A Corona 1.3 benchmark between the i9-7980XE and the 2990WX saw, in that workload, the 2990WX 28% faster than the i9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9sMfWmC

A Corona 1.3 benchmark between the i9-7980XE and the 2990WX saw, in that workload, the 2990WX 28% faster than the i9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9sMfWmCsk&feature=youtu.be&t=8m19s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9sMfWmCsk&feature=youtu.be... Its power consumption was 19% higher than the i9-7980XE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9sMfWmCsk&feature=youtu.be&t=26m7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9sMfWmCsk&feature=youtu.be... Tom's Hardware saw a stock 2990WX at a lower power consumption than a stock i9-7980XE during a Prime95 "torture loop". Overclocked, the AMD part was higher than the Intel one, but only slightly. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-2-2990wx-2950x,5725-13.html https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-... Where have you seen that it has double the power consumption? Under what workloads? Personally, I don't care about "weaker cores". If a system has 2048 cores clocked at 7 THz and it is 20% faster at my workload than a single-core CPU at 700 MHz, it is faster. The fact that the "weaker cored" system is cheaper than the "burly muscly" single core system is a bonus. Power consumption doesn't even matter that much either. It is the equivalent to a single 60W light bulb (or several of those new-fangled LED bulbs). Big whoop.