AMD Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-Series: Three CPUs tested!

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Cinebench R23 nT

Cinebench R23 1T

Looking at multi-threaded rendering, it is easy to see the segregation between the mainstream desktop CPUs and the workstation orientated ones.

Put simply, the 128-thread Threadripper Pro 5995WX is an absolute rendering powerhouse. It completes its Blender rendering task in less than half the time of the Ryzen 9 7950X, meaning that a doubling of work queue throughput is achievable.

The 32-core 5975WX is no slouch, either, and sits nicely between the 24- and 64-core models.

Looking at the 5965WX though, this is clearly a processor that is better suited for its arsenal of memory bandwidth and connectivity, as opposed to its raw compute horsepower. And that’s because the less-than-£700, Zen 4-based Ryzen 9 7950X is almost as fast, but much cheaper.

Single-threaded performance is unsurprisingly weak. But that’s because we are looking at Zen 3 cores and clocks in the world of Zen 4 and Raptor Lake.

The key reference point here, however, is that AMD’s lightly threaded performance isn’t significantly disadvantaged when comparing to the chips with the same architecture. This is testament to the excellent abilities of AMD’s Precision Boost 2 algorithm.

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