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) ...

Starting off with a single-threaded synthetic benchmark, we see gains of about 6% generationally from the 1950X to the 2950X. Ultimately, the new Threadripper CPUs fall about 2% behind the Ryzen 7 ...

AMD’s 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX is arguably the most powerful “consumer” CPU ever sold (for all the gory details, read our review). But most-powerful doesn’t always mean it’s a must-have in ...

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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.

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 ...

Why it matters: With Zen 2 powering AMD's Ryzen 3000 chips and the recently revealed 2nd-gen Epyc CPUs, it appears the next product to use the architecture will be the 3rd-generation of Threadripper ...

The core-and-thread differences amongst the Threadripper 2 range are totally sensible given how AMD deals with the multiple dies present in these ultra-performance processors. Let's explain.

Single-threaded rendering in Cinebench R15 tracks with what we'd expect, with the 2950X and 2990WX showing similar performance to the 2700X. Cinebench R15's multi-threaded rendering test is the first ...