AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X Review

AMD has been killing it in the CPU game since they launched Ryzen last year. The 1800X – and the rest – did an amazing job of bringing competition back on the consumer level, then a few months later they launched their Threadripper series of chips which invigorated competition in the enthusiast market too. Now, around a year later, they are back with a new “Zen+” version of Threadripper, and a few new models. The one all the big tech channels will be showing off is the 2990WX – the 32 core monster of a CPU. Sadly, I’ve only got the lowly 2950X, the replacement for last year’s 1950X, still boasting 16 cores, 32 threads and now up to 4.4GHz of boost clock with a 3.5GHz base.

Since I didn’t get my hands on last year’s Threadripper chips, nor Intel’s i9 range, this review isn’t going to be… traditional. If you want in depth comparisons between every rival chip in 300 different games and applications, go check out Anandtech’s review of this chip. They do a much better job at benching this stuff anyway. This video, however, is going to focus more on what you actually get for your $899 – which, by the way, is a freaking amazing price for this monster of a chip. I’ll show you what real world numbers you can expect, why you’d want one, and who this crazy thing is even for – and a couple of synthetic tests just for fun. So, without further ado, let’s get started.

First I think we need to answer why you’d want this – besides the bragging rights. This chip isn’t a gaming chip. It’ll game just fine as you’ll see in a sec, but if you are solely gaming then you ought to give this one a miss. This is for content creators. Programmers. AI and deep learning – all at the same time. You want to game and stream on the same system with no quality loss? Cool. You want to render your new feature length film while you edit something else in premiere? Awesome. You want to use Blender to render out that trillion polygon model you’ve been hiding away waiting for a PC that won’t spontaneously combust when you try and render it? This is for you.

It still has 64 PCIe lanes, and 4 of those still get routed to the chipset meaning 60 total PCIe lanes available to play with. That means if you want to have 1 GPU for your Linux host machine – native gaming, rendering and the likes – another GPU for your SRIOV passthrough looking glass Windows VM specifically for gaming – and 2 10GBe cards and 4 M.2 SSDs in RAID 5, you’ve still got lanes to spare.

The “stock” cooler – made in collaboration with Cooler Master – named the “Wraith Ripper”, does a great job of cooling the 2950X with highs of only 71°c. You can go for a cooler like this Enermax one – which has a full cover block unlike most AIOs designed for mainstream applications – but honestly it’s not a massive difference if you went with a regular cooler like an H100i Pro.

Let’s talk performance then. Starting with fully synthetic, we have Cinebench – 3111 points multithreaded, and 176 single – meaning insane all core performance with 2600X/8600K on the single threaded side. 3D mark firestrike’s CPU score showed it over 27,400 points meaning a healthy lead over last gen, and similarly priced 7900X. Moving to more real-world, blender’s BMW render test took 2 minutes, 35 seconds using CPU only – meaning that as far as I can tell, it’s a hair faster than even the 7980XE – an 18 core beast from intel (that costs over twice as much!). In Adobe Premiere Pro, rendering  a 4K 30FPS, 30MB/s project, it munched through that in just 8m 22seconds – compared to a Ryzen 1700 which took 14m 39seconds. Of course with GPU assistance it’s closer to 5 minutes on Threadripper, but still, impressive results. And finally, in gaming, it faired ok in the likes of GTA V with 152FPS average on very high settings at 1080p with a GTX 1080ti – but I would take that number with a large pinch of salt, since I’ve had a lot of issues in getting even that number. With that said, PUBG and Fortnite respectively performed really rather well, with 143 and 170 FPS AVG both at 1080p on Ultra and epic settings.

So, as I said this isn’t a gaming chip. It’ll game just fine, and especially if you are only gaming to pass the time while a render is running, or a video export is going on, this is perfectly fine for doing both simultaneously! In my eyes, this thing is incredible value. At $899 – and similar numbers in £, EUR and most other currencies, it’s a steal for this level of performance. Motherboards are a bit more pricey than usual, as is quad channel RAM, but they are all still pretty minimal considering the horsepower you are getting here. If you are a content creator, programmer or really anyone who can make use of a load of CPU power, then I cannot recommend this enough.

Would I put this in my rig? Hell yeah. This is perfect for me. I don’t care if I lose 5 FPS on my 1440p monitor, down from 150 to 145, since I’ve normally got G-sync on my 144Hz monitor anyway, but halving my render times and having that much extra capacity to do things while I render, edit or export is just a dream come true. Highly, highly recommended.

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