AMD THREADRIPPER 1950X
http://www.amd.com £990
Let’s get this out of the way right now: this is not a gaming part, but that doesn’t stop it
from being an incredible piece of engineering. AMD’s Threadripper series is aimed solely at
the professionals, the folk who make money out of rendering content on a day-to-day basis.And, my God, is it awesome? Packing a total of 16
cores and 32 threads, this kills the competition,
when it comes to price and performance in more
computational-oriented tasks. We saw scores of
over 3,000 points in CineBench at stock, a
benchmark of software traditionally used in the
industry for CGI and rendering cinematic content.
To put that into perspective, a Core i5-7600K
scores around 663 points, a Core i7-7700K
970 points, a Ryzen 7 1800X 1,612, and even
Intel’s top dog right now, the Core i9-7900X,coming in at the same price of this part, only
manages 2,184 points at stock. That’s just an
astronomical performance increase.
The biggy is overclocking. By default, it performs
identically to its Ryzen cousins, making it easy to
overclock it to 4 GHz on all cores; increasing single
and multi-core performance by 15%. If you profit
from computational work, this part is a no-brainer.
BASE/TURBO CLOCK: 3.4 GHZ / 4.0 GHZ / CORES/THREADS: 16/32 /
LITHOGRAPHY: 14NM / CACHE: 40MB /
MEMORY SUPPORT: 128GB DDR4 @ 2666 MHZ / MAX PCIE LANES: 64CPU1
I/O
CONNECTIVITY
This houses 64 PCIe
lanes, meaning you can
run up to four GPUs at
x16 without degradation
or throttling.2
SINGLE-CORE
PERFORMANCE
This behemoth is still a
Ryzen part, and you can
expect performance
similar to an i5-6600K.3
GAMING?
By default, AMD
includes a gaming mode
to ensure single-core
performance doesn’t
hold back titles that tend
to favour higher clocks.4
OVERCLOCKING
HEADROOM
You can clock this up to
around 4 GHz across all
the cores, adding an
extra 160 points in
Cinebench tests.90 %
Hardware
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