Can AMD RIP the Core i9? – Ryzen Threadripper
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,241 words · ~6 min read
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there are a number of important things that separate AMD from Intel in the CPU
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Market these days here are just a few product called Threadripper AMD yes
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Intel no gigantic package AMD yes Intel
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no debuted at LTX amds Intel no but if
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the name and the sheer size and girth of
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AMD's new socket TR4 platform isn't
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enough to sell you on it then stick around because we're about to open it up
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and see if what's inside rips team blue
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a new
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one the be quiet! dark Bas Pro 900s
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modular design supports a variety of different layouts and configurations
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click on the link in the video description to learn more meet thread
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Ripper AMD's latest and greatest in more
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ways than one release for the Zen
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microarchitecture that threatens to hit Intel where it hurts the high-end
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desktop and workstation this is a really big deal because the last time AMD had
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any punching power in this weight class optons were still a thing people wanted
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to buy and you could still get a decent AGP graphics card it can be argued that
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ryzen 7 positioned against the core i7
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6900 K had a lot of appeal but it lacked
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per thread performance and more importantly perhaps the many PCI Express
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Lanes that professionals have come to rely on while Threadripper is actually
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clocked similarly to ryzen 7 and makes use of the same modular CCX design and
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infinity fabric interconnect by amping it up to four CCX of cross two dies we
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now get a total of 64 PCI Express Lanes that is 20 more
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than Intel's shiny new core I9 and even
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threatens Intel's Zeon server processors
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Who currently enjoy just four more Lanes than their core I9 counterparts and in a
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world where gpus are critical to
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high-end compute performance like rendering and scientific research 64
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Lanes gets you highspeed connections to
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a lot of them three gpus by themselves
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at 16x speeds would saturate a core I9
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or zeeon completely while on a Threadripper based system you're going to have
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room to spare to be fair to Intel their
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rationale is that there's not many scenarios where this is a big issue but
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AMD's betting and we believe they're right on NVMe storage high-speed
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networking and high performance external accelerator even gpus becoming more and
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more common as time goes on though with that said there is no word yet on
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Thunderbolt support in any AMD ecosystem
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what is supported on all AMD Zen based platforms though are The Usual Suspects
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like sense Mii Precision boost and xfr
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which allow Threadripper to determine the Optimal Performance State voltage
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and power limit on a millisecond scale and even boost performance further if
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the cooling is good enough old news perhaps but it's an important
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distinction from Team blue whose high-end desktop and Zeon processors
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have traditionally lagged a generation behind their mainstream chips in terms
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of power management well all right then lonus thanks for the recap tell us
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something we don't know we'll get to that first a closer look at the chips
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launching today the 1950x clocks in at a
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whopping 16 cores and 32 threads with a
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massive 40 megab of cash it achieves
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this by gluing together two zenis of two
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CCX each what's perhaps even more interesting is its little brother the
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1920x which still enjoys a numbers
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advantage over the more expensive cor I9
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7900 X at 12 cores 24 threads and still
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64 PCI E Lanes so we slotted both of
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them quite literally this new mounting mechanism is bananes into an ASUS Zenith
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extreme with 32 gigs of tridentz RGB RAM
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and a thermal take ring RGB cooler as for competition all three of our other
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test benches will be represented x299
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z270 and x370 and as for performance
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well surprisingly our 1950x actually beat out the competition
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in Rise of the Tomb Raider and DSX mankind devis
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but then fell well behind the pack along with the 1920x in
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CSO not quite sure why that would be but
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it pulls up alongside team blue again in our synthetics so maybe we'll chalk it
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up to the ongoing game engine optimization for ryzen that AMD has been
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shouting out or just another source engine Quirk to throw in the pile moving
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on to productivity benchmarks this is
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where it gets really interesting while our synthetics show Threadripper more
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or less trading blows with the core I 9 even in multi-threaded workloads when we
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get into rendering with cinebench R15
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and blender our 12 core
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1920x is competitive with the core I 9
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7900x and our 1950x is way out front like by a lot our
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two Threadripper CPUs also had the lowest performance drop during our
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combined streaming and local recording test with OBS in
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CSO beautiful so what's the catch Linus
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does it light up like a Roman Candle do we need a pocket nuclear reactor to
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power it well if you're overclocking actually maybe more on that
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to come but at stock speed Threadripper manages this kind of multi-threading
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performance at roughly a dozen more watts and 10 more de under synthetic
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load compared to the core I 9 and at these prices the value proposition
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especially for professionals is outstanding for gamers unless you're
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streaming or 3D rendering at the same
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time you're gaming Threadripper isn't
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going to be the best value but for pros
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it's frankly starting to look like a no-brainer if your workload relies on
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multi-threading performance or lots of adding cards now it remains to be seen
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how team blue will react if at all but given their negative press against AMD's
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epic and Threadripper products for Data Center and workstation use it's safe to
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say they're beginning to feel a little hot under the colar but that's okay
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Intel AMD's got a uh Threadripper that
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can help you with that get it it's a joke cuz you could rip the
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