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AMD YD299XAZAFWOF Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX Processor

4.0 out of 5 stars 90 ratings

Brand AMD
CPU Manufacturer AMD
CPU Model Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX
CPU Speed 4.2 GHz
CPU Socket Socket TR4

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  • World's First 32-core, 64-thread Desktop Processor
  • 4.2 GHz Max Boost
  • 80MB of Cache Memory
  • 64 PCIe Gen3 Lanes
  • Quad-Channel DDR4

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    AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX Processors.


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    Footnotes:

    1. AMD product warranty does not cover damages caused by overclocking, even when overclocking is enabled via AMD hardware

    2. Prior to the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, the desktop processor with the most cores was the Intel Core i9-7980XE, with 18 cores. With the release of the 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, the most cores you can get on a desktop processor is now 32 cores. RP2-2

    3. VR capability differs depending on processor. Check with your VR headset manufacturer on their compatibility requirements

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    Processor ‎4.2 GHz ryzen_threadripper_2990wx
    Wireless Type ‎Bluetooth
    Brand ‎AMD
    Item model number ‎116580
    Hardware Platform ‎PC; Unix; Linux
    Item Weight ‎4.8 ounces
    Product Dimensions ‎3.1 x 2.2 x 0.3 inches
    Item Dimensions LxWxH ‎3.1 x 2.2 x 0.3 inches
    Color ‎Clear
    Processor Brand ‎AMD
    Number of Processors ‎32
    Computer Memory Type ‎DDR4 SDRAM
    Manufacturer ‎AMD
    ASIN ‎B07G25SD1P
    Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‎No
    Date First Available ‎August 6, 2018

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    Customers praise the CPU's performance and speed, with one noting it manages solid 60fps at 4K, and another highlighting its 32 cores and 64 threads for highly parallel applications. They appreciate its functionality, ease of installation, and value, with one mentioning it offers Intel server-level performance for half the price. The CPU receives positive feedback for its rendering capabilities, with one customer noting it's the best single socket for 3D rendering. Customers disagree on the CPU's temperature performance.

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    17 customers mention "Speed"13 positive4 negative

    Customers praise the processor's performance and speed, with one customer noting it manages solid 60fps at 4k resolution.

    "...Or as a beefy server. It's not designed for severe overclocking... its not really a consumer CPU and should be thought of more as a workhorse...." Read more

    "...Awesome CPU in any case." Read more

    "...It is much faster than our original 8-thread CPU, of course...." Read more

    "This thing is a monster, however if you are looking for a good gaming CPU you should look elsewhere and save yourself the cash...." Read more

    8 customers mention "Functionality"8 positive0 negative

    Customers report that the processor works as expected, with one customer specifically noting its compatibility with large air-coolers and another mentioning its ability to run ECC.

    "...In terms of memory, I've had no trouble running ECC with this baby though it should be noted that you might not be able to push 3000Mhz with all..." Read more

    "...a NASA computer now, but they are kind of right in that I can do a lot of various tasks and it doesn't put any strain on my CPU...." Read more

    "Watching Power boost overdrive work is pretty incredible if you have a decent water cooling solution...." Read more

    "Works like I knew it would. The speed and raw power blew me away!" Read more

    7 customers mention "Value for money"5 positive2 negative

    Customers find the processor offers good value for money, with one customer noting it provides Intel server-level performance for half the price.

    "...its battling parts that range from $500 to $10000, its one of the best values there is for workloads its best at...." Read more

    "Great processor! Offers intel server level performance for half the price. Good for gaming but not meant for it...." Read more

    "...It's a power hog and it's very expensive. Its single-core performance does not justify the price, and for gaming it will work worse than a simpler,..." Read more

    "Worked as expected no problems at yet Great choice" Read more

    4 customers mention "64-bit architecture"4 positive0 negative

    Customers appreciate the processor's 64-bit architecture, with one customer highlighting its 32 cores and 64 threads, while another notes its 8 RAM slots.

    "Generally speaking this baby packs 32 cores and 64 threads and it's awesome for video production, rendering, and compile farms...." Read more

    "It is amazing to have a CPU with 64 threads for highly parallel applications. It is much faster than our original 8-thread CPU, of course...." Read more

    "...On the other hand, 64 hyperthreads is just amazing sometimes...." Read more

    "...8 slots for ram in most motherboard allowing all 4 lanes to be filled and later double memory by filling the next 4. *..." Read more

    4 customers mention "Rendering capability"4 positive0 negative

    Customers appreciate the processor's rendering capabilities, with one customer noting it is the best single CPU for this purpose, while another mentions it excels in 3D rendering.

