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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goldgrenade - Thursday, January 4, 2018 - link
Idk, I use my 1920x for gaming and working, and... really everything. Second best CPU on the market with 1950x beating it out unless you can't get enough cooling.LOVE this CPU.
rauelius - Thursday, August 17, 2017 - link
I really want to build a 1920x1080 build.goku4liv - Saturday, August 19, 2017 - link
21/08/2017 INTEL LAUNCH 8 SERIES OF CPU................. AMD DEAD !!goldgrenade - Thursday, January 4, 2018 - link
HAHAHAHA xDHope you invested in AMD despite your comment. Looks like my gut instinct in buying AMD since 2009 was right. Intel chips have a security flaw, that when fixed for series 8 and 9 will remove approximately 30% of performance...
So who has the best chip now? Take 30% off any Intel benchmark against its then AMD rival and see which one would have been better.
Draven31 - Saturday, August 19, 2017 - link
NUMA appeared in Windows machines in 1998/1999 with the SGI Visual PC (which, yes, was a windows machine) and iirc, a workstation from Intergraph about the same time.halotron - Friday, March 16, 2018 - link
The benchmark Chromium Compile is excellent!Please do that for the next 2000-series of Ryzen/Threadripper as well.
Thanks