To deliver a full-featured article for launch, my look at AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX and 2950X combined Windows and Linux performance in the same article. As it turns out, that was a mistake, ...

AMD's Threadripper 2990WX is a beastly slice of silicon, there's no doubt about it. The chip is armed with 32 cores and 64 threads clocked at 3.0GHz to 4.2GHz, supplemented with 64MB of L3 cache and ...

AMD’s 32-core Threadripper 2990WX is the fastest consumer CPU ever sold. And let’s be clear: We’re in full agreement with anyone who said that. But we would also be the first ones to say it has its ...

Through the looking glass: Software at the operating system level could be key to managing many-core CPUs. AMD is launching two more Ryzen Threadripper CPUs, but Dynamic Local Mode is a ...

AMD’s 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX is an impressive chip for many reasons, but as we quickly discovered at its launch, not all workloads are going to utilize it (or the 24-core 2970WX) ...

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Doubling the cores and threads leads to predictably gargantuan performance that puts AMD in a different HEDT league to Intel. First-generation Threadripper, built on the solid foundation of the Zen ...

The performance of AMD's 32-core Threadripper 2990WX in games was lackluster when I reviewed it a couple of months ago and there didn't seem to be much of a reason other than two of its dies can't ...

What just happened? After the 16-core Threadripper 2950X launched with consistently great performance, AMD fans couldn't have been more excited for the 32-core 2990WX... only to be disappointed when ...

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When we reviewed AMD’s CPU Colossus, the 32-core Threadripper 2990WX, it had one weakness: gaming. But it looks like the fault lay with Nvidia, not AMD, as a driver update appears to fix the problem.