Threadripper 1950X Linux AMD CPU Comparison AMD Threadripper 1950X Linux benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com comparing various high-end desktop Intel and AMD processors. Intel Core i9 7900X: Processor: Intel Core i7-7900X @ 4.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 525GB Crucial_CT525MX3 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170825, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.3.0-devel- padoka PPA (LLVM 6.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS: Processor: Intel Core i9-7900X @ 4.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X299 AORUS Gaming 3-CF, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 4 x 16384 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Micron, Disk: 480GB INTEL SSDSC2BP48 + 250GB INTEL SSDSC2MH25 + 480GB INTEL SSDSC2BW48 + 320GB Seagate ST9320423AS + 600GB INTEL SSDSC2BB60 + 480GB VK0480GDJXV, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Network: Intel Connection OS: Clear Linux OS 17450, Kernel: 4.12.9-382.native (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0 + Clang 4.0.1 + LLVM 4.0.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X: Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core @ 3.40GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X399 AORUS Gaming 7, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 525GB Crucial_CT525MX3 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Device e0b1 + Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170825, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.3.0-devel- padoka PPA (LLVM 6.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 66.11 |================================= Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 60.63 |============================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 43.25 |====================== Rodinia 2.4 Performance / Cost - Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 66043.89 |========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 43206.75 |=========================== Rodinia 2.4 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 89 AVG: 272 MAX: 281 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 254 AVG: 255 MAX: 255 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 882.56 |========================= Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 944.08 |=========================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 1097.82 |=============================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Performance / Cost - Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 0.88 |===================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 1.10 |============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 4.21 |======================================= Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 5.02 |============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 89 AVG: 210 MAX: 249 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 135 AVG: 219 MAX: 261 John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 21304 |============================== Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 19883 |============================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 23091 |================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Performance / Cost - Test: Blowfish Real C/S Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 21.33 |========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 23.11 |============================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 105.02 |===================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 125.85 |============================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 89 AVG: 203 MAX: 274 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 120 AVG: 183 MAX: 252 OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 1958.30 |============================ Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 1959.53 |============================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 2200.93 |=============================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g Performance / Cost - RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 1.96 |========================================= Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 2.20 |============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 8.45 |======================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 9.77 |============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 93 AVG: 232 MAX: 253 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 171 AVG: 225 MAX: 237 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 48.37 |============================================= Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 44.78 |========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Performance / Cost - Time To Compile Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 48321.63 |========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 44735.22 |======================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 120 AVG: 256 MAX: 293 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 111 AVG: 212 MAX: 264 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 6.99 |============================= Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 8.10 |================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 4.16 |================= C-Ray 1.1 Performance / Cost - Total Time Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 6983.01 |=========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 4155.84 |========================== Tensorflow 2017-02-03 Build: Cifar10 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 63.66 |================================ Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 31.29 |================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 65.53 |================================= Tensorflow 2017-02-03 Performance / Cost - Build: Cifar10 Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 63596.34 |========================================= Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 65464.47 |========================================== Tensorflow 2017-02-03 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 89 AVG: 231 MAX: 260 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 113 AVG: 181 MAX: 204 Xsbench 2017-07-06 Lookups/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 3366854 |=============================== Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 3312130 |============================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 2917754 |=========================== Xsbench 2017-07-06 Performance / Cost - Lookups/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 3370.22 |=========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 2920.67 |===================================== Xsbench 2017-07-06 Lookups/s Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 15835.89 |========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 13851.19 |===================================== Xsbench 2017-07-06 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 89 AVG: 213 MAX: 256 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 125 AVG: 211 MAX: 271 Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 13.24 |============================================= Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 11.38 |======================================= Darktable 2.2.1 Performance / Cost - Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 13226.76 |========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 11368.62 |==================================== Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 6.91 |================================= Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 9.63 |============================================== Darktable 2.2.1 Performance / Cost - Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 6903.09 |=============================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 9620.37 |=========================================== Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 4.48 |==================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 5.67 |============================================== Darktable 2.2.1 Performance / Cost - Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 4475.52 |================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 5664.33 |=========================================== Blender 2.78c Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 435.02 |=========================== Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 441.67 |=========================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 518.35 |================================ Blender 2.78c Performance / Cost - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 434584.98 |================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 517831.65 |========================================= Blender 2.78c System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 118 AVG: 181 MAX: 247 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 117 