DECEMBER 2019 PCWorld 9AMD SAYS IT’LL BE FAST
AMD has long had a core count advantage over
Core i9, but with the new, more efficient Zen 2
cores in the Threadripper 3000 chips, the
company also promises a lot more
performance. For example, AMD said its
32-core Threadripper 3970X will be up to 90
percent faster in Cinebench R20 over an 18-core
Core i9-9980XE. The 24-core will outpace
Intel’s current best Core i9 by 54 percent, the
company added. AMD also claims a huge
advantage over the top-end Skylake-X chip in
Chromium compiles, Unreal engine compiles,
Adobe Premiere CC encodes and ChaosQUAD-CHANNEL RAM
STAYS PUT
The amount of memory channels for the new
Threadrippers also appears unchanged, with
up to four channels of DDR4 supported on
both CPUs. While there had been
speculation that AMD would go with an
eight-channel memory configuration to
coincide with an expected 64-core CPU,
AMD didn’t say peep about additional
memory channel support (which would
require an additional new platform) or a new
CPU. So for now, Threadripper sticks with
quad-channel memory.
Intel oddly almost has a price advantage.
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$Ryzen 5 3600 Zen (6/12)
Ryzen 7 3700X Zen 2 (8/16)
Ryzen 5 3600X Zen 2 (6/12)
Ryzen 5 3900X Zen 2 (12/24)
Ryzen 9 3950X Zen 2 (16/32)
Ryzen 7 3800X Zen 2 (8/16)
Threadripper 2920X Zen+ (6/12)
Threadripper 2970WX Zen+ (24/48)
Core i9-10980XE Cascade Lake-X (18/36)
Core i9-10940X Cascade Lake-X (14/28)
Threadripper 2950X Zen+ (16/32)
Threadripper 2990WX Zen+ (32/64)
Core i9-10920 Cascade Lake-X (12/24)
Threadripper 3960X Zen 2 (24/48)
Core i9-10900X Cascade Lake-X (10/20)
Core i9-9900K Coffee Lake R (8/16)
Threadripper 3970X Zen 2 (32/64)
Core i9-9900KS (8/16)
Core i9-9920X Skylake-X (12/24)
Core i9-9960X Skylake-X (16/32)
Xeon W-2225 Skylake-X (28/56)
Core i9-7980X (18/36)
Core i9-9980XE Skylake-X (18/36)
Xeon W-2225 Cascade Lake-X (4/8)