That is the most costly AMD Ryzen CPU you should purchase, which as you would possibly suspect can also be the quickest and strongest Ryzen CPU at the moment in existence. Not even upcoming Zen 4 CPUs will change that, a minimum of not when speaking about core-heavy workloads.
The Ryzen Threadripper Professional 5995WX is a 64-core/128-thread workstation CPU that is really been out within the wild for about 5 months now. AMD introduced and launched this monstrous CPU again in March, however it was obtainable for OEMs solely. Beginning immediately, the Threadripper Professional 5000 sequence goes retail, that means now you can construct your personal insane workstation when you’ve got sufficient cash, as a result of rattling are this stuff costly.
The bottom mannequin 24-core Threadripper Professional 5965WX is available in at $2,400, the 32-core 5975WX is $3,300 and the 64-core mannequin which we’re testing immediately prices a cool $6,500.
Internally we have been utilizing the Threadripper 3970X and 3990X for video processing, all costly CPUs in their very own proper, however nonetheless cheaper than the Threadripper Professional 5000 fashions. The 3970X was $2,000, which is about 40% lower than the brand new mannequin, whereas the 3990X was conveniently priced at $3,990, as soon as once more ~40% lower than the newer Zen 3 model.
| Threadripper Professional 5995WX |
Threadripper Professional 5975WX |
Threadripper Professional 5965WX |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Value | $6,500 | $3,300 | $2,400 |
| Retail Launch | August 8, 2022 | ||
| Cores / Threads | 64 / 128 | 32/64 | 24/48 |
| Chiplets | 8 x CCD – 1 x I/OD | 4 x CCD – 1 x I/OD | |
| Base Frequency | 2.7 GHz | 3.6 GHz | 3.8 GHz |
| Max Turbo | 4.5 GHz | ||
| L3 Cache | 256 MB | 128 MB | |
| TDP | 280 watt | ||
In the event you’re questioning why the ‘Professional’ fashions price a lot extra, it is as a result of they’re legitimately extra workstation oriented. For instance, you get twice as many PCIe lanes from the CPU, 128 versus 64 whereas the present AM4 desktop components have 24 in complete, 16 for the first PCIe slot, 4 4 the first M.2 after which 4 connecting the chipset.
One other huge distinction is reminiscence assist. Whereas AM4 processors assist dual-channel reminiscence, HEDT chips just like the 3970X and 3990X make the most of quad-channel reminiscence. Nonetheless, the Threadripper Professional sequence goes a step additional by supporting octa-channel reminiscence. That is eight DDR4 reminiscence channels identical to it is supplied on Epyc server processors.
Primarily, the 5995WX that we’re testing immediately is an overclocked Epyc 7713P, although the server CPU prices much less at round $5,000 but additionally clocks a lot decrease. Talking of clock speeds, the 5995WX packs a base clock of two.7 GHz with a lift clock of 4.5 GHz, 22% larger than that of the Epyc equal. This chip consists of eight CCD’s and an I/O die, giving it 64-cores/128-threads with a beefy 256 MB L3 cache.
The 32-core/64-thread 5975WX options 4 CCD’s and an I/O die, clocks to a minimum of 3.6 GHz with the identical 4.5 GHz enhance clock. Then the 24-core/48-thread 5965WX additionally packs 4 CCD’s and an I/O die, clocks no decrease than 3.8 GHz underload with a peak working frequency of 4.5 GHz and each the 24 and 32-core variations function a 128 MB L3 cache.
All three fashions assist 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes, 2TB of DDR4-3200 octa-channel reminiscence and a TDP of 280 watts. This implies AMD has formally killed off the HEDT model of Threadripper and changed it with the workstation model known as Threadripper Professional. So what’s modified and why have they executed this?
Merely put, demand for Threadripper did not justify a extra reasonably priced model. It doubtless made sense again within the Zen and Zen+ days when mainstream desktop platforms topped out at 8 cores, however immediately 16-core fashions just like the Ryzen 9 5950X do an excellent job of satisfying the wants of most energy customers.
