The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review: CPUs on Steroids
by Ian Cutress on August 10, 2017 9:00 AM ESTCPU Web Tests
One of the issues when running web-based tests is the nature of modern browsers to automatically install updates. This means any sustained period of benchmarking will invariably fall foul of the 'it's updated beyond the state of comparison' rule, especially when browsers will update if you give them half a second to think about it. Despite this, we were able to find a series of commands to create an un-updatable version of Chrome 56 for our 2017 test suite. While this means we might not be on the bleeding edge of the latest browser, it makes the scores between CPUs comparable.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
SunSpider 1.0.2: link
The oldest web-based benchmark in this portion of our test is SunSpider. This is a very basic javascript algorithm tool, and ends up being more a measure of IPC and latency than anything else, with most high-performance CPUs scoring around about the same. The basic test is looped 10 times and the average taken. We run the basic test 4 times.
Mozilla Kraken 1.1: link
Kraken is another Javascript based benchmark, using the same test harness as SunSpider, but focusing on more stringent real-world use cases and libraries, such as audio processing and image filters. Again, the basic test is looped ten times, and we run the basic test four times.
Google Octane 2.0: link
Along with Mozilla, as Google is a major browser developer, having peak JS performance is typically a critical asset when comparing against the other OS developers. In the same way that SunSpider is a very early JS benchmark, and Kraken is a bit newer, Octane aims to be more relevant to real workloads, especially in power constrained devices such as smartphones and tablets.
WebXPRT 2015: link
While the previous three benchmarks do calculations in the background and represent a score, WebXPRT is designed to be a better interpretation of visual workloads that a professional user might have, such as browser based applications, graphing, image editing, sort/analysis, scientific analysis and financial tools.
Overall, all of our web benchmarks show a similar trend. Very few web frameworks offer multi-threading – the browsers themselves are barely multi-threaded at times – so Threadripper's vast thread count is underutilized. What wins the day on the web are a handful of fast cores with high single-threaded performance.
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Notmyusualid - Sunday, August 13, 2017 - link
@ AlexeyNope - it means comparisons are easier than ever. If that means anything to you.
Alexey291 - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Why yes, I can compare some results of performance in software which is so outdated that it's half a dozen major versions behind...So as I was saying. Useless information.
Lolimaster - Friday, August 11, 2017 - link
You can add 2 results, one for comparison purposes and one with always the newest version available.Alexey291 - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
Would involve work as opposed to just running a macro once in a whileTypo - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
I wonder if the TR 1900x will get its own mode? Something like game mode but still retains smt?Yojimbo - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
It would be cool if you tested time between turns for a few late-game Civilization VI saves.Ian Cutress - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
When the developers of Civ finally listen to me and add in a command line for the AI benchmark, I can script it into my setup. They keep ignoring me. They have a command line for the regular benchmark, but because the AI benchmark was added post release no-one thought to add a command line for it (or publish what the command line flags are). There is an -aibenchmark flag in the disassembled code, but it doesn't do anything, which makes me think that it is disabled for release builds.rtho782 - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11685 <--- this link to the motherboard roundup just takes you to the homepage.Ian Cutress - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
It's still a WIP, needs expanding and editing. Will be doing that over the weekend :)Arbie - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
FYI, this sentence needs some repair work:"Though it's interesting just how cost the 10-thread Core i9-7900X gets here"