Threadripper 9980X: What Real Users Actually Think

That's insane price, but it gives insane performance i guess.

Geometric mean of all results: Threadripper 9980X | 225.05 perf | 286.89W | 0.78 perf/w | 2.36x relative perf/w. The 9980X significantly outperforms its predecessor the 7980X (0.56 perf/w) in performance per watt.

Finally a price and confirmed date! Im surprised it has 92 PCI-e lanes on the none pro line. I need threadriper for the PCI-e lanes, but i only need 52, i was expecting 64 lanes, but wow 92 is generous. Meanwhile Normal ryzen is still limited to 24.

I am finding a lot of the Threadripper reviews just about meaningless. They all feel the need to placate people with gaming benchmarks despite the fact that no gamer is going to buy one of these chips. The chips are for high thread work loads, period. If you can afford a Threadripper CHIP, you can build a much more powerful gaming rig and have a ton of money left over.

120$/core with that much RAM and PCI-E? On the other hand if you need high frequencies, EPYC would probably be better.

I want more PCIe lanes more than I want more cores. More more.

Incredible performance, as expected. Recently, I've been thinking about how desktop CPUs seem to be lagging behind when it comes to core count. It's nice to see AMD keeping HEDT alive. "Normal" consumer CPUs have gotten so small when compared to consumer GPUs they're almost funny to look at.

The mainstream Ryzen PCI-E lanes situation annoys me. Back in 2019 i upgraded to X570 which gave me bleeding edge PCI-E 4.0, 4 lanes to the top M.2, 16 Lanes to the GPU. On my X870E board, it's impossible for me to do this with 5.0 drives while keeping 16 lanes to my GPU. I had better expansion options then.

Minimal improvement in 7zip and Da Vinci Resolve compared to 7980X

Only large improvements are in AVX512 workloads ... which makes sense given that was the major improvement Zen 5 has vs Zen 4.

Isn't that like 3 generations old Intel they're comparing to? And it's being slaughtered in reviews.

Threadripper is a good cpu if you are working on engineering analysis. I got amd TR 3960x and an amd 7800x3d, 7800 can't get anywhere close when you are running CFD or FEA, but 3960 lags even playing civilization 5.

Those compile times are delicious.

I remember buying my first ever 2 core (with 2 threads). I was amazed that I could play a game and have Winamp running in the background as well. Many years later; 96 cores; 192 threads. GG AMD. Not for private folk, I get that, but damn. That thread count.

Prices are much more interesting than the Pro/WX line, starting at $1500 for 24 cores. I think they would definitely be lower if there was some kind of competition though.

Well I'm out.

Granite Rapids server parts have launched, but SPR is still the latest version of Xeon-W until GNR-W launches probably sometime later this year. So AMD's comparison isn't cherry-picking — it's just that Intel hasn't updated their workstation lineup.

This isn't a surprise, the 9950x was a 60% uplift in these same types of workloads compared to the 7950x—that fact just got overshadowed by all the people only concerned with gaming. Intel has not been remotely competitive since Zen 3.

9000 series is the first time since Zen+ 2000 series where threadripper make sense, its available, reasonably priced, not OEM locked and hopefully its not a paper launch and i can actually buy one.

Use Process Lasso to constrain the game to a single CCD. The latency penalty for crossing CCDs is kinda heavy, especially on the oldest zen generations. Enabling ACPI SRAT L3 as NUMA domain can achieve a very similar effect.

"processor designed for parallel workloads not the fastest in single threaded. film at 11" — imagine if it scored 147,481 in single threaded too.

Gaming performance is lower than what you'd get even with a 9600X. Threadrippers don't boost that high and scheduling with so many cores is difficult.

Infinity Fabric 3.0 are keeping up with the throughout of new gen CPUs, nice implementation by AMD. Curious if they're gonna revamp when DDR6/CAMM goes mainstream.

I really wish there was a benchmark for an application like Zbrush which is where CPUs like the Threadripper really shine especially at extreme to beyond extreme poly counts. The Threadripper really is an ideal CPU for ZBrush.

AMD just increases their prices on HEDT with no competition until it's just a little cheaper than Threadripper pro. Especially since it would otherwise eat into workstation sales. Intel kept Xeon-W prices insanely high even though they sucked from an objective standpoint because they had no competition.

Gaming is like race car driving with the 9800x3D/9950x3D being a formula one car. The threadripper is more akin to a giant overpowered pick up truck. It'll go fast, but it's mostly made for hauling heavy shit. The EPYC being equivalent of a truck/lorry.

The threadripper is literally made for multi core performance, better than any intel CPU of that price too.

A PROCESSOR DESIGNED FOR MULTI-THREADED PERFORMANCE IS ONLY THE FASTEST IN MULTI-THREADED PERFORMANCE?! EGADS!! THIS IS A TRAVESTY!

Scheduling. Anything with multiple CCDs is always a shitshow in games.

9975WX doesn't have a memory bandwidth advantage over 9980X, so the benefit is mainly having higher capacity with 8 slots. It's a lot cheaper to use more lower capacity DIMMs. If you do need greater memory bandwidth for LLMs, Epyc is usually better than TR Pro if you're OK with the motherboard options.

This is also the only reason I need threadripper. My poor x670e motherboard is packed full and throttling certain devices. The lowest end threadripper is $1500 or something, not bad.

The risk of faulty hardware is not unique to TR. But the prices are higher, which is why it's always a good idea to buy new with a warranty. Glad you got it working with the ASRock board, which is what I'm using with my 7960X. Weird how ASRock has a solid board for the TR lineup.

Have you flashed the bios? I have this board and chip and it required using the bios flashback to get the bios that supports the zen 5 thread toppers to work.

It's the occasional horror story like this that made me go with a System Integrator. I've always built my PC's myself in the past, but between the price and the apparent fickleness of Threadripper, I was not at all comfortable doing it myself!

I read a post like this before, asus mb didn't work for him, it booted with 1 ram stick only and he returned it, went with gigabyte took only one try and everything worked perfectly for him.

Same problem. 9980x and pro ws trx50 sage wifi a. Nice 00 on the 7 segment. Nothing helps. Returning the motherboard.

Threadrippers use to be between 2k and 3k now 5k.

For AI work with big datasets and multiple GPUs, I'd pick the 9975WX (Threadripper Pro) over the 9980X (non-Pro). Memory channels and capacity from 8-channel RDIMM gives you much higher aggregate RAM bandwidth and far larger/cheaper capacity for dataloading, tokenization, feature engineering, and CPU to GPU feeding.

The 9975WX only has 4 CCDs, so it seems 8 sticks of ram won't get you any more bandwidth than 4 sticks/channels until you go up to 9985WX, which then has slower base clock speeds. Lots of trade-offs and triangulating for the sweet spot.

I wouldn't buy this chip to game on but I would create a VM for gaming on it alongside other VMs. I think this CPU is great for playing with future technology. Home servers are amazing to have.

The thing I find irritating about pretty much all of these reviews is that they only focus on results for 1 core and the total number of cores the processor has. Processor performance is very application dependent and you have to pick the right tool for the job.