Additionally again within the early days of Ryzen, AMD was desperately making an attempt to realize market share in all segments, so providing compelling merchandise at as many value factors as doable made sense. At this time although, AMD appears to dominate most fronts and with completely no HEDT competitors from Intel, it isn’t a section they should fiercely compete in, and for many high-end customers the Ryzen 9 5950X will suffice.
Now, relating to WRX80 motherboards your selections are nonetheless fairly restricted with beneath a dozen fashions to select from. The boards which can be most certainly to enchantment to our viewers embrace the Gigabyte WRX80 SU8 IPMI (cool identify we all know), the Asus Professional WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WiFi (an excellent cooler identify), the Asrock WRX80 Creator, easy and to the purpose, we prefer it, after which the board we’ll be utilizing immediately, the MSI WS WRX80, once more easy and to the purpose product identify.
We may have had our choose of those WRX80 boards however we went with MSI for a number of causes. We weren’t impressed with the look of the Asrock and Gigabyte boards, these VRMs look okay for inventory 280w utilization, however a late change by AMD has seen the Threadripper Professional 5000 sequence assist overclocking, and this implies these boards will should be refreshed in the event that they wish to correctly assist OC performance for components just like the 5995WX.
Asus was additionally caught out by this late change and their board would not assist options equivalent to PBO. So it could appear taking some additional time paid off for MSI because the upcoming WS WRX80 board helps each auto overclocking within the type of AMD PBO in addition to guide overclocking management and with an 11 direct section 105A design it is already setting data, pushing the 5995WX to an insane 5.15 GHz for a rating of 116142 factors in Cinebench R23, although please be aware we’re speaking a couple of LN2 overclock right here. The purpose being although that this VRM is nice to deal with no matter you throw at it.
Having stated all that, sadly for this preliminary assessment overclocking is off the desk, and the rationale why is a little bit of an unknown. MSI says my pre-production board was examined earlier than being despatched out, and that each PBO and guide overclocking labored. Nonetheless, after a number of BIOS updates and infinite tinkering the OC options refuse to disclose themselves, and we will not work out why.
MSI will probably be offering a second board and hopefully that permits us to overclock the 5995WX, however for now we’re caught with the inventory outcomes, which we have got to say aren’t half unhealthy. We have additionally included a configuration with the ability limits eliminated. For testing, Group Group supplied 4 kits of their Group T-Pressure XTREEM ARGB DDR4-3600 CL18 reminiscence, giving us 256GB in complete, although for stability the reminiscence was restricted to DDR4-3400, not 3600. We did not have eight reminiscence modules of the identical spec, so Group Group got here in clutch, making this assessment doable alongside MSI and AMD, after all.
For comparability we have included the Threadripper 3990X which was examined on the MSI Creator TRX40 motherboard utilizing the identical Group T-ForceDDR4-3600 reminiscence at 3400. Then we have now a number of desktop CPUs for comparability: a Ryzen 9 5950X examined with dual-rank DDR4-3200 reminiscence, and the Intel Core i9-12900K utilizing DDR5-6400 reminiscence. The graphics card used for all testing is the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. Let’s get into the info…
Benchmarks
Beginning with Cinebench R23, as anticipated the 5995WX scores huge with 66403 pts inventory. Then with the ability limits eliminated that rating crept up by 5% to 69581 pts. Curiously, the 5995WX was simply 6% quicker than the 3990X, although this is not terribly stunning given the 5950X was solely round 9% quicker than the 3950X on this take a look at.
The only core good points are extra spectacular, right here the 5995WX was 14% quicker than the 3990X, but additionally 9% slower than the 5950X and virtually 30% slower than the 12900K.
We’re solely taking a look at an 8% enchancment within the 7-zip file supervisor decompression take a look at for the 5995WX over the 3990X. However this time eradicating the ability limits resulted in a barely extra spectacular 9% efficiency improve.
