Officials said the CPU was running at 5GHz, but they didn’t disclose that it used an industrial water chiller to achieve the feat. The problem for Intel is that CPU demo wasn’t exactly up-front. The two new ‘X’-branded CPUs, or even its 8-core Ryzen CPUs, address those users, the company said.
AMD said it knows a lot of applications and games favor higher clocks over thread and core counts. In fact, that’s why AMD is adding the ‘W’ to some of the 2nd Gen Threadripper CPUs. Outside of multi-threaded apps, though, expect performance to favor CPUs that run at higher clock speeds. Other multi-threaded tests such as POV-Ray place the 32-core about 47 percent ahead. The company said the 32-core Threadripper 2990X is about 51 percent faster than the 18-core Core i9-7980XE in Cinebench R15. The new CPUs offers a decent performance uptick over the first-generation CPUs, AMD says, and against the comparable Intel parts, it’s not much of a contest. Officials say all CPUs are drop-in compatible with existing X399 motherboards, which also all support BIOS updates without the need for an older CPU.
All four new 2nd Gen Threadrippers are based on the improved 12nm Zen+ architecture the company rolled out with its 2nd Gen Ryzen chips earlier this year.
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