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New AMD Ryzen Threadripper smashes PassMark record — 9980X scores 147,481, making it the fastest desktop CPU ever tested, but only in multi-thread performance (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Single thread performance is not really a good metric for what this proc is designed for. There are few, if any, server designed softwares that would even need to test single-thread.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's still a desktop CPU, there are people who will want to play games on it when they aren't compiling code or rendering videos.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't it a "workstation" CPU rather than a "desktop"? Afaik it's aimed at productivity software, not games

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Correct, it's still based on their epyc chips and is more for workstation duty than for a desktop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Agree, i still have a DD 1950x threadripper from, like, 10 years ago. Built it for something else, use it for literally everything now. It is outperformed by almost any newer gen AMD cpu and its a bottleneck with a 6900xt, but all of this is to be expected, it wasnt a powerhouse single core then and it definitely shows its age now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I have 5800X3D because I primarily game on the system, but it's fast enough to do other compute work. Games will probably work just fine even on these multithreaded monsters when you feel like it after mostly doing work on it. It's just prioritizing.