AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review

Re:AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review by noir_lord on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:30PM (#14982679)

I have a Ryzen 1700 in the desktop I built at new job, it's performance per £ is simply staggering.

It's the first time since I got my first i5 (2500K) from an AMD64-3000 I've genuinely been staggered by performance and the desktop at my previous job was an OC'd 3570K.

Frankly the Ryzen 1700 is incredible, so much so I'm already planning on building a similar machine for home.

All that said though I'm also really impressed with the i7-7700K in the new laptop, the amount of processing power intel has shoved into a laptop is impressive as well.

Competition is good, it will be interesting to see what the mobile Ryzen's are capable off.

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Re:AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review by krylon on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:09PM (#14983041)

> I have a Ryzen 1700 in the desktop I built at new job, it's performance per £ is simply staggering.

I can confirm that, I bought a new desktop PC with a 1700 for home use around Easter, and on CPU-bound workloads with sufficient parallelism (e.g. video encoding), that thing is just insanely fast.

It's a bit of a shame, really, that most of the time it just sits there doing almost nothing. ;-)

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Re:AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review by noir_lord on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:31PM (#14983902)

Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it.

I hammer mine though and it handles it with complete aplomb.

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