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AMD Threadripper 1950X review

69 points by jjuhl 9y ago

justinjlynn 9y ago
Does Ryzen have something similar to Intel's Processor Trace functionality? It's pretty much the only thing keeping me tied to Intel at this point.
aidenn0 9y ago
I'd be ineterested in seeing how they run the chromium build. It completes in just over an hour on my Ryzen 1700.
- robin_reala 9y ago
  http://www.anandtech.com/show/11697/the-amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-and-1920x-review/11 http://www.anandtech.com/show/11697/the-amd-ryzen-threadripp... 23.11 compiles per day vs 15.6 for the 1700. 50% faster.
  - aidenn0 9y ago
    Ah, it's on windows. That matches my experience that windows builds take about 50% longer than linux builds.
pcunite 9y ago
More cores and NVMe ... now this should be a computing upgrade for me. I'm currently on an i5-3570K custom build from 2013. ECC is on my to get list as well. I'll miss the onboard video, however. But not a biggie. I would really like to be able to test one of these things before buying. I want to know how much faster my workloads will be when doing the following: * C++ compiles times in VS2015 * Sony Vegas render to an AVI file using Lagarith * Handbrake render AVI to MP4 * Output Canon Raw files using Canon DPP * Resize JPG files using FastStone Photo Resizer * Search NVMe drives using FileSearchEX * Running VMWare Workstation guests and their applications (Exchange Server, OS installs, etc.)
olegkikin 9y ago
I would really want to see a comparison with the previous generation Xeons, which do drop in price much faster than the consumer CPUs. I feel like higher-core ones will beat 1950X at tasks that multithread well. Examples: 18-core Xeon E5-2686 v4 = $450 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/172668300615 http://www.ebay.com/itm/172668300615) 18-core Xeon E5 2695 V4 ES = $610 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/272620269793 http://www.ebay.com/itm/272620269793) 20-core Xeon E5-2698 v4 ES = $745 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/282579817803 http://www.ebay.com/itm/282579817803) 22-core Xeon E5 2699 V4 ES = $920 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/201883329486 http://www.ebay.com/itm/201883329486) 24-core Xeon E7-8890 v4 ES = $999 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/352113502495 http://www.ebay.com/itm/352113502495)
- Boothroid 9y ago
  In my experience the motherboards are a downside when considering a Xeon system - narrow range, expensive, often missing latest features, sub-optimal in an everyday desktop machine. OTOH there are dual socket options which threadripper doesn't have. There was an article on building a dual Xeon box using cheap second hand chips recently and I was seriously considering it until I saw the range and cost of dual socket boards.
  - brudgers 9y ago
    I read this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12249317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12249317 and had the same idea last year when I went to build a computer for the boy. It wasn't just that the price of the motherboard was a killer, navigating the subtle differences between similar server sockets and chips is hard. And used motherboards are not cheap and often proprietary. Then there's the fact that for a dual socket motherboard, a single chip is a bit economically inefficient...so a pair of chips starts to make sense. And then a bigger power supply. And still not good support for powerful graphics cards because...well, you know...it's a server motherboard. In the end, I got a bought the boy a used Dell Precision T7500 for less than I would have paid for an equivalent case and power supply. Sure only six Xeon cores and 12 threads. But a system with RAM, a windows license, a small hard disk and 12GB of RAM was half the price of the cheapest Threadripper...including shipping.

69 points by jjuhl 9y ago

Does Ryzen have something similar to Intel's Processor Trace functionality? It's pretty much the only thing keeping me tied to Intel at this point.

aidenn0 9y ago

I'd be ineterested in seeing how they run the chromium build. It completes in just over an hour on my Ryzen 1700.

robin_reala 9y ago
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11697/the-amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-and-1920x-review/11 http://www.anandtech.com/show/11697/the-amd-ryzen-threadripp... 23.11 compiles per day vs 15.6 for the 1700. 50% faster.
- aidenn0 9y ago
  Ah, it's on windows. That matches my experience that windows builds take about 50% longer than linux builds.

pcunite 9y ago

More cores and NVMe ... now this should be a computing upgrade for me. I'm currently on an i5-3570K custom build from 2013. ECC is on my to get list as well. I'll miss the onboard video, however. But not a biggie. I would really like to be able to test one of these things before buying. I want to know how much faster my workloads will be when doing the following: * C++ compiles times in VS2015 * Sony Vegas render to an AVI file using Lagarith * Handbrake render AVI to MP4 * Output Canon Raw files using Canon DPP * Resize JPG files using FastStone Photo Resizer * Search NVMe drives using FileSearchEX * Running VMWare Workstation guests and their applications (Exchange Server, OS installs, etc.)

olegkikin 9y ago

I would really want to see a comparison with the previous generation Xeons, which do drop in price much faster than the consumer CPUs. I feel like higher-core ones will beat 1950X at tasks that multithread well. Examples: 18-core Xeon E5-2686 v4 = $450 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/172668300615 http://www.ebay.com/itm/172668300615) 18-core Xeon E5 2695 V4 ES = $610 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/272620269793 http://www.ebay.com/itm/272620269793) 20-core Xeon E5-2698 v4 ES = $745 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/282579817803 http://www.ebay.com/itm/282579817803) 22-core Xeon E5 2699 V4 ES = $920 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/201883329486 http://www.ebay.com/itm/201883329486) 24-core Xeon E7-8890 v4 ES = $999 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/352113502495 http://www.ebay.com/itm/352113502495)

Boothroid 9y ago
In my experience the motherboards are a downside when considering a Xeon system - narrow range, expensive, often missing latest features, sub-optimal in an everyday desktop machine. OTOH there are dual socket options which threadripper doesn't have. There was an article on building a dual Xeon box using cheap second hand chips recently and I was seriously considering it until I saw the range and cost of dual socket boards.
- brudgers 9y ago
  I read this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12249317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12249317 and had the same idea last year when I went to build a computer for the boy. It wasn't just that the price of the motherboard was a killer, navigating the subtle differences between similar server sockets and chips is hard. And used motherboards are not cheap and often proprietary. Then there's the fact that for a dual socket motherboard, a single chip is a bit economically inefficient...so a pair of chips starts to make sense. And then a bigger power supply. And still not good support for powerful graphics cards because...well, you know...it's a server motherboard. In the end, I got a bought the boy a used Dell Precision T7500 for less than I would have paid for an equivalent case and power supply. Sure only six Xeon cores and 12 threads. But a system with RAM, a windows license, a small hard disk and 12GB of RAM was half the price of the cheapest Threadripper...including shipping.