AMD's 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 3990X has already been pushed to 5.55GHz by OC pros

[WYP]

Sometimes, 64 cores just isn't enough.



Read more about Pro overclockers pushing AMD's Threadripper 3990X above 5GHz.

 

[Dawelio]

This overclock was completed on an ASRock TRX40 Taichi motherboard with two 1250W power supplies

 

[AlienALX]

It'll eat about 500w alone on air lol.

 

[Warchild]

435Watt at load yikes!

edit*

Taken from Guru3D

What will scare the living bejeezus out of you however is the 'Ryze' of power consumption with all 64 cores @ 3800 MHz and full load. That's double what it was initially. So the question is not 'can you overclock Threadripper processors', but rather, 'do you really want to overclock?'.

With a picture of a wattmeter at 841Watt

 

[NeverBackDown]

435Watt at load yikes!

edit*

Taken from Guru3D



With a picture of a wattmeter at 841Watt

Not that bad honestly. Not sure what you could expect? 435watts is still on par roughly with other Zen 2 CPUs at around 7 watts per core.

 

[Warchild]

Not that bad honestly. Not sure what you could expect? 435watts is still on par roughly with other Zen 2 CPUs at around 7 watts per core.

I agree. I am still stuck 5 years in the past. Need to get my head around the direction we are taking with architecture now.

That being said. I looked again at the intro to the Guru3D review. I just love this wording used. It makes me wonder, what Intel's next steps really are. We hear one thing on the media but what goes on behind closed doors is probably far more tense and hostile.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X (64c/128t)

The year is 2020 and today we are reviewing a new processor, a processor that reaches biblical proportions as, when it's fully utilized, it offers so much raw performance there is literally nothing comparable on the market, from any competitor. We review the all-new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, the behemoth of processors has actually made it to the home office and pro-consumer market at prices that will baffle Intel. This mega-core processor has 64 physical processor cores and 128 logical cores, all powered by ZEN2 architecture. This review is about to shock, awe and then some.

Love it!

 

[NeverBackDown]

Lol the pro AMD is surely showing. Not sure Intel will come back to them next time around... kinda just proves their point though.

 

[AlienALX]

Lol the pro AMD is surely showing. Not sure Intel will come back to them next time around... kinda just proves their point though.

Intel have released a lot of pointless willy waving CPUs. Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad Extreme, 980x, 990x and so on. All of which were pointless because the regular part (or Xeon) overclocked just as easily you just had to do more of it yourself.

Then the 5960x and so on and so on. IE pointless for nearly all users on a desktop PC.

It hasn't stopped them though.

This CPU is daft, but it's really nice to see AMD in a position of "Because we can" rather than "Because we have to". I hope it does well

 

[NeverBackDown]

Not really sure what you're talking about. I was just stating how Intel probably won't be back to Guru3d for benchmark sample the next CPU launch due to the harshness quote above(assuming rest of the article was written similarly).

That said while I agree the 64 core Ryzen cpu is kinda just pointless, that's just me. I'm sure there's a market for such CPUs. Professional environments of course. Hell probably 4k streaming for the lols too.

 

[WYP]

THB, AMD released this so they had a halo product that Intel cannot match. It's a statement.

Yes, this CPU will be very useful for niche markets, but it won't be selling with insane volumes. These CPUs will have decent margins, but it won't do much to help AMD's bottom line. That said, having a CPU like this will help drive sales for their lower-tier products.

 

[AlienALX]

THB, AMD released this so they had a halo product that Intel cannot match. It's a statement.

Yes, this CPU will be very useful for niche markets, but it won't be selling with insane volumes. These CPUs will have decent margins, but it won't do much to help AMD's bottom line. That said, having a CPU like this will help drive sales for their lower-tier products.

Aye it's pure willy waving and good on them.

 

[NeverBackDown]

THB, AMD released this so they had a halo product that Intel cannot match. It's a statement.

Yes, this CPU will be very useful for niche markets, but it won't be selling with insane volumes. These CPUs will have decent margins, but it won't do much to help AMD's bottom line. That said, having a CPU like this will help drive sales for their lower-tier products.

You are definitely on the money here.

 

[Warchild]

Not really sure what you're talking about. I was just stating how Intel probably won't be back to Guru3d for benchmark sample the next CPU launch due to the harshness quote above(assuming rest of the article was written similarly).

That said while I agree the 64 core Ryzen cpu is kinda just pointless, that's just me. I'm sure there's a market for such CPUs. Professional environments of course. Hell probably 4k streaming for the lols too.

I wondered the same. But Johnny is quite unbiased on these sorts of things. He is like Tom, says it as he sees it. I would say his review is quite a fair analysis of AMD new offering. Still giving Intel KotH for gaming though, but.. who the hell would get this with the focus on gaming

 

[AlienALX]

Not really sure what you're talking about. I was just stating how Intel probably won't be back to Guru3d for benchmark sample the next CPU launch due to the harshness quote above(assuming rest of the article was written similarly).

That said while I agree the 64 core Ryzen cpu is kinda just pointless, that's just me. I'm sure there's a market for such CPUs. Professional environments of course. Hell probably 4k streaming for the lols too.

I'm talking about releasing a 64 core desktop CPU that is for the most part pointless. TBH? The original TR was pointless to all but everyone.

I'll explain that for you too, so you don't take it in the wrong context.

How many of us bought TR at launch? How many builds have you seen going on with TR in them? I've seen pretty much none. Even on pro modding sites.

Right so going back to my point and the context of it. This CPU is total willy waving. They even gave it a novelty price. You seem to have reacted like that was a bad thing? IDK why. What I meant was good on them, they should be doing exactly that.

Linus could only find about two uses for it.

16 cores? Yeah I can dig that. 32? Bit early. 64 though?

Thankfully AMD have had Intel spend billions on R&D for multi core support for them LOL, so hey in two years time 64 cores may be more than worth it if you're Pixar.