Quote Originally Posted by csatahajos View Post
Well, considering that this chip is rumored to be 2000$ I think the Threadripper 1998 for 1000$ is still a nice option for 90% of the performance. Since ASUS teased the Zenith Extreme mobo this time around that (the mobo side) won't be a limiting factor for the AMD platform either. Besides nobody knows how many CCX-es are under the hood in Threadripper, so we might see AMD doing a hattrick and coming up with a 24 core chip just to have the absolute performance crown in the desktop segment (BTW the Sklyale-X HCC die appears to be holding 20 cores) .
multithreaded difference

12.5% more cores,
15% higher performance per clock


We're looking at a ~30% difference there assuming identical clocks. I suspect HT is a bit weaker than AMD's SMT but being a monolithic chip with a ringbus architecture will likely give the i9 an edge that nullifies HT being slightly weaker so that's a wash.


For lightly threaded applications it's clocked around 10% higher and has around 15-25% more performance per clock so it's in the order of 30-40% faster for single threaded applications as well.

Yes, it's priced 2x as high for a reason.