For code compilation work the 5995WX would not seem all that a lot quicker than the 3990X which is sensible because the 5950X was solely barely quicker than the 3950X. So for this type of workload the dearer Zen 3-based Threadripper processors in all probability aren’t definitely worth the premium.
The Corona benchmark is completed in virtually the clicking of the button when utilizing the 5995WX, taking simply 18 seconds. Nonetheless that meant it was 22% quicker than the 3990X, regardless of solely shaving 4 seconds off the completion time.
One other rendering benchmark is V-Ray and right here the 5995WX was 15% quicker than the 3990X, so not an enormous efficiency acquire, however about what we have come to anticipate for this type of workload.
Premiere Professional is of explicit curiosity to video creators and it is the place Threadripper shines. We have got extra to say about this which we’ll save for later within the assessment, however for now let’s try the Puget Techniques benchmark outcomes.
Right here the 5995WX was 28% quicker than the 3990X, which is a big efficiency benefit and this interprets into critical real-world enhancements. We imagine the elevated reminiscence bandwidth and improved single core efficiency is basically answerable for the efficiency good points seen in Adobe Premiere.
For these of you utilizing Photoshop 2022, high-core rely CPUs are a waste for essentially the most half. There is likely to be plug-ins that may make the most of extra cores for particular duties, however normally it is a evenly threaded software and subsequently larger clocked, larger IPC components just like the Core i9-12900K are higher right here.
The final software benchmark is Blender Open Knowledge and we’ll additionally have a look at energy utilization on this take a look at quickly. As soon as once more relating to rendering benchmarks the 5995WX is usually solely slightly quicker than the older 3990X, right here we’re taking a look at 7% extra efficiency, so nothing to put in writing house about.
System Energy Consumption
Energy consumption is just like the 3990X and it was attention-grabbing to see that eradicating the ability limits for the 5995WX did not see energy consumption spiral uncontrolled, in reality, we noticed little to no adjustments. It is a disgrace we could not allow PBO or do any guide overclocking, however that is one thing we will have a look at in future content material.
Gaming Benchmarks
Time for a number of gaming benchmarks, simply because you may also wish to recreation in your workstation, moderately than use a wholly separate system for that. The 5995WX is spectacular in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, delivering barely extra efficiency than the 5950X and we have now seen this prior to now. The 3990X was quicker than the 3950X, for instance.
The Hitman 3 outcomes are a bit extra typical, the place the 5995WX was barely slower than the 5950X, a mere 3% decline in efficiency which meant it was nonetheless 18% quicker than the older 3990X.
Rainbow Six Extraction sees related margins to that of Hitman 3, the 5995WX was 4% slower than the 5950X, however 10% quicker than the 3990X. Nonetheless, eradicating the ability limits allowed the 5995WX to match the 5950X.
The 5995WX was on par with the 5950X in Watch Canine: Legion making it 15% quicker than the 3990X, however a lot slower than the 12900K.
We’re additionally taking a look at comparable efficiency between the 5995WX and 5950X in Horizon Zero Daybreak, that means the brand new 64-core processor is 17% quicker than its predecessor.
Cooling
In the event you’re aware of the Threadripper 3000 processors, then this new 5000 sequence will not provide any surprises, it is principally the identical deal. The structure is far the identical and the ability consumption is far the identical, subsequently the cooling necessities are about equal.
For this assessment we used the be quiet! Silent Loop 2 360mm AIO with the be quiet! STRX4 mounting equipment. Like most AIO’s the Silent Loop 2 is not function constructed for the large Threadripper CPUs, as an alternative it was designed with LGA1200/1700 and AM4 processors in thoughts. So it would not precisely cowl your entire heatspreader of a Threadripper processor, however it will get most of it.
We did run into a problem with our construct because the Darkish Base Professional 900 Rev 2 case was unable to suit the Silent Loop 2 360mm AIO on the highest of the case because the MSI WS WRX80 motherboard is just too large, and consequently we have now 4 sticks of reminiscence precisely the place the radiator must go.
