Let’s tackle the elephant in the room right out of the gate, on the 32 Core only two of the dies have direct memory access, it has a few implications and looks like this:
It’s best to go read some reviews to see how the CPUs preform.
My TLDR; The 2950x is the real deal, whereas the 2990WX is only sensible for certain workloads.
The 2990WX is currently performing horribly in games with all 32 cores active, of course this can be rectified by turning off two or three of the dies.
Yes not a gaming CPU, everyone and their dog knows this, worth a mention nonetheless.
Yup…
They had 2 goals - 40% better performance and as cheap to make as possible. They had about 50% better performance and the cheap manufacturing makes it way better for core scaling and cooling and everything.
It’s made out of necessity, yet it is amazingly good design.
It is why we have better desktop CPUs than Intel had on servers till yesterday…
Yes they did a good job with Zen, it’s getting hard to recommend X299 and my question to buyers go: do you need AVX512 or best compression? No? Then go threadripper.
Yeah, that’s a high price to justify. Personally, I won’t miss a review of that chip. If you want to touch the reviews and whatnot, I’d recommend a 2950x. Seems like what the vast majority of people will be purchasing.
