AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X AIDA64 CPU Benchmarks
Benchmark pages of AIDA64 Extreme provide several methods to measure system performance. These benchmarks are synthetic, so their results show only the theoretical (maximum) performance of the system.
CPU and FPU benchmarks of AIDA64 Extreme are built on the multi-threaded AIDA64 Benchmark Engine that supports up to 1280 simultaneous processing threads. It also supports multi-processor, multi-core and SMT (Hyper-Threading) enabled systems. More information about these benchmarks can be found here.
Here we see most tests with a clear 50%-90% lead with the 3990X versus the 3970X. That is overall a great result. The CPU PhotoWorxx test shows a case, again, where the Threadripper 3990X is more in-line with other 28-32 core offerings. This pattern of having great results in some areas and acceptable results in others is one that we see repeating. If you remember our monster truck example from the introduction, this is good at crushing cars and jumping dirt ramps, but merely OK on grocery runs.
Next, we are going to look at our Linux benchmark results.
Good review & analysis. Thanks, John!
You guys are awesome, thanks!
I know it’s an ad, but the point made in the “Red Digital Cinema gets 64-Core Performance” video is what makes these CPUs so important:
Jarred Land: When I see this, how fast it is, it lets me get a liiiiiittle bit more aggressive with what we’re going to do next. With what we have on our roadmap, please, keep going, keep going, because we’re gonna need it.
Everything is connected. You can’t push the boundaries in one field if the technology in another is lacking.
Shouldn’t you test the pci express bandwidth with a gen 4 capable card?
Best use of Legos in all the 3990x reviews
Great review, John.
Just a thought/suggestion for a future article: It’d be great to see a round up of these workstation CPUs benchmarked with 16, 32, and 64 threads loaded. Particularly given how the higher end models can be quite a lot better binned silicon and how the CPU boosting technologies are implemented. It’d be really interesting to see the power draw and performance to see if the higher end models perform similarly at less power at moderate loads. I know previously it’s sometimes been better and cheaper, TCO wise, to buy the more expensive models for finish quicker then sleep efficiency advantages and also the better silicon – am curious if this might be the case for the 3990X.
According to Anandtech, you need Windows for Workstations to be able to use more than 64 threads effectively. I don’t see this being commented on in this article. Has that Windows version been used for the testing?
@Nikolay
you can use more than 64t but consumer versions partition it into processor groups thinking they are on separate sockets. However someone had mentioned that his Windows Pro machine only sees one socket in the task manager so I don’t know. Maybe it’s due to firmware or uefi settings? Or a much more recent update/patch or chipset driver package from AMD?
Imagine what it will be like in 3-5 years after Intel and AMD go a few more rounds. Looking forward to purchasing a 256 core 512 threads . Maybe then I can install Oracle Fusion Applications in my home lab.
I have a 3990X machine here that I initially set up with Windows 10 Pro and then for fun decided to “upgrade” to Windows 10 Pro for Workstations. Can safely say there was 0% difference between the two OS, zero difference in how thread scheduling works, both have two NUMA nodes for the CPU.
The only change is that my bank account lost around $150 for the upgrade fee. Every other feature that Win 10 Workstation offers is basically useless far as my purposes.
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How does this New NUMA Node Layout effect something like ESXi and VMs within it? I would think consolidating to One node instead of 4 (2 with direct memory access and 2 without) would be a game changer. I am new to reading up on all this so I was hoping you could provide your opinion
Something is not right with the power draw figures.. How comes that the 24c 3960x and 32c 3970x Threadripper parts do absorb so much more electricity while on idle with respect to the 3990X?