    "Currently, this CPU is hands down objectively the best at 3D rendering in a single socket (by the metric of time taken to render 3D scenes)...." Read more

    "...packs 32 cores and 64 threads and it's awesome for video production, rendering, and compile farms. Or as a beefy server...." Read more

    "...in shipping, someone didn’t do there job securing it, the little metal dots look ok but I don’t feel entirely safe using this, I’m going to see if I..." Read more

    "...This processor is for enthusiasts, 3d animators, code compiling or any other processor intensive process. I do not regret this purchase." Read more

    3 customers mention "Ease of installation"3 positive0 negative

    Customers find the processor easy to install, with one mentioning it's very straightforward.

    "Huge CPU, had no issues installing it. Make sure you get more than enough thermal paste for this thing because it is really big...." Read more

    "...complaints I've seen, I found this very straightforward and satisfying to install. One note is that it comes with its own torque wrench (!)..." Read more

    "...This processor is for enthusiasts, 3d animators, code compiling or any other processor intensive process. I do not regret this purchase." Read more

    3 customers mention "Cpu temperature"0 positive3 negative

    Customers report issues with the CPU temperature, with one noting that it gets hot quickly and another mentioning that it makes any temperature display AIOs pointless.

    "...This also makes any temp display AIOs pointless since their temps will be wrong...." Read more

    "...1. The max temp on this processor is low, and keeping it below 68c is somewhat of a challenge...." Read more

    "...This processor gets hot FAST, but the power you have at your disposal is absolutely incredible for a commercial processor...." Read more

    Perfect Powerful 64-thread CPU with Cost Effective
    5 out of 5 stars
    Perfect Powerful 64-thread CPU with Cost Effective
    It is amazing to have a CPU with 64 threads for highly parallel applications. It is much faster than our original 8-thread CPU, of course. At the peak workload, we can see the Linux top command shows system workload as 76 (64 for 64 CPUs, and others for HDD etc). The per-thread cost of this CPU is $27, well for Xeon Platinum 8180 (56 thread) the per-thread cost is $196, which is amazingly 7.25 times higher. (Based on price as of Mar 2019)
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    • Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2018
      Currently, this CPU is hands down objectively the best at 3D rendering in a single socket (by the metric of time taken to render 3D scenes).
      In blender cycles, I've had this CPU outpace my dual 1080ti at rendering, 950 vs 693 seconds in a scene I've been using to benchmark.

      I also do a lot of data processing.

      Encoding (ffmpeg): depending on the codec used, it can be pretty good, or pretty meh, in the worst cases getting slightly outpaced by the 18 core i9 7980XE in h265. h264 I found was not quite as favorable for the intel cpus though, but something to note is that neither of those codecs actually fully loaded the cpu, 2 of the dies were typically idle, thus the cpu was being treated like a 16-core, and one of the dies was barely loaded, resulting in severe under utilization for the AMD cpu that pushed its boost clocks down, while the intel cpu was able to make use of much higher boosts, since at least the number of threads was much closer to its actual core count. Parallel encoding however swings things back in the favor of the 2990WX though, where it can now fully utilize all the cores. Occasionally some under utilization would happen due to memory bandwidth constraints in some portions of my reference task.

      NLP Text Preprocessing (Proprietary w/ Python, Numpy): This particular bit of code is unfortunately a custom piece written for my job, so not necessarily directly translatable to what other people may be doing, but running 64 instances of the program in parallel didnt scale how I expected... because my nvme drives couldn't keep up with the IO demands, resulting in CPU under utilization, so not the CPU's fault. I'll need to set up a larger scratch disk array to properly test this.

      AVX2 deep learning: ok, the 1080tis win out for this workload, but against other cpus the 2990WX can still hold its own... until you bring in the question of AVX512, which is an interesting topic. Sure, AVX512 might be a bit easier to code for than CUDA... in theory, since its still all on the CPU. However AVX512 is not at all easy to code for, or even getting the stuff to compile right. Its also less mature and less supported than CUDA, making.. coding for CUDA arguably actually easier overall. For all the hammering away at some of the problems I was facing, I could only get around half the benchmarks to run on AVX512 intel cpus without crashing. Some of them still produced unexpected outputs. Anyways, verdict is that, while GPUs and dedicated hardware still easily outpace CPUs here, the 2990WX isnt half bad at it either if you cant otherwise use GPUs.

      Games: it manages a solid 60fps at 4k using dual 1080tis. Cant ask for much more than that. I'm an artist and programmer who games on the side, I like high resolutions, and I dont really play anything that greatly benefits from high fps - it just makes it nicer to watch but provides no tangible benefits for what I play.

