AMD are upping their marketing game for their recently introduced Zen 4 based Threadripper line of workstation processors, with AMD themselves breaking several world records with their flagship Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX featuring a staggering 96-cores, 192 threads, packing in 384MB of L3 cache and 128 PCIe Gen 5 lanes for an impressive $10,000 price tag.
AMD are really just flexing on the competition at this stage by orchestrating this affair, with their main competitor, Intel lacking seriously behind in terms of single-core performance, multi-core performance, overall core count, power efficiency, with the supposedly “modular” design of their Sapphire Rapids server lineup which peaks at just 60-cores with an equal 350W TDP for the low price of just $17,000 for the Xeon Platinum 8490H.
Which gets utterly demolished by AMD’s current lineup of EPYC processors, of which Threadripper is merely a waste byproduct of EPYC silicon.
AMD have shared several benchmark results of their flagship Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX breaking several world records across the Cinebench family suite with their in-house overclocking PR agent, “SAMPSON” now holding several records to his name on HWBot.
AMD having previously shared an impressive OC figure of 4.8GHz across all cores with mundane air cooling in the form of IceGiant’s ProSiphon Elite, AMD was able to cream several world record entries on Cinebench with the Threadripper processor consuming a monstrous 980 watts in peak power and reaching temperatures as high as 102 degrees celcisus.
Cinebench as a benchmarking utility for these kinds of enterprise / server level hardware is quite worthless considering how the software itself is extremely limited in terms of how many overall threads it can actually leverage, maxing out at a peak of 128 processing threads which leaves quite a lot of theoretical scoring on the table for the likes of AMD’s 96-core, 192-thread behemoth.
It’s actually staggering that despite only leveraging just ~70% utilization it was still able to consume almost a thousand watts in power draw, and yet its temperature was loosely kept in check with an enthusiast class air cooling solution.
Intel’s Core i9-14900K for example despite pulling a third of the overall wattage as the Threadripper manages to reach similar temperatures with even greater cooling solutions.
AMD then upped the anti by once again running and submitting more results, this time utilizing a liquid cooling solution that saw increased core frequencies on the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX CPU.
In contrast to the air-cooled performance, which achieved 161,259 points in Cinebench R23, the liquid-cooled benchmark showcases an impressive 167,309 points, signifying a notable 3.7% improvement.
Cinebench R20 with water cooling was met with 62,500 points, a marginal 1.5% increase over the results while under air cooling mainly due to the marginal increase in overall core frequency to the sum of around 100MHz.
The result for Cinebench R15 while under water was 25,189 points, the largest increase at 6.3% over the previous air cooled submission.
It hasn’t even been a year since Intel demonstrated their Xeon W9-3495X CPU, featuring 56-cores and 112-threads overclocked on Liquid Nitrogen, pushing Intel’s server product to a frequency of 5.4GHz and taking the Cinebench R23 record with 132,484 points.
This was only back in March, and AMD now hold a 21.7% lead over that LN2 submission with their current crop of Ryzen Threadripper processors, it’s genuinely sad to see Intel disappear completely from the workstation and server market entirely.
This marketing stunt goes to show just how much superior AMD’s offerings are in comparison to Intel’s current generation Xeon hardware, with AMD holding a dominate lead in outright performance, to the point where they’re hitting the arbitrary thread limits of Cinebench itself, while offering far greater efficiency in comparison to Xeon, with their 96-core processors able to roughly push 4.8GHz across all cores, cooled on air despite consuming over 980W under load.
