Something interesting a lot of reviews don't consider is that Threadripper, since it's a multi-chip module with each chip having its own memory controller, has

Something interesting a lot of reviews don't consider is that Threadripper, since it's a multi-chip module with each chip having its own memory controller, has a non-unified memory architecture (NUMA), where half the memory will have higher latency because it has to go to the other chip. Some software is written with this in mind, some isn't. Consequently, Threadripper has two modes: NUMA mode (OS sees two NUMA zones and different latencies) and UMA mode (single NUMA zone, single average latency). It may be worth trying both when benchmarking to see what difference it makes. I think most reviewers aside from AnandTech have overlooked this since NUMA hasn't been a concern on the desktop before.