In its review, LinusTechTips pitted the 12-core Ryzen Threadripper 1950X against a stock ten-core Intel Core i9-7900X processor because they’re similar in price. That said, the benchmarks won’t be a fair 12-core to 12-core chip comparison, and LinuxTechTips also threw in stock mainstream desktop processors into the benchmarking mix as well, including the four-core Intel Core i7-7700K, and the eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 1800X.

First, we have the chips’ performance with Rise of the Tomb Raider (higher is better):

DirectX 11 DirectX 12 Intel Core i9-7900K (X299) 68FPS 67FPS Intel Core i7-7700K (Z270) 68FPS 65FPS AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (X399) 68FPS 63FPS AMD Ryzen 7 1800X (X370) 67FPS 62FPS

Overall, the scores here range from 62 to 68 frames per second, and only vary when DirectX 12 is in play. The site doesn’t state the resolution and graphics level they were using during the benchmark testing, as the benchmark itself doesn’t provide any adjustable settings, but instead relies on whatever you set in the game’s main Options menu. This benchmark spans three test scenarios – Geothermal Valley, Syria, and Mountain Peak – and provides an overall average generated from the three.

For the record, we benchmarked the GTX 1080 GPU and Intel’s Core i7-6820HK CPU in an Alienware 17 R4 laptop, and got an average of 59.29 fps at a 2,560 x 1,440 resolution, high/very high settings, and using DirectX 12. The results in the chart above rely on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card, so we suspect the results are based on a 3,840 x 2,160 resolution, and the same maximum graphics settings.

Now here are the 3DMark numbers (higher is better):

Fire Strike Ultra Time Spy Time Spy (CPU) Intel Core i9-7900K (X299) 6,896 9,586 11,081 AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (X399) 6,857 9,297 8,822 AMD Ryzen 7 1800X (X370) 6,709 8,876 7,725 Intel Core i7-7700K (Z270) 6,728 8,494 5,759

Next is Cinebench Release 15 using the multi-threaded workload benchmark (higher is better):

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (X399) 2,876 Intel Core i9-7900K (X299) 2,146 AMD Ryzen 7 1800X (X370) 1,616 Intel Core i7-7700K (Z270) 975

Finally, the review used Blender 2.78c to test Ryzen Threadripper’s time to render 3D objects and environments (lower is better):

BMW Classroom AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (X399) 2:50.59 9:21.54 Intel Core i9-7900K (X299) 3:28.16 11:29.47 AMD Ryzen 7 1800X (X370) 4:59.27 16:32.30 Intel Core i7-7700K (Z270) 7:19.58 25:07.67

Ultimately, PC gamers wanting to dump loads of cash into a new desktop can purchase the Alienware Area-51 Threadripper Edition model right now. Here are the starting points:

$3,000 $3,200 $3,550 $4,400 Processor AMD 1950X AMD 1950X AMD 1950X AMD 1950X Graphics GTX 1060 GTX 1060 GTX 1070 GTX 1080 Ti Memory 8GB DDR4

@ 2,667MHz 16GB DDR4

@ 2,667MHz 16GB DDR4

@ 2,667MHz 32GB DDR4

@ 2,667MHz Storage 2TB HDD 128GB M.2 SATA SSD

2TB HDD 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD

2TB HDD 1TB M.2 PCIe SSD

2TB HDD

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