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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Ryzen Threadripper 2950X sales on August 2018. This is high-end ZEN+ architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 16 cores and 32 threads, and is based on 12 manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4400 and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is processor with a TDP of 180 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.

It provides outstanding benchmark performance at 93.49 percent of a leader's which is Intel Core i9-7980XE.

General info Technical specs Memory Benchmarks Gaming Intel equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Ryzen Threadripper 2950X processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

Value for money (0-100)

8.50

Type

Desktop

Achitecture codename

ZEN+

Release date

August 2018

Price now

$899.99

of 8684.5 (Xeon E5-4650L)

Technical specs

Ryzen Threadripper 2950X's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Ryzen Threadripper 2950X's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Number of cores

Number of threads

Maximum frequency

4.4 GHz

of 5 (Core i9-9900K)

L1 cache

96 KB (per core)

of 768

L2 cache

512 KB (per core)

of 16384

L3 cache

32768 KB

of 65536

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

of 7 (Qualcomm Snapdragon 855)

Die size

213 mm²

Transistor count

9600 million

of 19200 (Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX)

64 bit support

Unlocked

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen Threadripper 2950X compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.

Max number of CPUs in a configuration

of 8

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

of 320 (Xeon Phi 7295)

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen Threadripper 2950X are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen Threadripper 2950X.

Supported memory types

DDR4

CPU benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Ryzen Threadripper 2950X. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

93.49

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

1.9

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

27.1

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

176

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

3110

WinRAR 4.0

4548

x264 encoding pass 1

202

x264 encoding pass 2

145

TrueCrypt AES

19.5

Passmark

25972

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Ryzen Threadripper 2950X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Fortnite

2018

Official system requirements

Ryzen Threadripper 2950X performance compared to Fortnite official system requirements.

Ryzen Threadripper 2950X

minimum Core i3-530

recommended Core i5-650

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)

2017

Ryzen Threadripper 2950X

minimum Pentium D 915

recommended Pentium D 915

Relative perfomance

Overall Ryzen Threadripper 2950X performance compared to nearest competitors. All CPU types participate.

106.96 %

Intel Core i9-7980XE

100 %

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX

89.43 %

Intel Core i9-7920X

85 %

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X

Intel equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Ryzen Threadripper 2950X from Intel is Core i9-7960X, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our rating.