AVG: 171 MAX: 226 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 4.69 |============================== Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 4.37 |============================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 5.25 |================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 Performance / Cost - WAV To FLAC Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 4685.31 |====================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 5244.75 |=========================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 114 AVG: 116 MAX: 120 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 115 AVG: 120 MAX: 123 FFTW 3.3.6 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 4096 Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 18924 |================================= Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 16810 |============================= Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 16154 |============================ FFTW 3.3.6 Performance / Cost - Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 4096 Mflops Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 18.94 |============================================= Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 16.17 |====================================== FFTW 3.3.6 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 4096 Mflops Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 154.09 |============================================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 126.60 |==================================== FFTW 3.3.6 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 106 AVG: 123 MAX: 144 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 123 AVG: 128 MAX: 149 Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 48429.41 |============================ Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 52014.14 |============================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 28575.81 |================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Performance / Cost - Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 48.48 |============================================= Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 28.60 |=========================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 312.37 |============================================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 185.94 |========================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 95 AVG: 155 MAX: 168 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 110 AVG: 154 MAX: 163 PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 6331.29 |=============== Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 12747.94 |============================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 7722.22 |================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Performance / Cost - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 6.34 |====================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 7.73 |============================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 44.55 |====================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 52.62 |============================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 89 AVG: 142 MAX: 157 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 110 AVG: 147 MAX: 176 Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 2046839.04 |====================== Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 2650798.33 |============================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 1610235.04 |================= Redis 3.0.1 Performance / Cost - Test: SET Requests Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 2048.89 |=========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 1611.85 |================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 21276.91 |========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 14545.94 |============================= Redis 3.0.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 89 AVG: 96 MAX: 112 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 110 AVG: 111 MAX: 111 Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 2657837.75 |====================== Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 3360820.75 |============================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 2087173.67 |================= Redis 3.0.1 Performance / Cost - Test: GET Requests Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 2660.50 |=========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 2089.26 |================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 29796.39 |========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 18962.81 |=========================== Redis 3.0.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 89 AVG: 89 MAX: 90 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 110 AVG: 110 MAX: 110 Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 64.41 |================================= Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 11.21 |====== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 37.16 |=================== Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Performance / Cost - Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 64345.59 |========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 37122.84 |======================== Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 97 AVG: 116 MAX: 128 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 121 AVG: 124 MAX: 126 lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 476 |================================== Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 491 |=================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 458 |================================= lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 593 |================================ Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 646 |=================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 499 |=========================== lzbench 2017-08-08 Performance / Cost - Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 0.59 |============================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 0.50 |======================================= lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 5.13 |============================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 4.10 |===================================== lzbench 2017-08-08 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 103 AVG: 116 MAX: 120 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 110 AVG: 122 MAX: 125 lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 40 |================================ Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 45 |==================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 32 |========================== lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X .................. 111 |================================= Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 116 |=================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X ............. 99 |============================== lzbench 2017-08-08 Performance / Cost - Test: XZ 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 0.11 |============================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 0.10 |========================================== lzbench 2017-08-08 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 0.95 |============================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 0.82 |======================================== lzbench 2017-08-08 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 89 AVG: 117 MAX: 127 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 116 AVG: 121 MAX: 123 ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 259.13 |============================================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 193.63 |================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 282.01 |============================================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 260.26 |========================================= Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 302.54 |========================================== Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 320.15 |============================================ Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X ...... 216.59 |============================================ Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . 214.27 |============================================ System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Watts Intel Core i9 7900X ...... MIN: 88 AVG: 180 MAX: 402 Ryzen Threadripper 1950X . MIN: 109 AVG: 172 MAX: 384 Darktable 2.2.5 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 9.48 |================================== Darktable 2.2.5 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 5.16 |================================== Darktable 2.2.5 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i9 7900X - Clear Linux OS . 3.59 |==================================