{"id":337530,"date":"2020-02-04T08:34:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=337530"},"modified":"2020-02-04T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:35:12","slug":"amds-new-threadripper-destroys-intel-in-benchmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/337530-amds-new-threadripper-destroys-intel-in-benchmarks.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD’s new Threadripper destroys Intel in benchmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMD’s recently-unveiled Ryzen Threadripper 3990X processor has outperformed one of Intel’s top Xeon Platinum processors, according to benchmarks spotted by Overclockers.ru<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 3990X was unveiled at CES 2020 and is AMD’s flagship offering for high-end workstation requirements.<\/p>\n

The processor boasts 64 physical cores, 128-threads, a 2.9GHz base clock, 4.3GHz boost clock, and 256MB of L3 cache. It is built on AMD’s 7nm Zen 2 architecture.<\/p>\n

The benchmark scores were discovered in a SiSoftware SANDRA database entry<\/strong><\/a>, with the processor boasting a processor arithmetic score of 1,786.22 giga operations per second (GOPS).<\/p>\n

The clock speed shown was 4.35GHz, which indicates that the processor may have been overclocked during this test.<\/p>\n

How it compares<\/h3>\n

The scores show that it performed around 18% faster than two 2nd-generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 processors, which achieved 1,516.38 GOPS.<\/p>\n

The high-performance Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 features 28 cores, 56 threads, a base clock speed of 2.7GHz and a boost clock running at 4.0GHz, with 38.5MB L3 cache.<\/p>\n

A direct comparison between the specs of the two CPUs would show that the Threadripper has an advantage in both core count and thread numbers, but the pricing differences could be a major factor.<\/p>\n

A single Xeon Platinum processor is priced at $10,000 (R148,200), and while the 3990X’s price has not been revealed, analysts expect it to be much more affordable than Intel’s product.<\/p>\n

Predictions have put the expected price of the 3990X between $2,999 (R44,450) and $3,999 (R59,265).<\/p>\n

Now read: AMD\u2019s powerful Ryzen 4000 processors \u2013 All the details<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMD’s recently-unveiled Ryzen Threadripper 3990X processor has outperformed one of Intel’s top Xeon Platinum processors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":334238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[577,62954,28218,131,62956,40396],"class_list":["post-337530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-amd-ryzen-threadripper-3990x","tag-cpu","tag-intel","tag-intel-xeon-platinum-8280","tag-processors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337552,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337530\/revisions\/337552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}