Blender 2.90 CPU Comparison 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 testing with a GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 (T15 BIOS) and llvmpipe on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Ryzen 9 3900XT: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE (MS-7C34) v1.0 (1.94 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 500GB Seagate FireCuda 520 SSD ZP500GM30002, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 56/64 8GB (1630/945MHz), Audio: AMD Vega 10 HDMI Audio, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Realtek Device 2600 + Realtek Device 3000 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.9.0-050900rc2daily20200827-generic (x86_64) 20200826, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: amdgpu 19.1.0, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.0-devel (git-31f75aa 2020-08-28 focal-oibaf-ppa) (LLVM 10.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Core i9 10980XE: Processor: Intel Core i9-10980XE @ 4.80GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASRock X299 Steel Legend (P1.30 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 32GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 PRO 512GB, Graphics: NVIDIA NV132 11GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Intel I219-V + Intel I211 OS: Ubuntu 20.10, Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 20.1.5, Compiler: GCC 10.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Threadripper 3960X: Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core @ 3.80GHz (24 Cores / 48 Threads), Motherboard: MSI Creator TRX40 (MS-7C59) v1.0 (1.12N1 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 1000GB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 5500/5500M / Pro 5500M 4GB (1900/875MHz), Audio: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Aquantia AQC107 NBase-T/IEEE + Intel I211 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.8 (LLVM 10.0.0), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Threadripper 3970X: Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core @ 3.70GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG ZENITH II EXTREME (0702 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 64GB, Disk: 1000GB Corsair Force MP600, Graphics: NVIDIA TITAN RTX 24GB (1350/7000MHz), Audio: NVIDIA TU102 HD Audio, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Aquantia AQC107 NBase-T/IEEE + Intel I211 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: NVIDIA 450.36.06, OpenGL: 4.6.0, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 11.0.185, Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 + CUDA 11.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 2 x EPYC 7742: Processor: 2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core @ 2.25GHz (128 Cores / 256 Threads), Motherboard: AMD DAYTONA_X (RDY1006G BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 504GB, Disk: 3841GB Micron_9300_MTFDHAL3T8TDP, Graphics: llvmpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Mellanox MT27710 OS: Ubuntu 20.10, Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 20.1.5 (LLVM 10.0.1 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 10.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 2 x Xeon Platinum 8280: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 @ 4.00GHz (56 Cores / 112 Threads), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 (T15 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 378GB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: llvmpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel X722 for 1GbE + 2 x QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 10/25/40/50GbE OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Blender 2.90 Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen 9 3900XT ......... 105.38 |============================================== Core i9 10980XE ........ 92.67 |======================================== Threadripper 3960X ..... 55.41 |======================== Threadripper 3970X ..... 45.35 |==================== 2 x EPYC 7742 .......... 25.00 |=========== 2 x Xeon Platinum 8280 . 38.45 |================= Blender 2.90 Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen 9 3900XT ......... 301.96 |============================================== Core i9 10980XE ........ 282.24 |=========================================== Threadripper 3960X ..... 155.81 |======================== Threadripper 3970X ..... 124.24 |=================== 2 x EPYC 7742 .......... 49.88 |======== 2 x Xeon Platinum 8280 . 104.63 |================ Blender 2.90 Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen 9 3900XT ......... 139.60 |============================================== Core i9 10980XE ........ 126.81 |========================================== Threadripper 3960X ..... 73.41 |======================== Threadripper 3970X ..... 61.32 |==================== 2 x EPYC 7742 .......... 36.41 |============ 2 x Xeon Platinum 8280 . 60.65 |==================== Blender 2.90 Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen 9 3900XT ......... 439.73 |============================================== Core i9 10980XE ........ 389.04 |========================================= Threadripper 3960X ..... 242.38 |========================= Threadripper 3970X ..... 191.36 |==================== 2 x EPYC 7742 .......... 98.99 |========== 2 x Xeon Platinum 8280 . 165.53 |================= Blender 2.90 Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen 9 3900XT ......... 336.08 |============================================== Core i9 10980XE ........ 310.97 |=========================================== Threadripper 3960X ..... 174.90 |======================== Threadripper 3970X ..... 142.98 |==================== 2 x EPYC 7742 .......... 66.22 |========= 2 x Xeon Platinum 8280 . 119.24 |================