The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review: 24 and 32 Cores on 7nm
by Dr. Ian Cutress, Andrei Frumusanu & Gavin Bonshor on November 25, 2019 9:05 AM ESTGaming: Strange Brigade (DX12, Vulkan)
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark which offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. AMD has boasted previously that Strange Brigade is part of its Vulkan API implementation offering scalability for AMD multi-graphics card configurations.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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zky1 - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Too expensive. Anything over $300 for a cpu is a ripoff. See you in two years when these threadrippers are obsolete.peevee - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
Very likely it is a new plateau enabled by 7nm and brand new Zen architecture developed to its potential. I predict small improvements from here for the next several years as it has been with Intel since Sandy Bridge - only better AVX512 implementation on something like 5nm and DDR5 will bring some improvements, but don't expect wonders on most tasks which don't care about memory throughput or AVX512.Slash3 - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
The upcoming Zen 3 architecture revision is reported to provide up to a ~10% IPC uplift, with some neat tricks such as unifying the L3 cache per chiplet (no more CCX contention).There's always something better around the corner. :)
lobz - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Nope, it's the CCX size that changes from 4 to 8 cores.peevee - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
"Up to 10%" - exactly what I have meant, a plateau, like Intel had after Sandy Bridge, adding only ~5% each year...Korguz - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
peevee um intel could of improved their ipc more each year.. but they didnt, there was no reason too.. just like they could of given mainstream more then 4 cores.. but they didnt as well.. mostly because of zen.. is there more then 4 cores from intel..catheryn75 - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
It's too bad they aren't available anywhere other then a few system builders. ie CyberPower , Origin , and others.Some of us who would use one of these new processors dont want to pay the extra 1500-2k for someone else to build it when we could do it ourselves.
AMD was really short sighted not at least having some supply at Newegg, Microcenter, Fry's, etc.. on launch day.
Dug - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
That's a lot of power needed for 24 cores. 3960 at 280w. And it's recommended to get water cooling? They aren't going to get many buyers on that.6 more cores than Intel 10980, but needs 90w more power to get there.
I thought 7nm would be better than this.
The Xeon is way out of wack at 381.
People that really need the speed to save in man hour costs, expect a high end system with warranty, instant replacement, compatibility (especially vm), and reliability. I don't think you are going to get that with water cooling. And I don't see any major players that offer what I listed, going to a water cooled system anytime soon.
alufan - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/configurator/amd-thread...pricey though but its liquid cooled
Dug - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Not exactly mainstream. I'm talking Dell, HP