Power Consumption and Temperatures
Power Consumption
Now, this is where things get serious. Threadripper uses a lot of juice, but surprisingly not as much as the Intel Core i9-7900X. of course, that’s due in no small part to the higher clock speeds of the Intel offering. Threadripper can hit peaks over 300 in some tests, but for our WPrime 1024 run, it sits at 231W.
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Overclocked
Overclocking closed that gap a lot, with TR hitting over 300W. Either this or the i9 is going to make a big dent in your power bill, but at least you get a lot of performance per watt.
Temperatures
There are a few problems with this figure, and it’s down to the hardware we had available at the time. The 1950X was running on a 120mm AIO cooler with 2 x 120mm fans. All our other CPUs are running on the Noctua NH-D15S. We are waiting on a bracket to fix that, but for now, the Threadripper is on water. Even so, it’s running pretty damn hot and makes the i9 look pretty chill in comparison.
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Overclocked
That’s right, 106c at full load, yikes. This is a real hot chip and I wouldn’t run it at this 24/7. I promise we’ll retest with a better cooler, and see if we can get those overclocks higher, improve performance in gaming, and tame that heat!
The gaming performance is shocking. Something isn’t right when Ryzen chips are doing better. Probably some microcode improvements to be made me thinks.
Anyway, this is what Ryzen should’ve been!
Did the review using ThreadRipper’s Gaming Mode for the gaming tests? See AnandTech…
IMO you’re not 1080p gaming with a TR if you’re even slightly sane, so those results can be ignored.
Why should 1080p be ignored? Lower resolutions mean higher CPU work.
Oh come on, even kindergarten kids know that ThreadRipper supports ECC RAM. Please fix that in the article.
https://www.amd.com/en/products/ryzen-threadripper
“Up to 16 cores and 32 threads for lightning-fast creative workloads.
An unprecedented 64 PCIe® Gen3 lanes to meet large GPU and NVMe needs.
Up to 40MB of combined cache for rapid access to large data sets.
Quad channel DDR4 with support for ECC for reliable throughput.”
This processor is really huge and so is its raw performance. It is quite shame that the gaming performance is not at all satisfactory.
“For some gamers, not having a couple of FPS extra isn’t a big deal, especially if the CPU can still render a video stream in the background without making other compromises. It’s tough to say how many, but there’s a market for a CPU like this, it’s likely just not your typical PC gamer.”
Seems a convoluted pro intel argument.
How about:
If the knowledge worker Cpu CANT still render a video stream/compile etc.in the background without making other compromises, then It’s tough to say how many, but there’s a market for a CPU like this, it’s likely just not your typical user in control of their life.”
The question for the target market is?, can it excel at work tasks, yet perform a dual task, OR, is it much worse than a dedicated, separate, single app, futureless gaming pc. To say “you get no better gaming for the extra money is irrelevant.”
If both needs exist, but priorities are reversed, then clearly the ryzen suits, esp the frugal 6 cores for some reason, and a little more patience is needed for the infrequent core heavy tasks. (Sigh, it seems only yesterday 8C WAS for core heavy tasks.)
Are people also really as silly as pundits assume, & they think they are dealing with a static target – that their PCs wont get loaded up with more and more distractions over the years of ownership?
Pundits also fail in their duty to newbies by not forewarning of the inevitable lane shortage they face when they upgrade meaningfully. Only a $1000usd Intel or TR give any real latitude/peace of mind on expanding HB resources.
They should also be warned (long story) that intels ~switched/filtered lanes are not the equal of amdS honest lanes.
Some loss of latency from doubling ryzens zeppelin dies on a a TR MCM is inevitable. Whats remarkable is how little a latency penalty is paid for the benefits of extra lanes. They still overclock to the ryzen sweet spot of 3200 ram & 4k OC for the cpu.
I am puzzled by memory tests here. Others have shown? a ~linear benefit from the 4 channel TR vs the 2 channel ryzen – a major bonus if true?