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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mazz7 - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
I really thought that Anandtech viewers are smarter than others, but then i see the comments, I am really wrong about that ;pmartixy - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
The amount of happy this makes me...Also, I'm glad to see y-cruncher in the test suite. It's been my goto power virus/perf benchmark since around the 0.5 versions.
boltcranck - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
World of Tanks enCore is outdated, you should benchmark with the WoT enCoreRTwolfesteinabhi - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
there us a cositant typo at several places .... 3960X is typed as 3950XTorrijos - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
It would be interesting to present all the benchmarks in 2 graphs... The raw results, and then Bench/$.In order to have an idea of the financial benefits.
CraigIsSatoshiBsvIsBitcoin - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Looking forward to picking up a 64 core CPU for $200 in a couple of years..peevee - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Don't hold you breath. Well, maybe 64 in-order RISC cores. Not the same at all.liquid_c - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Gotta love how many people praise AMD and sh*t on Intel for this but just as many seem to forget that when AMD was in Intel’s place, they overcharged *way* more than Intel did / does. As a matter of fact, the 32c/64t gen3 TR costs 200$ more than last gen’s similar offering. The second AMD felt they caught a gust of wind, they slowly started inflating prices.I’m all for competition and i would love it if both Intel and AMD had some sort of control over final pricing (in my country, the 3900x costs ~700$...) but i have this distinct feeling that if things continue at this pace, AMD will become Intel 2.0, pricing and milking wise.
Bottom line - neither of the two are truly consumer friendly but memories fade and time tells its story at a slow pace.
M O B - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
AMD isn't in Intel's place, and the last time there were (2003), they didn't overcharge.As for selling a 32-core CPU for $2000 on a brand new process node that also offers ECC, PCIe 4.0, and is 100W under the closest competitor--that isn't a position Intel has been in before. Even in 2012 Intel wasn't destroying the competition so utterly in single-core, multi-core, node, and feature-set at virtually ever price point.
What Intel will sell you is a 3 year old process node for $2000 like they did for the last 2 years. Rest assured that if Intel was in AMD's shoes right now that 32-core would be $3,000 and not have ECC support.
Plus, AMD has a $750 16-core that is plenty for the enthusiast market. This is truly a workstations CPU.
Xyler94 - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
And Intel gets a pass on the 28 core overclocked Xeon that is priced at almost 4K?Listen, everyone wants to pay nothing for their products. But this chip isn't exactly cheap, and AMD is giving a heck of a deal on a processor Intel can't hope to make with their current processes. Remember that AMD's 64 core behemoth of a CPU only costs 7k, while Intel charges 10K for... 28 cores.