The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review: CPUs on Steroids
by Ian Cutress on August 10, 2017 9:00 AM ESTCPU Legacy Tests
Our legacy tests represent benchmarks that were once at the height of their time. Some of these are industry standard synthetics, and we have data going back over 10 years. All of the data here has been rerun on Windows 10, and we plan to go back several generations of components to see how performance has evolved.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
3D Particle Movement v1
3DPM is a self-penned benchmark, taking basic 3D movement algorithms used in Brownian Motion simulations and testing them for speed. High floating point performance, MHz and IPC wins in the single thread version, whereas the multithread version has to handle the threads and loves more cores. This is the original version, written in the style of a typical non-computer science student coding up an algorithm for their theoretical problem, and comes without any non-obvious optimizations not already performed by the compiler, such as false sharing.
CineBench 11.5 and 10
Cinebench is a widely known benchmarking tool for measuring performance relative to MAXON's animation software Cinema 4D. Cinebench has been optimized over a decade and focuses on purely CPU horsepower, meaning if there is a discrepancy in pure throughput characteristics, Cinebench is likely to show that discrepancy. Arguably other software doesn't make use of all the tools available, so the real world relevance might purely be academic, but given our large database of data for Cinebench it seems difficult to ignore a small five minute test. We run the modern version 15 in this test, as well as the older 11.5 and 10 due to our back data.
x264 HD 3.0
Similarly, the x264 HD 3.0 package we use here is also kept for historic regressional data. The latest version is 5.0.1, and encodes a 1080p video clip into a high-quality x264 file. Version 3.0 only performs the same test on a 720p file, and in most circumstances the software performance hits its limit on high-end processors, but still works well for mainstream and low-end. Also, this version only takes a few minutes, whereas the latest can take over 90 minutes to run.
The 1950X: the first CPU to score higher on the 2nd pass of this test than it does on the first pass.
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Ian Cutress - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
We ran with both and give the data for both. Gaming Mode is not default, and it may surprise you just how many systems are still run at default settings.mapesdhs - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
Just a thought, might it be possible for AMD to include logic in the design which can tell when it's doing something would probably run better in the other mode, and if so notify the user of this?zepi - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
Which 7-zip version are you actually using? Do you really run version 9.2 as stated in the article?Latest stable should be something like 16.x and 17.x's are also available.
zepi - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
Your numbers look somewhat different compared to some sites that have been using 17.x versions.DanNeely - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
Keeping the version constant means you can compare against a huge backlog of old data without having to rerun anything and having to drop any systems you can't get working or were only loaners.Alexey291 - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
Yes and also means that the results are useless.tamalero - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
Agree. Its like running a benchmark suit that cant handle more than 8 threads.. because "back in the days" there were only dual core processors.Johan Steyn - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link
Its called slanted journalism, just another example.zepi - Friday, August 11, 2017 - link
Exactly. We don't test GPU's with Quake 2 only to have comparable benchmark results against Voodoo 3.And almost no-one running 7zip today (be it on Core 2 quad OR Core i9) won't be running these ancient versions. Results on those versions are just meaningless in todays environment.
zepi - Friday, August 11, 2017 - link
princess and half a kingdom for functional edit.