Hey all,
For the past few months I've been lusting after AMD's Threadripper 3990X CPU, believing it would give my Terragen work a big performance boost over my current Threadripper 3960X. But looking at the V.4 benchmark results I'm a little taken aback. Reviewing AMD's specs on the Threadripper series procs, I would have thought it would have crushed everything other CPU in that series. But the benchmark results tell a different story, with the 3970X holding the top spot. Can someone explain this to me?
I have been digging through the forums looking for more info on this subject, and what I found I'm not sure I totally understand. (Ok, full disclosure, I'm not a sys. admin or hardware guy. I'm just a VFX artist working from home) Back in April, Matt posted that beginning with build 4.4.62 he increased the number of detectable cores to account for cpu's like the 3990X. He also mentioned build 4.4 wasn't NUMA aware. I'm not sure what that means, but has that been fixed for the current 4.5.56 build? Is it even a contributing issue? I did notice in the benchmarks, that the results I'm speaking of were running version 4.44.44, and 4.44.46. If those same cpu's were tested with the current version of TG, would there be a big difference in performance?
My current system
CPU: AMD Threadripper 3960X
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme
Memory 128GB DDR4
Video card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 TI
OS: Windows 10
Thanks,
Niel