AMD once again have a top performance crown

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_benchmark-cinebench_r15_multi_core-8

by ibobev • 8 years ago

56 24 8 years ago

For some things, like compressing files, they are really good. But game performance still benefits from strong single core where Intel is the best still, unfortunately.

twblalock• 8 years ago

I think choice of GPU matters more to game performance these days than the CPU does.

diamondlovesyou• 8 years ago

Not for some games, where low settings are used on purpose. The CPU is the bottleneck in those cases. cough Overwatch cough.

skunkworker• 8 years ago

Honestly the price difference is frankly incredible.

2990WX - $1799

Xeon Platinum 8180M - $16999 to $17999.

theevilsharpie• 8 years ago

The 2990WX doesn't support registered memory, which currently limits it to 128GB of RAM.

Nobody seriously looking at a Xeon 8180M would consider the 2990WX as a suitable alternative. The closest competitor from AMD is the Epyc 7601.

acchow• 8 years ago

Epyc 7610 - $4800

Xeon Platinum 8180M - $16999 to $17999

Still 275% more expensive...

Keyframe• 8 years ago

A crown in a select of one benchmark, which is even questionable if it's optimised for all and every CPU benchmarked.

Great title, OP.

craftyguy• 8 years ago

... on one synthetic benchmark.

pella• 8 years ago

Anandtech:"The AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review"

https://www.anandtech.com/print/13124/the-amd-threadripper-2...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749738 ( 322 points )

Phoronix:"A Look At The Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX"

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2990wx-l...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17756266 ( 234 points )

ApostleMatthew2• 8 years ago

I wish tech review sites would do a molecular dynamics benchmark for processors like these. It's pretty easy to set up just a simple MD simulation, and there'd be tens of us interested in seeing the results.

mattst88• 8 years ago

The Phoronix test suite is open source. If patches were provided, I feel confident the result would be new benchmarks included in his articles.

lolc2• 8 years ago

There are only AMD and Intel products in that list. I understand they have effectively ruled out competition with comprehensive patent coverage.

binmanthrowaway• 8 years ago

Nobody prevents anyone from creating competing CPU. It just won't have x86 instruction set.

lolc2• 8 years ago

Nobody prevents anyone from creating competing CPU.

I'm pretty sure that Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM and a host of others would disagree if you actually tried.

BuildTheRobots• 8 years ago

It looks like VIA[1] are actually planning on bringing out an AMD64[2] compatible CPU- though I honestly wonder if it'll get any traction at all (it could be interesting in the low power space assuming it can even vaguely compete on price).

[1] https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3023729/via-techno...

[2] Yeah, I know we're supposed to call it x86-64 these days, but lets take a moment and remember some of the brilliance AMD can be capable of. And thank the gods we're not stuck with Itanium.

fermienrico• 8 years ago

This is an absurd claim:

- No single threaded performance benchmarks

- No performance/watt benchmarks

- No tests under various real world loads

p1necone2• 8 years ago

For the kinds of workloads you'd buy one of these for I don't think single threaded performance is really relevant. Your other two points are good though.

akuma73• 8 years ago

Have you heard of Amdahl’s law?

p1mrx• 8 years ago

Here's the corresponding single-threaded benchmark:

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_benchmark-cinebench_r15_si...

You have to scroll down quite a bit to find AMD, but it's nice to see that they've comfortably passed my i7-4770.

mchahn• 8 years ago

Threadripper should win an award for product-naming.

AMD once again have a top performance crown

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