

When it comes to raw compute throughput, Cinebench is an excellent, consistent gauge of system resources and horsepower. Here the Alienware system and AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-core processor puts a beat down on Intel's 10-core Core i9-7900X to the tune of over a 37 percent performance advantage, and it's over 60 percent faster than the previous gen 10-core Intel Core i7-6950X. At similar price points of $999, for either a Core i9-7900X (actually currently street for ~ $1059) or a Ryzen Threadripper 1950X, this shows a big value proposition for AMD's new monster chip.

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, to rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. It has a built-in benchmarking tool that tracks the time it takes to complete rendering a particular model. We used a CPU-focused BMW model for the tests that follow.





Here Ryzen Threadripper 1950X in the Alienware Area-51 completes its render over a half minute faster than the Core i9-7900X. In longer, heavier-duty workloads, this sort of performance delta can save significant time and resources for a complex rendering job.



Alienware Area-51 With Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 3DMark Time Spy Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy is a DirectX 12 graphics benchmark test. Futuremark notes that Time Spy is "built from the ground up to support new features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading. While Time Spy is a primarily a graphics card and gaming performance test, it also portrays general system performance under gaming workloads and has a specific CPU benchmark module as well.