This implies we had been compelled to entrance mount the radiator which usually is not a problem, nonetheless the Silent Loop 2 water block is designed to solely be oriented in a single route with the be quiet STRX4 mounting bracket, and utilizing the proper orientation the tubes for the AIO merely would not attain with the radiator entrance mounted. So we had been compelled to put in the block backwards within the bracket which sees it positioned properly off middle on the Threadripper IHS.
Due to this fact we needed to get the Dremel out and crudely minimize a bit of the STRX4 mounting bracket, in order that the block could be positioned in a extra central location when put in backwards. Anyway, it was a little bit of messing round however we now have the block centrally situated with what seems to be good mounting strain.
In fact, we examined thermal efficiency earlier than we bought benchmarking and every thing appeared good. After an hour of looping the Cinebench R23 benchmark we hit a peak temperature of 83C, which given the ability utilization is an effective consequence. That stated, it is unlikely to be optimum and if we glance carefully on the peak core advanced die temperatures we see that solely two peaked at round 80C, then two extra which peaked within the mid to low 70s with what we assume are the 4 centrally situated CCD’s peaking at between simply 57 and 61C.
What We Discovered Utilizing the Professional
The Threadripper Professional 5995WX is a formidable processor and though for almost all of our testing it wasn’t an incredible deal quicker than the 3990X, it may be round 30% quicker relying on the workload. Nonetheless even that share acquire could be pretty meaningless in a workstation setting, so this is what occurred in ours…
As we talked about earlier than, Steve and Tim’s video modifying workstations are at the moment utilizing the Threadripper 3970X and 3990X and whereas each have been recreation altering, permitting us to stabilize dozens upon dozens of b-roll clips without delay whereas additionally offering spectacular encoding efficiency, the latest improve to a Panasonic GH6 mirrorless digital camera has precipitated a number of modifying associated complications.
The Threadripper 3000 sequence had no points with 4K60 footage from the older GH5, however once we upgraded to the GH6 we wished to begin working with 5.7K60, and this proved troublesome. In fact, we may use proxies however they’re a ache for modifying, taking much more time, and total only a extra cumbersome methodology than we favor.
We had been actively testing for options, the Core i9-12900K was wonderful at scrubbing via timelines for basic modifying, however as quickly as we wished to stabilize greater than a dozen clips without delay, the system turned unusable and would typically crash. That means we needed to stabilize clips in batches, saving after every batch was full earlier than beginning the following batch. It wasted plenty of time and the encoding course of was additionally slower.
A greater, however admittedly rather more costly resolution could be to improve to Threadripper 5000 and the 5975WX would in all probability be the most suitable choice for our wants. The very first thing we did with the 5995WX was to open one of many present tasks we had been engaged on and begin modifying. The expertise was completely completely different. At no level did the 5995WX wrestle with the 5.7K footage just like the 3990X did, even color-corrected footage with transitions performed again easily.
You would say modifying is now “extra playable,” to make use of a gaming time period.
In brief, the 5995WX is a recreation changer for our workflow and as such it is troublesome to place it into the context of share good points, it isn’t simply quicker, it is wildly extra sensible. You would say modifying is now extra playable, to make use of a gaming time period.
We would say we may simply justify spending $3,300 on the 5975WX, plus every thing else it’s worthwhile to construct the workstation PC, as it could pay itself off, each by way of productiveness and psychological well being.
On that be aware, it is troublesome to present one thing just like the 5995WX a worth ranking, if it will possibly do for you what it will possibly do for us then it is invaluable and pays for itself. It is a workstation product, designed for professionals and with no retail competitors for Intel, it is the best choice. We’re joyful AMD is giving prospects the prospect to construct their very own workstation PCs and never forcing them to purchase mediocre OEM methods, in order that in itself is a win.
We look ahead to placing the Threadripper Professional 5995WX via its paces over the approaching months and years, and we hope we will check out the 5975WX quickly as we really feel that mannequin is healthier suited to our use case.
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