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The 1950X cost $1000 2 years ago, and it looks like you can pick them up for $500 now. Both are 16 cores with two chiplets. 1950X advantages: - 4 memory cha
by celrod 7y ago
The 1950X cost $1000 2 years ago, and it looks like you can pick them up for $500 now. Both are 16 cores with two chiplets.
1950X advantages:
- 4 memory channels vs 2
- 64 PCIe lanes vs 16-4-4
3950X advantages:
- 64MB of L3 cache vs 32MB
- DDR4 3200 vs DDR4 2666
- The PCIe lanes are 4.0 vs 3.0
- 3.5Ghz base clock vs 3.4
- 4.7Ghz boost clock vs 4.0
- 15% better instructions per clock
- Full avx2 instead of emulating with two 128-bit units
- 105W vs 180W TDP
The 3950X sounds like quite the improvement! Definitely a great deal IMO.
- Dylan16807 7y ago> Full avx2 instead of emulating with two 128-bit units Just a note: Two units for fused multiply-add, otherwise it's four units with two multipliers and two adders.
- CoolGuySteve 7y agoThe biggest difference between the 2 imo is that TR4 boards have 8 DIMM slots whereas Ryzen maxes out at 4 even with X570 afaik. Ryzen 3000 specs say it can support 128GB of ram but it’s hard to find 32GB DIMMs on the market. So if you’re trying to build a workstation with lots of ram and more than one GPU, the Ryzen boards are too limited even if you’re willing to buy a nice one.
- penagwin 7y agoI think they've got the market segmented decently. Ryzen's the consumer chip after all, and it's high end configuration boarders on prosumer for sure. I feel like if you're requiring 128GB of ram and/or maxing out the PCIE then you're going to have a bigger budget and ThreadRipper makes more sense.
- sekh60 7y agoCrucial makes 32GB DIMMs with ECC memory, not sure if non-ECC. Many Ryzen mobos accept ECC memory.