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by JustAPerson 2299 days ago
Perhaps the craziest part of these graphs is the 3970X, this generation's second best, versus the 2990WX, last generations very best Threadripper processor. Both have 32 cores/64 threads, but the 3970X has 2x the multithreaded performance, literally 100% faster under many workloads. Its base clock is 25% faster but there's still an enormous microarchitectural improvement. Part of this is moving away from the asymmetric NUMA topology of 2990WX. What a feat.