A few days ago AMD announced their Ryzen Threadripper series processors including three new HEDT chips and they all come with a highly competitive price tag. When it comes to benchmarks we’ve only seen numbers in multi-threaded ones so far but it looks like LinusTechTips now had a more in-depth look at the chip’s performance.


Although detailed information on the settings used are missing, the numbers are still interesting to look at. The benchmark have been conducted using four different test setups, two were based on AMD Ryzen (AMD X370 and X399) and two on Intel (Intel X299 and Z270). The Intel HEDT setup features an Intel Core i9-7900X chip on an ASUS Prime X299-Deluxe, while the AMD HEDT setup comes with an AMD Threadripper 1950X on a Dell/Alienware motherboard. While the two mainstream setups are based on an Intel Core i7-7700K and on an AMD Ryzen 7 1700X processors. Each setup uses the same NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card.

The only major difference between these setups we can spot regards the amount of memory used. While the consumer setups are based on 2x16GB DDR4-3200, the Intel HEDT uses 4x8GB DDR4-3200 and the AMD HEDT 4x8GB DDR4-2666.

According to LTT's video, on Rise of the Tomb Raider both in DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 the systems perform similar. In the case of CPU performance, we see a big difference between the Core i9-7900X and the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X in 3DMark, where the AMD CPU is slower by 20%. This is a bit surprising since the Intel CPU comes with six less cores and twelve less threads.

In other 2D applications the Threadripper CPU performs pretty well. For example in Cinebench R15 and in the Blender 2.78c the difference towards the AMD flagship chip is impressive.

At the moment these are the first real-world benchmarks on AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper and more details can most likely be expected to surface this week, since by then the NDA is allegedly supposed to be lifted.





Source: Techpowerup