Afterwards much speculation and an official unveiling last calendar week, it'due south finally time to see if Threadripper can bring contest to the loftier-cease desktop segment while delivering the value and efficiency we've come to look from other Ryzen processors.

Earlier we bound into the benchmarks, here'south how we've set up up the comparison. For this review, we'll be testing the new Threadripper 1950X and 1920X along with the Ryzen 7 1700 and 1800X, too equally Intel'south competing Core i7-7800X, 7820X and Core i9-7900X.

Compared to the Ryzen 7 1800X, which until at present was leading AMD's pack, the Threadripper 1920X comes at a 75% price premium and offers 50% more cores. You also get quad-channel memory support and significantly more PCI Express lanes.

While we're curious to come across how Threadripper fares confronting AMD's more affordable lineup, I'yard more interested in learning how they compare confronting Intel'due south Skylake-X parts, and then y'all can look an emphasis on those results.

The Skylake-X CPUs were installed on an Asrock Fatal1ty X299 Professional Gaming i9 motherboard, while the Threadripper CPUs were tested on the Asrock X399 Taichi motherboard. Both platforms were fitted with Grand.Skill'due south TridentZ DDR4-3200 CL14 64GB quad-channel retentivity kit. Large thanks go to Chiliad.Skill for providing all that retention.

The X299 platform was installed on the Praxis Wetbench and was cooled using Thermaltake's Pacific RL360 custom liquid cooled kit. Meanwhile Threadripper was tested on a sheet of cream on my desk and was cooled by the Thermaltake Floe Riing RGB 360 AIO liquid cooler.

Ryzen Threadripper System Specs

  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X
  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X
  • Asrock X399 Taichi
  • 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM (CL14)
  • Samsung SSD 850 Evo 4TB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-fleck

Skylake-X System Specs

  • Intel Cadre i9-7900X
  • Intel Core i7-7820X
  • Intel Cadre i7-7800X
  • Asrock Fatal1ty X299 Professional person Gaming i9
  • 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM (CL14)
  • Samsung SSD 850 Evo 4TB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

Ryzen 7 System Specs

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
  • Asrock X370 Taichi
  • 16GB DDR4-3200 RAM (CL14)
  • Samsung SSD 850 Evo 4TB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-flake

Get-go upward, memory bandwidth performance. As you probably know, Ryzen vii CPUs feature a dual-aqueduct retentivity controller whereas Threadripper offers quad-channel retentivity admission, much similar Skylake-X. As a result, memory bandwidth has been increased by 50% over Ryzen 7 and at present Threadripper is on par with the Core i9-7900X.

As promised by AMD, the 1950X is practiced for an incredible multi-threaded score of 3028pts in Cinebench. That's a 39% increment over the i9-7900X, both of which cost $1,000.

The Core i9 CPU is 10% faster for single-threaded tasks, simply that'south not exactly the point of these CPUs. The 1920X was also xiii% faster than the 7900X and forty% faster than the i7-7820X, and then a clear win hither for AMD in terms of cost vs. functioning.

Before we movement onto the more serious benchmarks, I wanted to see how Threadripper stood upward in PCMark 10, which looks at office blazon workloads and typically isn't cadre-heavy. To my surprise, Threadripper scored very well in this test and did considerably improve than the Core i9-7900X.