AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X And 2970WX Review: Lower Cost, Many Core Beasts
Ryzen Threadripper 2920X And 2970WX - JetStream, LAME, And Blender Performance
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All of the systems were tested using the latest version of Microsoft's Edge browser, with default browser settings, on a clean install of Windows 10 Professional x64.
![jetstream](https://hothardware.com/ContentImages/Article/2797/content/jetstream.png)
* Threadripper 2970WX (b) results = Dynamic Local Mode Enabled, (c) results = 1/2 core mode with UMA Memory
The latest Threadrippers finished about in the middle of the pack here. Not much separates the many-core processors in this benchmark and the majority of their resources go unused, hence the relatively strong performance by the higher-clocked, mainstream Intel Core and AMD Ryzen processors.
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In this test, we created our own 223MB WAV file and converted it to the MP3 format using the multi-thread capable LAME MT application in single and multi-thread modes. Processing times are recorded below, listed in seconds. Shorter times equate to better performance.
![lame](https://hothardware.com/ContentImages/Article/2797/content/lame.png)
* Threadripper 2970WX (b) results = Dynamic Local Mode Enabled, (c) results = 1/2 core mode with UMA Memory
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Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. It has a built-in benchmarking tool that will track the time it takes to complete rendering a particular model. We used a CPU-focused BMW model for these tests here...
![blender](https://hothardware.com/ContentImages/Article/2797/content/blender.png)
* Threadripper 2970WX (b) results = Dynamic Local Mode Enabled, (c) results = 1/2 core mode with UMA Memory
Blender will take advantage of as many cores / threads as you can throw at it, and as a result, the Threadripper 2970WX finishes near the top of the heap, behind only the 32-core Threadripper 2990WX. The 2920X puts up a strong score as well, that easily outpaces the much more expensive Core i9-7900X and recently introduced 9900K.