Two additional benchmarks I like to see from Anandtech: 1) some VM base tests for these kind of CPU - 32, 64, 128 VM all running some kind of web/db/redis benchmarks inside. 2) Some compilation testing - time the clean build of AOSP, BSD, some very complex linux app - use max jobs setting for parallel compile and time how long it take to finish the jobs. ( measure the over CPU usages at the same time. )
AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
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Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
#72The biggest benefit I've found to running a 1950X isn't something I would have expected, but which perhaps I should have. True, it's much faster than my old system for batch processing, but most of the time it's still idle. Even if it's running Chrome flat-out, as far as the 1950X is concerned, that's idle. Because the two NUMA nodes are ~entirely independent, it's capable of running two independent processes at full…
The 1950x is looking like a viable upgrade right now as it’s becoming cheaper.
Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
#73This is the perfect chip for continuous, low-memory number crunching. For everything else... not so much. I mean, this chip consumes 74W when idle, of which almost 90% are spend on the interconnect. That's insane. Most important bit in the review for me: "After core counts, the next battle will be on the interconnect. Low power, scalable, and high performance: process node scaling will mean nothing if the interconnec…
Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not use containers instead of VMs? You can run about 10x more Docker instances than VMs on the same hardware.
If you want to run multiple different OS's (or even different distributions of the same OS) containers don't work.
Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
#75Two additional benchmarks I like to see from Anandtech: 1) some VM base tests for these kind of CPU - 32, 64, 128 VM all running some kind of web/db/redis benchmarks inside. 2) Some compilation testing - time the clean build of AOSP, BSD, some very complex linux app - use max jobs setting for parallel compile and time how long it take to finish the jobs. ( measure the over CPU usages at the same time. )
Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
#76Honest q: What home-use workstation would use 32 cores? (Excluding home labs or servers).
That’s all I’ve got.
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#78Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
#79Two additional benchmarks I like to see from Anandtech: 1) some VM base tests for these kind of CPU - 32, 64, 128 VM all running some kind of web/db/redis benchmarks inside. 2) Some compilation testing - time the clean build of AOSP, BSD, some very complex linux app - use max jobs setting for parallel compile and time how long it take to finish the jobs. ( measure the over CPU usages at the same time. )
Phoronix had it compiling the Linux kernel in 32 seconds, compared to 37.5 for the 7980XE.
Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Digital audio workstation workloads are massively multithreaded, with hundreds or thousands of DSP processes. Performance scales almost linearly with core count.
Not my experience. I've had stutters with Ableton Live on a 4 core machine with 2 cores still idling around. Ableton cannot multi-thread a single track (at least in Version 9), and if you're using a single-threaded VST that does not matter anyway.