Using the internal overclocking tools available on the MSI TRX40 Creator motherboard, I initiated a series of stepped overclocks of the 3970X that performed differently depending on the use case.For starters, let's establish the parameters of my overclock.
It's an unfamiliar scenario: The onus is now on Intel, both in production capability and in seizing mindshare, to make up some major ground lost to its perennial-underdog rival. (Likewise, first- and second-gen Threadripper chips won't work in the new sTRX4 socket. Most users will find themselves with extra PCIe slots and lanes, extra slots for memory, and plenty of cores to handle increasingly complex workloads. Graphics cards are by far the biggest determining factor when it comes to frame rates, so the difference between our MSI Gaming X+ RX 580 and Zotac GTX 1080 Ti AMP! Are the threads ripped, as promised?Aside from the Geekbench single-core test, these scores are by far the highest results we’ve seen from any computer, and it’s no small victory. The few whopping Threadripper air-cooling solutions, though, like the Finally, there's the RAM. But this proved to be too unstable to be reliable.
That upcoming chip, about which details beyond the core count are scarce, could tilt this equation even further, though it will be Even without the 3990X, though, at this point, AMD is running raw-performance victory laps, closing out a stellar year with the heaviest hitters it has ever fielded. Prev. The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X is a 64 core, 128 thread processor designed for the high-end desktop market. Jason Lewis is Senior Environment Artist at Obsidian Entertainment and CG Channel’s regular reviewer.
This isn’t budget hardware.Does Threadripper pour fuel on the fires of AMD’s glorious comeback, or serve as proof there’s more to performance than core count?Packing in so many cores takes up a lot of space, and the Ryzen Threadripper chips bear a closer resemblance to the oversized However, the AMD chips do have one similarity with their Intel peers. Specs and use cases. Third-generation Threadripper moves that needle to 56 direct PCI Express 4.0 lanes and 16 PCI Express 4.0 lanes for devices paired alongside USB and SATA, opening upward of 133GBps of total bandwidth. The box includes a Torx T20 screwdriver with a ratchet calibrated to exactly the pressure needed to properly seat the chip.
I have a feeling that the 2990WX is underperforming here, as the 1950X isn’t too far behind in this test. First off, PCI Express 4.0 debuts on the Threadripper platform here, in the same way it did with the X570 chipset with the mainstream Ryzens under the Zen 2 architecture this past summer. Cutting four cores for the Threadripper 1920X only brings the base clock up to 3.5GHz, and leaves the boost clock untouched. For those who need this sort of a horsepower to render videos and 3D scenes, work with raytraced lighting, or handle major encoding tasks without having to hand over their entire system, the choice is clear. (All that was required was a BIOS update.) On the other hand, if you do need this sort of power, nothing slower will do.Intel’s chip does have one edge, and that’s in per-core performance.