Battle of the Monster CPUs: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2 vs. Intel Skylake-X 

Tomshardware recently released a benchmark and comparison on the two high-end cpu lines from amd an intel. AMD’s 2000-series Threadripper processors, commonly known as Threadripper 2, came to market to compete against Intel’s Skylake-X series.

High end cpus is the land of stupid-high prices, with the $1,999 Core i9-7980XE capping the top of Intel’s line and the $1,799 Ryzen Threadripper 2 2990WX serving as AMD’s halo product. the interesting test can help you decide which processor platform to get, we’ve put Ryzen Threadripper 2 and Skylake-X through a seven-round face-off. ( Tomshardware)

AMD holds the core-count advantage with its range-topping 32C/64T Threadripper 2990WX. Core counts vary based on pricing. Intel’s lineup spans from six cores to eighteen, while AMD’s spans from eight cores to 32. All Threadripper 2 and Skylake-X models come equipped with multithreading, meaning software can assign two threads to each core. Intel calls this Hyper-Threading, and AMD uses the more generic Simultaneous multithreading, or SMT. AMD also supports ECC memory, which is a critical component for professionals and semi-professionals who value every bit of their data.

When it comes to gaming, Skylake-X beats Threadripper 2 on most titles, simply because more games are lightly-threaded and benefit from Intel’s higher single-core clock speeds. AMD’s processors are generally more competitive in game titles that can leverage their additional cores

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But in productivity tests capabilities of Threadripper 2 (2000 series), which tends to perform better in heavily-threaded applications, and Skylake-X processors, which tend to perform best in lightly-threaded apps.

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In terms of value, AMD’s prices dip as low as $33 per core for the first-gen Threadripper models. For Threadripper 2 , AMD drops as low as $56 a core. In comparison, Intel’s lowest price-per-core weighs in at $65 for its six-core model, but the beefier 12-core models start at $100 per core. AMD’s new range-topping Threadripper 2990WX does carry a steep $1,799 price tag for 32-cores and 64-threads, but if heavily threaded applications are your thing, the chips offer a much better value than Intel’s $1,999 asking price for the 18-core 36-thread Core i9-7980XE.

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Source: Tomshardware

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