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Ryzen Threadripper 9980X review: 64-Core (Zen5) Desktop Processor

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X is a powerhouse CPU sitting at the top end of AMD’s Threadripper 9000X line, it brings an impressive 64 real CPU cores to the table. Thanks to simultaneous multithreading, it tackles up to 128 threads, which means it can handle massive multitasking workloads.

www.guru3d.com

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 im Test

HEDT ist nicht tot. AMD hält die Plattform mit den neuen Threadripper 9000 am Leben. 32 und 64 Kerne können sich lohnen, wie der Test zeigt.

www.computerbase.de

AMD Threadripper 9980X + 9970X Linux Benchmarks: Incredible Workstation Performance Review - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

【Hothotレビュー】 考えるな、感じろ。Ryzen Threadripper 9980X/9970Xの驚異的な性能をテスト

AMDは、最大64コアのCPUを擁するZen 5世代のハイエンドデスクトップ(HEDT)向けCPU「Ryzen Threadripper 9000」シリーズの出荷を7月31日より開始する。

pc.watch.impress.co.jp

 

[Yoshichan]

That's the actual name? Wtf

 

[diffusionx]

That's the actual name? Wtf

?
Threadripper has been a "thing" since the original Zen...

 

[winjer]

That's the actual name? Wtf

t has been for a long time. Almost a decade.
Because it has a lot of threads and it rips through Intel's market share.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

 

[Celcius]

I don't have a need for this many cores but I'd love to build a system with one of these just to play around with. Maybe pair it with an RTX Pro 6000 and 1TB RAM.

 

[winjer]

I don't have a need for this many cores but I'd love to build a system with one of these just to play around with. Maybe pair it with an RTX Pro 6000 and 1TB RAM.

These are not so much for gaming, though they are good enough at it, but rather to make games and other content.
With so many cores, PCIe lanes and memory capacity, they are great machines for work.

 

[PeteBull]

 

[Jinzo Prime]

That's the actual name? Wtf

It's not a regular desktop chip, it's their workstation line.

 

[Radical_3d]

That's an insane media coverage for something that only enterprises will buy.

 

[winjer]

That's an insane media coverage for something that only enterprises will buy.

Plenty of small companies and self employed workers will buy them.
These are for workstations, it's not for servers or AI farms.

 

[Radical_3d]

Plenty of small companies and self employed workers will buy them.
These are for workstations, it's not for servers or AI farms.

Small companies and freelancers build their own servers instead of ordering compute power in one of the five trillion services that offer that? I work with companies that have their own servers but are by no measure small (at least by the Spain's standards for that denomination).

 

[winjer]

Small companies and freelancers build their own servers instead of ordering compute power in one of the five trillion services that offer that? I work with companies that have their own servers but are by no measure small (at least by the Spain's standards for that denomination).

Yes, some companies might make some small servers out of Threadripper CPUs. But enterprises will mostly use the AMD Epic CPUs.
Threadripper is mostly directed for workstations.

 

[diffusionx]

Plenty of small companies and self employed workers will buy them.
These are for workstations, it's not for servers or AI farms.

yes, companies that need server farms use EPYC

 

[nowhat]

But enterprises will mostly use the AMD Epic CPUs.

Epyc, but your point stands. They're great for servers. These are for workstations, where having massive parallelism (not suitable for GPGPU) is a benefit.

 

[kevboard]

That's an insane media coverage for something that only enterprises will buy.

Threadripper is the productline for enthusiasts and small businesses. Epyc is the enterprise/industry CPU.

 

[IFireflyl]

Epyc, but your point stands.

EPYC, but your point stands.

 

[Radical_3d]

Threadripper is the productline for gaffers and small businesses.

FTFY.

 

[nowhat]

EPYC, but your point stands.

I Don't Do Random Capitalization.

 

[Black_Stride]

Still cant beat an RTX5050..........GARBO TIER!!!!!!!!!

Just joking, cuz honestly i have no perspective of what a CPU like this would actually be achieving......kinda like trying to visualize the distance to the moon.
Not my workflows.


Sorry I have nothing else to add.

 

[Celcius]

Anyone on GAF actually buying one of these?

 

[Insane Metal]

That's an actual monster, what the fuck.

 

[Sentenza]

I didn't feel any particular urge to change/upgrade my PC yet, at this particular point in time, but admittedly my current CPU being the BOTTOM LINE of the benchmark graph is kinda humiliating.

 

[Moochi]

I think I'm severely cpu bound right now. My 3090 is paired with an i9-11900KF. I don't see the point in upgrading the video card yet, but I wish I could upgrade the CPU affordably. Problem is, I got my video card during the 2022 drought buying a scratch and dent alienware.

So I'd have to get a new motherboard, a new case, and a new cpu. Not sure if its worth it or I should wait another year and just get an entirely new system when the 6090 or whatevers come out...

 

[winjer]

I didn't feel any particular urge to change/upgrade my PC yet, at this particular point in time, but admittedly my current CPU being the BOTTOM LINE of the benchmark graph is kinda humiliating.

