News Threadripper Pro 7985WX Is Over 20% Faster Than Threadripper Pro 5995WX In Geekbench 6

[Admin]

Someone has benchmarked the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7985WX with Geekbench 6.

Threadripper Pro 7985WX Is Over 20% Faster Than Threadripper Pro 5995WX In Geekbench 6 : Read more

 

[-Fran-]

These are true monster CPUs with a monster price to match, for sure.

The cheapest entry is going to be around $2.6K between motherboard, RAM and the CPU. For the PRO variants, it'll be even higher.

Regards.

 

[healthy Pro-teen]

These are true monster CPUs with a monster price to match, for sure.

The cheapest entry is going to be around $2.6K between motherboard, RAM and the CPU. For the PRO variants, it'll be even higher.

Regards.

And it's not even the highest end, that's the 7995WX!

 

[zecoeco]

This article is a complete waste of time, speculating the performance of 'unreleased' CPU based on one single benchmarking tool.

 

[Makaveli]

This article is a complete waste of time, speculating the performance of 'unreleased' CPU based on one single benchmarking tool.

This is why we disregard geekbench always.

 

[CerianK]

It looks like the entire 79xxWX product stack is now up on PassMark: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

 

[Ravestein NL]

TR 7985WX performance "pretty impressive"?
I don't think so with higher clocks, larger L2 cache and of course the 70W extra powerdraw.
If this cpu had shown these numbers at the same TDP (280W) as the previous gen then I would find it impressive.
This is to me more like a refresh of the older gen TR CPU.
Only PCIe 5 instead of PCIe 4 and that's about it.

 

[JamesJones44]

TR 7985WX performance "pretty impressive"?
I don't think so with higher clocks, larger L2 cache and of course the 70W extra powerdraw.
If this cpu had shown these numbers at the same TDP (280W) as the previous gen then I would find it impressive.
This is to me more like a refresh of the older gen TR CPU.
Only PCIe 5 instead of PCIe 4 and that's about it.

Yes and no.

Power usage per core actually came down for 7995 (7995wx is 3.65 (350/96) vs 5995wx 4.38 (280/64)). Depending on how these are being used that may actually save on cooling (and maybe power if TDP and power draw are close). In a cloud VM environment for example, 2 7995wx's would be the same as running 3 5995wx's (700 watts vs 840 watts of TDP).

This however isn't true for the rest of the lineup. The 5975 and the 7975 have the same core count with a higher TDP for. It does seem as if the performance gains do largely come from clock ramp and core expansion.

 

[tamalero]

Has there been any leak about motherboard prices?
I assume they will be above 500$ each one?

 

[blazorthon]

TR 7985WX performance "pretty impressive"?
I don't think so with higher clocks, larger L2 cache and of course the 70W extra powerdraw.
If this cpu had shown these numbers at the same TDP (280W) as the previous gen then I would find it impressive.
This is to me more like a refresh of the older gen TR CPU.
Only PCIe 5 instead of PCIe 4 and that's about it.

It doesn't have higher power draw. The TDP changing doesn't mean much of anything. If TDP was equated with power draw, you would have to also think the different core count SKUs all have the same power consumption despite the huge range in varying core counts. That's not the case.

Yes and no.

Power usage per core actually came down for 7995 (7995wx is 3.65 (350/96) vs 5995wx 4.38 (280/64)). Depending on how these are being used that may actually save on cooling (and maybe power if TDP and power draw are close). In a cloud VM environment for example, 2 7995wx's would be the same as running 3 5995wx's (700 watts vs 840 watts of TDP).

This however isn't true for the rest of the lineup. The 5975 and the 7975 have the same core count with a higher TDP for. It does seem as if the performance gains do largely come from clock ramp and core expansion.

The gains come from the same place as the gains from Ryzen 5800X to Ryzen 7800X. Somewhat improved architecture, improved manufacturing process node (both of which together allowed for higher frequencies), higher cache, faster RAM, etc. None of this is new stuff. We already saw how much of an improvement Zen4 CPUs brought to the table with the Ryzen 7000 lineup and with the new EYPC CPUs this year as well. The only thing "new" about it is letting HEDT/workstation users have it with overclocking support.