Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX: AMD announced the highly anticipated Ryzen Threadripper 7000 (Storm Peak) series and Threadripper Pro 7000 WX series with up to 96 cores today, dealing a double blow to Intel. AMD hopes that its new core-heavy Zen 4 chips will revitalize the HEDT industry and secure its place on the list of the best CPUs for workstations.
PC Magazine was given the opportunity to test the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX. The 96-core processor was compared against the previous Threadripper Pro flagship, the 64-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX, and Intel’s overclockable Sapphire Rapids Xeon W component, the 56-core Xeon w9-3495X. Intel has no immediate answer to AMD’s high-core count products. The top Sapphire Rapids Xeon chip, the Xeon Platinum 8490H, has 60 cores and 120 threads.
AMD’s 4th-generation EPYC Genoa server CPUs share the same DNA as the Ryzen Threadripper 7000. The processors use the most recent Zen 4 cores and have a chiplet design with Zen 4 CCDs (Core Complex Dies) and one massive IOD (I/O Die) in the center. As a result, AMD was able to increase the core count for the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 WX series to 96 cores. To avoid product cannibalization, the feature set differs between Storm Peak and Genoa. EPYC Genoa, for example, allows up to 12 DDR5 memory channels, whereas the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 WX series is limited to eight.
The Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX is the flagship model in AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 WX-series
The Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX, like the EPYC 9654 or EPYC 9654P, features 96 cores, 192 threads, and 384MB of L3 cache. AMD set the processor’s base clock speed at 2.5 GHz and the highest boost clock speed to 5.1 GHz. The Threadripper Pro 7995WX has a slightly faster base clock than the EPYC 9654P. The maximum boost clock, on the other hand, is approximately 38% faster. Despite the faster clock rates, the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX has a lower TDP of 350W, which is 10W less than the EPYC 9654P.
In Cinebench R23, the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX outperformed the Xeon w9-3495X by 81%. In the same benchmark, it outperformed the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX by 51%. In Blender, the Threadripper Pro 7995WX outperformed the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX and Xeon w9-3495X by 56% and 49%, respectively.
With 3DMark, PC Magazine saw a 16% generation-over-generation boost in single-threaded performance for the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX. When compared to the Xeon w9-3495X, it scored 93% higher.
The Threadripper Pro 7995WX’s true capability was hampered by PC Magazine’s selection of popular benchmarks and workloads. According to Crossmark, the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX outperformed the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX.
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