I have noticed that for smaller test renders, the 5950x has picked up the job and is already half way through before the 3970x even starts. It is part of the Ryzen Threadripper lineup, using the Zen 3 (Chagall) architecture with Socket WRX8. Also those people who are scoring under 14 seconds with a 3990x please tell us how you are overclocking them, talk about getting the most out of your money. After several generations, AMD released its Threadripper Pro models with twice the number of memory channels (eight) for professional users and unique motherboards, but the beefy chips carried the eye-watering pricing to match their incredible performance. We put both of these chips through a test suite of professional-class applications, like SPECworkstation and SPECviewperf, along with our standard application test suite.

But there's a problem for enthusiasts — Intel abandoned the consumer-oriented high end desktop (HEDT) market after its crushing defeat three years ago, and now that AMD is the only game in town for HEDT chips, it's also dropping the segment. The former comes primarily by the way of improved branch prediction and pre-fetching, supported by much deeper and broader allocation of cache, while the latter is the result achieved by both doubling the width of the FPU data path and doubling density.The chips also bear all of the other benefits of Zen 3, like a 19% increase in instruction per cycle (IPC) throughput. The last system I built for myself around 2013, which I'm still using, is a dual AMD Opteron 4234 with 16 GB of memory and all SSD storage.

In the uk all companies which sell custom build, pre-built (they build if for you) threadripper pcs only sell the latest 5 series threadrippers now. I used to think the 3970x was snappier due to its slightly higher clock speed for single core tasks, but I think I was just fooling myself, they're really about the same for workflow.As a personal opinion, I would encourage you to focus on the benchmarking tools of the software that you are using - that'll probably the best indicator for the performance you'll get although that said there's scenes that might have a different hit on the performance and so even software specific benchmarks are supposed to be taken as a ~value. As we've seen in previous tests, the core-heavy Threadripper models reach peak power consumption long before all of the cores are fully saturated, but the support for overclocking/PBO will help break those bonds. The Ultimate Processor for the Professional WorkstationLet AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO processors be the productivity boosting engine at the heart of your next professional workstation.

AMD's original Threadripper chips (and supporting motherboards) were geared for HEDT, meaning they came with higher core counts and access to more memory and PCIe connectivity than mainstream desktop PC chips. Impressively, the performance gains of the “Zen 3” architecture can be delivered with no increase to power consumption or TDP. AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 5000 WX-Series processors enable demanding professionals to get more done in less time. The first graph shows the relative performance of the CPU compared to the 10 other common (single) CPUs in terms of PassMark CPU Mark.AMD is making the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5975WX on a 7 nm production node using 16,600 million transistors.