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Ryzen TR 2990WX

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Release date ≈ Q3 2018.

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Average Bench: 75.3% (67th of 1182)

Based on 1,243 user benchmarks.  Device: 178BFBFF00800F82 Model: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core Processor
Poor: 63%Average: 75.3% Great: 84%
Gaming
Gaming 75%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 77%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 162%
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Good average bench

The AMD Ryzen TR 2990WX averaged 24.7% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the AMD Ryzen TR 2990WX near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Multi Core Mixed Speed 4,134Pts
Avg. Single Core Mixed Speed 111Pts

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Ryzen TR 2990WX is 21.2%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Ryzen TR 2990WX performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Quad Core Mixed Speed 416Pts
Avg. Dual Core Mixed Speed 218Pts
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,243 samples)
Rank 6775.3%
Min Avg Max
88.4 1-Core 111 123
174 2-Core 218 243
77.5% 164 Pts
Min Avg Max
348 4-Core 416 469
654 8-Core 811 914
75.8% 614 Pts
Min Avg Max
2,823 64-Core 4,134 4,861
278% 4,134 Pts
User Benchmarks Bench Normal Heavy Extreme
The fastest CPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
SP3r2, 1 CPU, 32 cores, 64 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg)
80.9% Excellent
1-Core 120
2-Core 232
83% 176 Pts
4-Core 448
8-Core 831
80% 640 Pts
64-Core 4274
287% 4274 Pts
SP3r2, 1 CPU, 32 cores, 64 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg)
75.4% Very good
1-Core 110
2-Core 205
75% 157 Pts
4-Core 419
8-Core 811
76% 615 Pts
64-Core 4038
271% 4038 Pts
SP3r2, 1 CPU, 32 cores, 64 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg)
73.4% Very good
1-Core 108
2-Core 215
76% 161 Pts
4-Core 406
8-Core 777
73% 592 Pts
64-Core 3,901
262% 3,901 Pts
SP3r2, 1 CPU, 32 cores, 64 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg)
71.7% Very good
1-Core 104
2-Core 197
71% 150 Pts
4-Core 398
8-Core 787
73% 593 Pts
64-Core 3955
265% 3955 Pts
SP3r2, 1 CPU, 32 cores, 64 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg)
69.8% Good
1-Core 99.9
2-Core 198
70% 149 Pts
4-Core 387
8-Core 770
71% 579 Pts
64-Core 3,510
236% 3,510 Pts
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 19,369,474 CPUs tested.

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Gaming 144%
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Desktop 118%
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Workstation 169%
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Motherboard: MSI MEG X399 CREATION (MS-7B92)

CPU
Ryzen TR 2990WXAMD  $1,699Bench 75%, 1,243 samples206x
GPU
RTX 2080 TiNvidia  $1,056Bench 199%, 54,773 samples178x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia  $750Bench 150%, 376,977 samples82x
RX Vega 64AMD  $400Bench 121%, 29,819 samples55x
SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $170Bench 307%, 36,273 samples83x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $90Bench 275%, 99,218 samples78x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung  $90Bench 235%, 69,854 samples78x
RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL  $227Bench 94%, 17,759 samples69x
Flare X DDR4 3200 C14 4x8GBG.SKILL  $305Bench 111%, 2,002 samples35x
Trident Z DDR4 3600 C15 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 123%, 217 samples19x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 49% - Average Total price: $3,153

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 Comments

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USA-User
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5,494

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

18 days ago.

The 2990WX is much faster than the 9900K, why is it ranked lower?

DEU-User
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3,543

Excellent

19 days ago.

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CAN-User
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2,996

Good

7 days ago.

Firstly, because you are an obsolete website still marketing performance based on single core chips, which is dumb, because all your chips on the performance page are multicore. And when you put the i9 9980xe against the 2990wx in ANY multicore mega task such as an 8k render, the 2990wx is finished hours before the 9980xe. No one buys either of these chips if they want or care about single core performance. Its not a debate, its not a discussion. No one says, lets buy a 64 thread 32 core chip, but lets decide how much better it is based on its single core performance. Intel will always have better single core performance. But what annoys me the most, is you advertise intel so prominently. How much did they buy your loyalty for? You make me sick that you can be bought. Oh, not bought? Then why does your pages always have intel at every corner with way more advertised details. For example... why is intel boasting its thread count at the top and amd nothing? They dont fill out their own data. You do. https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-TR-2990WX-vs-Intel-Core-i9-9980XE/m560423vsm652504

POL-User
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2,828

Good

23 days ago.

