Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/29/2018 03:02 PM | source: | 13 comment(s)

We'll double it up once again, meet this 24 core processor with 48 threads sound at a price of 1387 USD? Yeah, it might be a mighty compelling product. AMD is back at it again in their Core wars as they release the Threadripper Gen2 based 2970WX with a base clock of 3.0 GHz and Turbo to 4.2 GHz, this is what we call a massively threading processor.

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#5601276 Posted on: 10/29/2018 03:44 PM

Thank you HH.

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#5601279 Posted on: 10/29/2018 03:48 PM

Great review, HH!

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#5601282 Posted on: 10/29/2018 04:00 PM

Excellent review.

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#5601317 Posted on: 10/29/2018 05:30 PM

Seems the Windows scheduler scales things a bit more evenly than the Linux one. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. On Linux, the 2970WX performs much closer to the 2990WX than the 2950X, for what I assume to be a bottleneck in the InfinityFabric (where the 2970WX is less demanding, and therefore its cores are less bottlenecked).

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#5601359 Posted on: 10/29/2018 08:10 PM

Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX
You have reached your final destination - the 2990WX has no less than 32 cores and 64 threads. The proc has a 4.2 GHz turbo allowance and runs a 3.0 GHz base clock. This massive manycore product will be sold for 799 USD, which is 56 USD per core. This processor under full stress has a 250 Watt TDP.

Hey @Hilbert Hagedoorn , I've spotted a minor typing error.

This applies to 3 of 4 of your corresponding reviews

https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-ryzen-threadripper-2920x-review,1.html

https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-ryzen-threadripper-2970wx-review,1.html

https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-ryzen-threadripper-2950x-review,1.html

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#5601370 Posted on: 10/29/2018 08:40 PM

With the last paragraph, you said AMD pulled a rabbit from it's "head" did you mean "hat" ? Anyway awesome review and thanks.

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#5601374 Posted on: 10/29/2018 08:43 PM

Why not play game, eh? So here are the two problems with a 24-core processor / 48-thread processor versus gaming. As such, AMD created a pretty cool feature. Basically, they designed the proc to be run in Creator and Game modes.

Small correction here Hilbert but I think you never elaborate on what those 2 issues were. Like a sentence got deleted or something.

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#5601385 Posted on: 10/29/2018 09:20 PM

I know for gaming it's way overkill, but my lord it is pretty to had all them logical cores!

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#5601419 Posted on: 10/29/2018 11:10 PM

Awesome review, Its good to see the Dynamic mode offering some good performance in 3dmark without enabling gaming mode, Do you happen to have the version of AMD Ryzen master with dynamic mode available?

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#5601430 Posted on: 10/29/2018 11:45 PM

Great review Boss , well done , thanks.

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#5601482 Posted on: 10/30/2018 03:58 AM

Are you planning to re-bench the 2990wx with dynamic local? the Timespy results doesn't suggest you did.

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#5601491 Posted on: 10/30/2018 05:25 AM

That is some GODLY cpu power! To bad I don't do anything that would ever use that power... But it is time to buy AMD stock...

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#5601651 Posted on: 10/30/2018 04:17 PM

With the last paragraph, you said AMD pulled a rabbit from it's "head" did you mean "hat" ? Anyway awesome review and thanks.

Come on, everyone pulls a rabbit out of his head every now and then, eh?...

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