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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX and 2950X in review – Real progress with up to 32 cores

If you now look at the separately determined results for the CPU performance in the professional applications, when it comes to pure computing power, it looks consistently good for the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X, because up to 16 threads get the most programmes are still quite good. For the big Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX it gets a bit tight again, because the special cases where applications can really be scaled over all cores are a bit rare. But they do exist, after all.

In Solidworks, the Ryzen Threadrippers don't really come forward, because even the implemented computing tasks don't scale over the available cores. Especially since it is no secret that the components of many applications have been and will be optimized very clearly for Intel CPUs, unfortunately.

Creo is already in a better position, although the Core i7-8700K always surprises me anew. Here, in the end, it really rips out the beat, even if the test field is closer together at the end than the bars at first suggest.

But now! Blender and the cores that smiles!  Rendering can be perfectly parallelized, that's no secret. And so the great Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX renders everything else completely in the ground for the first time.

After all, 3ds Max is now full of AMD domain in the compute, who would have thought that a few years ago? After all, 16 threads are already starting here and if you can solve the whole thing with real cores, the better. However, the Ryzen 2700X is still very thin in front due to the higher clock speed, because most of the time is expected rather than rendered.

If you pick out the pure rendering in 3ds as a subindex, then you can also see that the Threadripper 2950X with PBO is the measure of things and can adjust the just yet so pretentious Ryzen 2700X again.

Woe betide if they let go. Luxrender as a console version is already a much delicious task. As with Blender, Threadripper is now allowed to score points. Especially the Threadripper 2990WX shows all other subjects with grace the red taillights.

Handbrake does not scale badly over the cores, but also not good enough to be able to use more than 16 of them efficiently.  Thus, the large Threadripper 2990WX loses to the smaller Threadripper 2950X and can only catch up with overclocking.

The case is similar to 7-Zip, where not everything can be spread as desired. 18 threads are usually sufficient for packing, so that the core i9-7980XE is clearly ahead due to the clock advantages, but…

… when unpacking, however, the picture turns very clearly.

Pov-Ray

Multi-threaded, the power crown is again unique in the Threadripper 2990WX, because the mouse does not bite a thread.

Only single-threaded you don't get so happy. However, this very special use case is only designed for rendering and nothing for daily use.

Kraken (Javascript Benchmark) and WebXPRT

For octopuses, the result is almost analogous to other applications that rely on only one or a few threads.

WebXPRT doesn't look any better, on the contrary.

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