Good work. It’s nice to confirm that for the same speed/timing, dual rank really is the way to go in threadripper (if you can afford it) given the seeming hard 2933mhz wall when using 8 sticks. What’s a bit surprising is how much 4 single ranked but higher clocked sticks lag behind in most cases.
For those that aren’t aware, single rank sticks can sometimes edge out dual rank sticks because you can overclock them harder. With threadripper that’s not really going to happen.
Still don’t regret my single rank sticks given the going prices and what was available when I got them, especially since I’d still have hard time beating that.
Very interesting results. Some of results are completely opposite. Like 2x 3200 sticks vs 8 x 2666. In Kernel comp, 3200 is 2x faster , but then in rendering or compression is the complete opposite,2x slower. Just madness
The posted benchmark results indicate that the 8x16GB Crucial test was run at 1280x720 resolution. If so then the two game benchmarks could do with a refresh.
That being said, the Crucial ram appears to be performing exceptionally well at stock 2666MHz.
While it’s true that overclocking 8 sticks on Threadripper isn’t really going to happen (though I can push it to 3000mhz), setting tighter ram timings can go a long way toward matching the dual rank performance.
Yes the game res is wrong, I noticed that later too, but I did pts benchmark (the other benchmark name for comparison) so not sure how to coax it into running right. Maybe a different GPU driver than expected or need an older kernel.
Idk what the 7980xe settings were either but that’s a super fascinating result. All the non game results are super interesting
I added one more (slightly crazy) result to the list.
In tests were the crucial ram does well, it’s untouchable, even against the craziest of clocks ( 2-14-14-14-14-34 @ 3133 MHz ).
I got a basic phoronix test running real quick on Arch 4.19.2 kernel with my 2950X w/ 128GB ECC and I’m getting some #1 results with the command you posted earlier in the thread
I tried running a test paralleling your last set, but i’ve run into issues with some tests failing. Going to have to do some digging in the logs to figure out what needs to be fixed.
I’ve encountered and worked around a few phoronix test suite issues so yell out if you get stuck (list the failing tests), it may be ground I’ve already covered.
I have 8 Samsung 16GB DDR4-2400 ECC Server Memory M391A2K43BB1-CRC00, unregistered on my X399-DESIGNARE
Your mileage may very but I’ve had it at 2933GHz CL16 now for almost a year.
I’ve not run a huge amount of benchmarks but the game benches I’ve run on my Windows VM saw a performance improvement each time I uped the frequency.
Your Mileage may vary, I did not expect to get the sort of frequency’s I got.
I shall try and learn how to run the bench mark this week end and post results.
Yep It is, WGet the deb from the site, dpkg -i, find and resolve dependency install tests.
It looked a little intimidating from the manual at first but I’ve managed to install some tests and run the first one all from the console. https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1811235-RA-RUN1STREA45
They seem OK for 2933?
I’ve 15 VMs running so… I could find some more performance…
Certainly not for any anonymous test results, that would be a bad idea.
I’m not sure what might be offered with an account though, that info seems to be a bit sparse.
You can clone any of the tests that are online, rename, sort, and remove any entries, and re upload it, though it will get a new name and link.
