The storm has reached another peak as AMD shows off its Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX processor breaking multiple records. The forthcoming CPU was already seen breaking records last month and now professional overclocking specialist SAMPSON has used it to raise the bar(s) even further. SAMPSON achieved the new records using a behemoth sized air-cooler to keep the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX in check. An IceGiant ProSiphone Elite, featuring 4x 120mm fans, was mounted to the 96-core processor which peaked at just under 1000W during benchmarking, only 75% CPU usage, and reached a maximum temperature of 103°C. While that temperature is nearly ten degrees higher that what the processor is rated for it was still able to perform under the skillful watch of SAMPSON.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX processor breaks the overclocked multi-thread performance world record – with just an air cooler. 🏆
— AMD Ryzen (@AMDRyzen) November 15, 2023
See the records:
• https://t.co/HKyHoeKeel
• https://t.co/i7CXAV53QW
• https://t.co/b5dvnKTURa pic.twitter.com/3S3PYHzoAN
Scores:
- Cinebench R23 – 161,295 Points
- Cinebench R20 – 61,538 Points
- Cinebench R15 – 23,697 Points
IceGiant ProSiphone Elite
As mentioned, the IceGiant ProSiphone Elite is anything but “just an air cooler”. It is designed for industrial applications such as a Threadripper and retails for ~$170 at Microcenter. However, the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX could easily fall into the price category of “if you have to ask. . .”, and there’s already one offer for it on Amazon at over seventeen thousand USD, so spending a little over a buck-fifty for one probably wouldn’t be an issue for someone wanting to keep the flagship CPU air cooled. Below is a short video showing installation on a Threadripper, just to give some perspective of the cooler’s size and usage scenario.
As AMD shows off these new Cinebench scores it should be noted that SAMPSON also revealed how an ASUS WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI motherboard was used in setting them. This motherboard can be seen here, and at a glance will get the heart pumping for many entusiasts with its clean, no-frills, design that is clearly meant to get to the job done. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX officially launches next week on November 21.
Discussion (5 replies)
Join Discussion →What is it going to take to get all cores to 100%
A Christmas miracle.
Setting it up in the antartic and then powered by a nuclear submarine.
Honestly... I don't think they intend you to have all cores at 100% on this sort of system. Some cores will remain under tasked to take care of background bs your system is doing.... with a caveat. If you're booting into a Unix/Linux/Sun sort of environment doing specific scientific tasks... I think in that case you COULD peg it out.
It will take a new distributed compute farm to really measure this though. And then they will go with the enterprise CPU's at 128 cores each instead of the 'HEDT' systems at just 96 cores each.
While I could see tinkering with these bigger desktop boxes for doing scientific work or AI development, fluid modeling, Disease modeling and such. I don't think we will see a real use case outside of a home VMware (pick your flavor) host... but even then for VMware hosts 96 cores and less than 1.5 TB of ram... seems like a bad mix.
This CPU with the limitations to keep it out of EPYC server chassis... has been niched a bit too much. At this core count just make it a EPYC CPU with unlocked capability. Outside of making Intel's HEDT line up look lackluster... what does this ACTUALLY do?
I'm sure you could peg it out, but it would start throttling significantly, and you'd find the overall benchmark score / compute available / whatever is just going to get limited by that, and there's some sweet spot with respect to core usage, clock speeds, power draw, and cooling performance.