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AMD Threadripper Pro 5995WX and 5975WX Review

• LinkLink 4y ago
  Its disingenuous and ridiculous that the first and most prominent benchmarks included are gaming. Granted I'm an AMD fan but most of these tests are single core heavy, and the focus is almost entirely shifted away from anything this chip was meant to do. Ignorant journalism at best.
  • humanistbot 4y ago
    You're reading an article by a prominent site for gamers, not professionals. Even though hardly anybody will buy a Threadripper Pro for gaming, Tom's is writing what their readers want to see. They themselves say they know it is not intended for gaming, but they "couldn't resist" showing those metrics. I bet that is what most of their readers are wanting to see too.
  • Kranar 4y ago
    FTA: >The Threadripper Pro models aren't intended for gaming, but regardless, we couldn't resist the temptation to see how the chips fare when paired with a high-end GPU. The Threadripper chips don't impact competitive positioning in the gaming market, so consider this round of tests an exhibition/academic exercise.
  • dragontamer 4y ago
    Funny you have this opinion. As far as I can tell, the only valid reason to go Threadripper instead of EPYC is for single core workloads like video games. If you just need a ton of IO and CPU, EPYC will likely be better for you.
• bithavoc 4y ago
  Can we change the link so it points to the original Phoronix article[0] without Clickjacking? [0] https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-threadripper-5965wx https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-threadripper-5965wx
  • Kranar 4y ago
    That's a different article altogether.
  • nemetroid 4y ago
    That article isn’t even about the same CPU.
• kramerger 4y ago
  These are expensive server CPUs and don't really make sense in gaming machines. Also, I find their naming scheme more and more confusing. Can someone explain it to me?