Threadripper 7980X has landed. (monster)

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Threadripper 7000 looks kinda nuts. 96-cores, quad-channel DDR5, and MEGA motherboards. Here's what I think of the 7970X and 7980X.

0:00 Intro + specs
1:51 Monster TRX50 motherboard
3:09 Test setup, 6400 DDR5
3:58 Benchmarks
8:20 Power + temps
9:10 Nuclear OC
10:36 Overall thoughts

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[denisruskin]

Dude you can fit a small indie game on the cache of the 7995WX. The times.

[vladdimitrov]

Kinda crazy to think that at some point 10 years from now, this will be retro tech going for $18 per CPU on eBay like older Xeons are now.

[LoerdNoerd]

I was working in scientific computing for a couple of years and this is where these CPUs shine. Brute force numerical calculations - in my case, modeling of chemical reactions using approximations to Schroedinger's equation.

[spencerjones]

I'm a Mechanical Engineer and these things are made for FEA and CFD. You're utlizing the multi-core capabilities to the max, and RAM is king in models that easily run on hundereds of gigs of RAM. You're also writing terabytes at a time, so fast PCIe and storage make a huge difference. When people ask who would pay that much for a CPU, it's the engineers who would can use this hardware to iterate faster, save development costs, and even use generative design solutions.

[PandaMoniumHUN]

As a software eng. I would love to see some compile times (Firefox or Chromium, maybe Linux kernel with all modules) in the benchmarks section. Maybe next time. :)

[capsilogs]

the camera angles in your videos are crazyyy just love how you get creative man!

[roaskywalker]

Congrats again for a simple and objective review!

[smallrtech]

The thing is with GPU rendering, I can't use even a 4090 for rendering my 3D scenes, not enough ram, not even on a A5000. As soon as you are using udim workflow extensively with a large number of texture GPU is over. For motion design or product viz gpu rendering is very good, for full cg scenes rip.
For 3D artists out there, don't fall into the "fastest rendering hardware" trap, buy the hardware that can actually render what you need to do.

[dargly]

bread ripper the way it so god damn expensive

[slif]

Thank you for the practical reviews/comparisons. Especially for us 3D artists it helps A LOT to see it. Keep up the top notch work!

[astrea]

I wish the mainstream regular motherboards looked as slick and cool as these pro motherboards

[HardwareFRA]

Clean video and nice editing as always. Keep it up !

[javiej]

It is not for everybody, but it is excellent for some workflows:
- Virtualization
- VFX (exr formats...)
- Storage and connectivity. You can easily add a lot of nvme working at their full speed and several 100Gb (or 200Gb) erthernet boards.
- Multi GPU applications

[maxamps]

I'd buy this in a heartbeat if all the enterprise software utilize all the cpu cores of this one

[enfys]

I like his videos before I even watch it, this guy is by far the best in this area of youtube. Love you bro

[nikolaykirchev]

Awesome review, however a bit strange testing this productivity product on rendering. It's not designed to do that and GPUs are far more efficient for it. I'm a power user myself and would kill for one of these. Rendering 3d scenes is a GPU activity, however generating geometry(in Houdini for example) is a CPU task, and also one that requires huge amounts of ram. I would love to see some files compression and decompression for testing raw CPU power.

[steelfalconx]

Honestly pretty tempted to create a massive workstation and run all my family's PCs virtualized from a server rack and fiber all over the house. It won't be the best for gaming but it'll be good enough and it'll do just anything. I can also host my servers and containers too all at the same time.

[mustafasadmansakib]

Love your new hair dude. Its inspiring

[Kennedy_]

the red light lines in your video was a nice touch

[lamardoss]

Never thought about optimizing media at the end of a project in DR. Gonna have to try that. 🤔