AMD Shows Off Air-Cooled Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96 Core CPU Breaking World Records

[Peter_Brosdahl]

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.

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[Elf_Boy]

What is it going to take to get all cores to 100%

 

[Uvilla]

A Christmas miracle.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Setting it up in the antartic and then powered by a nuclear submarine.

 

[Grimlakin]

What is it going to take to get all cores to 100%

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?

 

[Brian_B]

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.