A really good budget cpu . I would say a base entry level cpu for editing and all that kind of stuff . Very affordable cpu and i think thats a great advantage amazing for budget builds for editing and all that stuff .

IDN-User
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2,697

Excellent

1 month ago.

Being the most powerful consumer CPU (in terms of core count), you can do extreme multitasking, video encoding/decoding or nearly anything else while costing less than the Intel i9-9980XE or Xeon W-3175X. Beware though, you'll get slower single-threaded performance and you'll get lower performance on single-threaded applications!

ROU-User
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2,587

Excellent

23 days ago.

This is the best CPU i ever seen

AUS-User
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2,414

Excellent

1 month ago.

best for money for massive work loads not a toy

BGR-User
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1,774

Excellent

1 month ago.

Real beast, the best processor for gaming and streaming at once

CHL-User
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1,640

Poor

2 months ago.

Pls buy me one for futa 3d stuff

GamingEliot
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492

Excellent

1 month ago.

WOAH.

Juhg
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342

Good

12 months ago.

Average single core performance counterbalanced with monstrous multi core capabilities.

superzen
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298

Excellent

7 months ago.

cool

quantumniko
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296

Excellent

7 months ago.

32 cores? the best...

CrylicArk
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126

Good

2 months ago.

The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX is a beast. With a whopping 32 cores and 64 threads this thing is over 45% faster in multi-core speeds compared to the 9980XE! This CPU's base clock is 3 GHz, which is very high considering we have 32 cores. For comparison, a 64 core Xeon Phi is only at 1.3 GHz! Currently, this is the fastest possessor on this website! Although in reality, it actually falls behind the 9980XE as it is slower but the only thing making the website think its faster, is that multi-core speed. Its multi-core speed is a whooping 4,000! Or course, none of this will come at a cheap price, as this thing is very expensive, although you get almost double the cores of the top tier i9 for a similar price. The value however is pretty much trash, just like all of the high end i9's and threadrippers.

Nolanimations
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60

Excellent

9 months ago.

The ultimate Ryzen CPU.

woxozzPC
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28

Good

4 months ago.

Good

ninjagamer22
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24

Excellent

8 months ago.

It is super powerful!

geistrucker
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22

Average

11 months ago.

AMD's new top-of-the-line Ryzen Threadripper is now here, boasting 32 cores at a base clock of 3.0Ghz and a boost of 4.2Ghz. On paper, it seems like a processor with tremendous value for money, with an MSRP of $1799, $200 less than Intel's top-end i9-7980XE, while offering 32 cores compared to the Intel's 18 cores. However, benchmarks show that this processor, despite its monstrous multi-core performance of over 4000 points in UserBenchmark and over 5000cb in Cinebench R15, real-world performance, especially in Windows 10 (due to Window's scheduler) is severely hampered by memory bandwidth limitations due to X399 only supporting Quad-channel ram (compared to EPYC's Octa-channel support). This means that only 2 of the 4 dies (16 cores) are directly connected to the RAM, while the remaining 2 dies have to go through the infinity fabric. Running the 2990WX on Linux improves its performance in some cases, but the memory bandwidth bottleneck is a hardware limitation. As such, in many real-world applications, the 2950X and the i9-7980XE beats the 2990WX, especially in memory intensive workloads and gaming. That being said, users should consider the 2950X, which is half the price of the 2990WX and in many applications outperforms the 2990WX.

ExecutableFiles
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22

Terrible

2 months ago.

still cant run minesweeper.

TeaEqualsLife
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18

Excellent

6 months ago.

Woo

flexotehuno
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16

Excellent

10 months ago.

insane

Syr_Hyena
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12

Excellent

10 months ago.

Though in a lot of applications, if you're using windows, you'll find its performance gets hobbled by the poor NT thread scheduler, its still very powerful - for raw multithreaded compute, at the time of release (and writing) its the most powerful publicly available single socket x86 CPU.

osku
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2

Good

2 months ago.

because shintel gets even more rekt

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