Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs i9 7960X

Ryzen going to have the same 16 cores and 32 threads, base clock of 3.4Ghz and boost of 4Ghz at price of 1000$ compared to i9 7960X that going to be sold for 1700$.

Threadripper is going to be released next month along it's weaker brother the 1920X for 800$ that should fight Intel's i9 7920X for 50% of it's price, having 12 cores and 24 threads.

Little benchmark:

That's a 800$ Ryzen CPU that beats or at least (if you do not want to rely on 1 bench) matches it for 200$ less the cost of i9 7900X.

Not AMD fanboy or anything but glad to see some fight here between those companies that of course we'll be enjoining lower prices and/or better hardware.

Cmon AMD bring those intel prices DOWN!!!!

competition finally, intel prices are definitely too high its ridiculous

Intel prices are simply insane.

I hope everyone goes AMD.

That damn thing is almost the size of a slice of bread!

Breadripper

@PredatorRules: Competition is good...

That's nice & all but I'm still waiting for games to fully utiliz 6C/12T to see if it's worth upgrading my current CPU i5 6600K. Unless you're doing things other than gaming, more cores don't matter nearly as much as clock speed. Which is why 5+year old CPU's are still able to max out new games when paired with a powerful GPU.

IPC and clockspeed. Intel has progressed some since Sandy Bridge was released. Though you won't notice much if you are always GPU bound.

From my GTX 1070, I never notice any bottleneck from my i5 6600K at all, in fact, it pares my 1070 really great but until we see developers start using more cores and yeah, I tend to be more bounded through my GPU.

BF1 would be a game where you could be CPU bound. Witcher 3 I think as well. But the GTX 1070 isn't fast enough I think. Well there is some difference I expect, but it is bigger the faster the GPU.

What is it with Ryzen and Cinebench? Cinebench really do love it.