If your intention is to render projects in Blender in your CPU, then the 5800X3D is very outclassed.
But for gaming, it's still very good. It can still ride with the pack. Only the newer X3D parts have some distance to it.
For example:

 

[kevboard]

I didn't feel any particular urge to change/upgrade my PC yet, at this particular point in time, but admittedly my current CPU being the BOTTOM LINE of the benchmark graph is kinda humiliating.

this is a benchmark for a highly multithreaded productivity usecase,
in gaming this graph would be completely different as there the single core performance is much more important, and most of the high core-count CPUs will struggle in those cases.

lower core count usually means higher clock speeds, means better single core performance.
the 5800X3D would absolutely destroy the Threadripper in basically any game.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Will this speed up Shader Compilations? That seems to be the only time my CPU fans speed up during gaming.

 

[Black_Stride]

Will this speed up Shader Compilations? That seems to be the only time my CPU fans speed up during gaming.

Yeah it would eat through shader compilation.
But once done the game will run worse than a 6 core 7600X.

 

[Signalis]

Ryzen Threadripper 9980X review: 64-Core (Zen5) Desktop Processor

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X is a powerhouse CPU sitting at the top end of AMD’s Threadripper 9000X line, it brings an impressive 64 real CPU cores to the table. Thanks to simultaneous multithreading, it tackles up to 128 threads, which means it can handle massive multitasking workloads.

www.guru3d.com

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 im Test

HEDT ist nicht tot. AMD hält die Plattform mit den neuen Threadripper 9000 am Leben. 32 und 64 Kerne können sich lohnen, wie der Test zeigt.

www.computerbase.de

AMD Threadripper 9980X + 9970X Linux Benchmarks: Incredible Workstation Performance Review - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

【Hothotレビュー】 考えるな、感じろ。Ryzen Threadripper 9980X/9970Xの驚異的な性能をテスト

AMDは、最大64コアのCPUを擁するZen 5世代のハイエンドデスクトップ(HEDT)向けCPU「Ryzen Threadripper 9000」シリーズの出荷を7月31日より開始する。

pc.watch.impress.co.jp

There's a lot of soyface in your post

 

[Gitaroo]

It is powerful enough to solve PSO stutter?

 

[7er0th]

Will this speed up Shader Compilations? That seems to be the only time my CPU fans speed up during gaming.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

It is powerful enough to solve PSO stutter?

I think in gameplay PSO stutter is more single threaded but I have no idea. The difference between a 9800X3D and a 9950X3D can't be all that big despite the latter having twice as many cores but I hope I'm wrong, much easier to add cores than single threaded performance.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

I know they're not meant solo for gaming but would love to see gaming performance comparisons

 

[winjer]

I know they're not meant solo for gaming but would love to see gaming performance comparisons

All the reviews I posted have gaming benchmarks.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

All the reviews I posted have gaming benchmarks.

I'm sorry I'm blind. The braille version of gaf is hard to use sometimes.

 

[winjer]

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X and 9970X Review

AMD's Threadripper 9000 series pushes Zen 5 to the extreme, with up to 64 cores and sky-high specs. We review the HEDT 9970X and 9980X–powerful, pricey, and...

www.techspot.com

 

[Black_Stride]

It is powerful enough to solve PSO stutter?

Nope.
If anything itll be even worse vs the 8 and 6 core CPUs.

 

[winjer]

Nope.
If anything itll be even worse vs the 8 and 6 core CPUs.

Why would it be worse?

 

[Black_Stride]

Why would it be worse?

Youd already be at a lower frame rate, so the PSO stutter would feel worse as the frametime dif would be larger.

 

[Griffon]

Yeah, not made for video games but great at offline rendering and shit like that.

Someday games will be more efficient at threads, not today tho.

 

[winjer]

Youd already be at a lower frame rate, so the PSO stutter would feel worse as the frametime dif would be larger.

But with more threads available, the time to compile a missed shader would be half of what a 9800X3D or 285K would do.
This graph is for the full shader pre compilation of one game. But during run*time the effect w0ould be the same.
So a stutter would last half the time on a Threadripper, than on a normal Ryzen or Core CPU.

 

[yogaflame]

What a monster. This can launch a nuke or guide a stealth bomber.

But will PCMR in gaf buy this one or even capable to build a pc rig with this monster?

 

[StereoVsn]

Epyc, but your point stands. They're great for servers. These are for workstations, where having massive parallelism (not suitable for GPGPU) is a benefit.

Threadripper will also make for a great AI workstation. Throw in couple 5090s or the new 6000 series cards and you got some serious local power.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

I used to think more CPU cores was a great thing and had hoped that games would leverage more cores, but if you do mostly gaming, getting anything more than 8-cores is so damn pointless.

 

[Outlier]

Aren't Threadrippers generally NOT designed for gaming?

As good as it is, the price just seems much for the gaming gains.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

man itd be so fun if these monsters were good for gaming

maybe some day AI tools will take a game's code and parallelize the hell out of it for 1000 cores

 

[Kadve]

single threaded meanwhile.

 

[Clear]

Aren't Threadrippers generally NOT designed for gaming?

As good as it is, the price just seems much for the gaming gains.

Yeah these are enterprise-class chips, and as such they are designed primarily for parallelized processing tasks. For example running a lot of VM's.

 

[Loomy]

That's an insane media coverage for something that only enterprises will buy.

On top of everything else mentioned about who Threadripper is for, AMD wants their successes in the news, and Threadripper is almost always a success. The idea is never let people forget that we're the market leader in CPUs. Everyone wants to be on the winning team.