The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review: CPUs on Steroids
by Ian Cutress on August 10, 2017 9:00 AM ESTAnalyzing Creator Mode and Game Mode
Way back on page 3, this review explained that AMD was promoting two modes: Creator Mode with all cores enabled and a uniform memory access (UMA) architecture, and Game Mode that disabled one of the dies and adjusted to a non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA). The idea was that in Creator Mode you had all the threads and bandwidth, while Game Mode focused on compatibility with games that freaked out if you had too many cores, but also memory and core-to-core latency by pinning data as close to the core as possible, and keeping related threads all within the same Zeppelin die. Both methods have their positives and negatives, and although they can be enabled through a button press in Ryzen Master and a reboot, most users who care enough about these settings are likely to set it and forget it. (And then notice that if the BIOS resets, so does the settings…)
*This page has been edited on 8/17, due to a misinterpretation in the implementation of Game Mode. This original review has been updated to reflect this. We have written a secondary mini-article with fresh testing on the effects of Game Mode.
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Ian Cutress - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
We didn't post gaming performance for Ryzen at launch either, for similar reasons.bongey - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
Stop lying , you commented on gaming performance in your conclusion, without even benchmarking it in gaming.That is much worse.
Adul - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
How is that lying? They did not post gaming benchmarks. That is what he said.What was mention in conclusion was not part of his statement.Integr8d - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
It's called lying by omission...James S - Friday, August 11, 2017 - link
Ian did not lie even by omission. They clearly stated in the Ryzen conclusion and clearly stated in the Skylake-x conclusion why they didn't test gaming.“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time”
just4U - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
I think it's pretty ignorant of someone to state that Ian is lying in his own comments about articles he has written....alysdexia - Thursday, April 18, 2019 - link
Omission isn't lyging; it's self-censorship.Gothmoth - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
intel pays good money for advertising at anandtech....Nfarce - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
Listen to you fanyboy crybabies. Tom's and Guru3D did gaming benches too. Go find a Reddit AMD fanboy forum that will give a 100% glowing review of your precious Threadsnapper. You won't find a single credible tech site out there doing it. It's called impartiality. Oh and one more thing ladies: you all are aware that AMD sent the major tech review sites the EXACT same hardware kit for review, right?tuxRoller - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
ThreadSNAPPER? If this was intentional, I assume it's meant to be derogatory, but I'm not sure what it is meant to imply.