I agree the Threadripper system will be faster but that’s hyperbolic. My 64 core Epyc Milan system is exactly twice the speed of my Dual CPU 2697a v4 system in heavy SSE and AVX2 code - that is to say, scales proportionately to core count. Milan is faster clock for clock, more efficient, etc. but Broadwell is hardly the Stone Age
If the system is mostly for GPU computing, which is what I gather from the original post, it may be worth saving the money to put towards another A6000 or 4090.
There’s also platform quality to consider; I’ve lost count of all the PCIe cards I’ve personally tried that are either unrecognized or non-functional in my AMD machine. This isn’t an uncommon issue.
The WRX80E board seems particularly problematic based on the number of issues I’ve seen on this forum:
