it's made on a different node?

 

[TheGuruStud]

So you'd be ok with not listing the price of a Titan V as a con either?

You can add as much context as you want, HEDT CPUs aren't mean for mainstream. They're priced out of mainstream, so the price is always a con.

Titan V is a glorified gaming card. Ram error piece of crap.

 

[Shatun_Bear]

If this CPU can boost to 4.4 GHz on two cores, a 2800X (if it materializes) could do what... 4.6 GHz?

I think the 12nm manufacturing process has improved from when the 2700X rolled off the production line over 4 months ago, allowing more chips to hit higher clocks. But of course, more than that, these are higher-binned, top 5% chips (EPYC to Threadripper to Ryzen is the priority order) that can clock higher.

They could certainly release a 2800X on AM4 in October/November with a 4.5Ghz boost on one core potentially, but it would have to be cheaper than the 9900K. But seeing as Intel will give that a premium price of around $450, there would be a lot of room for manoeuvre as they could release for $350 and drop the price of the 2700X down.

Having said all that, I don't think a 2800X is likely As by the time the 9900K releases in October, we'd be quite close to the release of 7nm Ryzen if the Q1 2019 release rumour is to be believed.