      If you have workloads that benefit from this CPU, you or at least your business probably makes enough money to get this CPU, and in the arena that this CPU fights in, where its battling parts that range from $500 to $10000, its one of the best values there is for workloads its best at.
      If you also want to game on it, well, its perfectly fine if you just want 60hz or even 90hz (vr), with dynamic local mode bringing it closer to where the 2950X and 2700X sit. Its never going to be a top tier champ of the high refresh rate gaming arena, but thats not what its value proposition is for anyways, theres cpus better at that for much cheaper (2700X, 8700K, and just forget the 9900K even exists since the 8700K is just a few percent slower while not running into the same power/thermal issues as the 9900K - which by the way, actually can use more power (I've seen people reporting up to 265W on the package) than even the 2990WX (peak power draw I've observed is 248W) does at stock settings on a good board under all-core loads, since MCE is a stock setting enabled by default on a lot of those boards that can actually supply it enough power without the VRMs throttling or overheating).
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    • Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2018
      Generally speaking this baby packs 32 cores and 64 threads and it's awesome for video production, rendering, and compile farms. Or as a beefy server. It's not designed for severe overclocking... its not really a consumer CPU and should be thought of more as a workhorse. In that situation you generally want power efficiency, and the 2990WX delivers efficiency in spades if you run the memory <= 2666 and limit the cpu to 250W or so using XFR2 + PPT to set a socket limit (check power consumption at the wall and dial-in what you want). It works great with a large air-cooler in this configuration, which is what I need.

      This is not really a 'server' CPU. It's designed to accomodate a beefy air cooler, not run in a 2U case (even with forced air). So don't expect to do that.

      In terms of memory, I've had no trouble running ECC with this baby though it should be noted that you might not be able to push 3000Mhz with all eight slots populated. Not that you would want to anyway, with 32 cores a high memory fabric frequency takes a lot of power budget away from the CPU cores. I don't recommend going above 2666. Yes, 3000+ will perform better, as will OC'ing the thing to the heavens... but you wind up burning 400W or more to get perhaps a 15% improvement over 250W and it isn't worth doing if the intention is to use the system as a workhorse.

      Gamers who really want a ton of cores would be better served with the 2950X and not the 2990WX. The memory configuration in the 2950X is more symmetrical and has a UMA (uniform memory access) mode. The 2990WX is NUMA-only due to the assymetric nature of the memory connections to the CPU dies.

      Basically, UMA modes in large CPUs like this one, or in e.g. dual-socket Xeon systems, exchange a low and high address bit, switching memory banks typically every 256 bytes of addressable memory, in order to spread the memory load evenly between banks. NUMA mode keeps the banks separate but the OS must understand this to produce an efficient use of memory in terms of allocating memory for CPU cores. The 2990WX does NOT have a UMA mode. The 2950X does.

      -Matt
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    • Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2021
      I expected an AMD processor, but unfortunately a kid's paint arrived after waiting several weeks. The 2000$ worthy product has suddenly become a kid's paint tool costing several dollars.
      When it arrived, I was so disappointed with this product, because I had waited for the CPU to assemble a complete PC in the end.
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      Wrong item arrived (Kid's paint, not AMD Ryzen CPU)

      Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2021
      I expected an AMD processor, but unfortunately a kid's paint arrived after waiting several weeks. The 2000$ worthy product has suddenly become a kid's paint tool costing several dollars.
      When it arrived, I was so disappointed with this product, because I had waited for the CPU to assemble a complete PC in the end.
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    • Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2018
      First off, this CPU is flat out awesome for what it's bringing to the table; 64x 3.0ghz = 192ghz of CPU potential at just the base clock. That's insane!

      But, I discovered a couple items:

      A) CPU max temp before it starts throttling is 68C. It has a max temp of 95, but it's set to start pulling back just below 68C. Given I built this system (temp) on a traditional HSF, that means I get only a bit of time before I hit that. Water option inbound, just wanted to sort how how/where I was going to place it.

      B) Even though the systemboard supports it, I found out that the CPU does not - due to the infinity fabric, RAM clock speeds are limited. My board can support up to 3600. Setting it that way is a no-post situation and bios resets itself. I've managed to get it running at 2933, which based on what I've read seems to align with the limitations of the infinity fabric. RAM being swapped for certified compatible. I did see in the HCL for it, that 3000 is supported, and, I've ran it that way and seem to have no issues with the RAM I initially purchased since it goes to 3466, but I'm running it at 2933 until the new RAM comes in since this will get RA'd.

      All said, everything I can throw at it, it just laughs and asks 'what else ya got?'.
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    • 燦星石のオパール
      5.0 out of 5 stars 冷却はしっかりやってください
      Reviewed in Japan on June 5, 2019
      マルチタスクは優秀だが、シングルはイマイチ
      熊印のグリス+簡易水冷でも熱落ちの可能性アリ
      2950w以下でも良いと思うの

      以下感想
      流石32/64ですね
      黒い砂漠とマイクラとDiscordとChromeでyoutube垂れ流しをしてHyperVで8コアUbuntuと8コアCentOSをしても全然重くならないです
      このまま7daysやARKを開いても"全体的に重くなること"は無さそうですね
      ただ、クロック数は低めなので1つのソフトの負荷が大きくなるとそのソフトだけどうしてもカクつきます
      なのでやっぱりゲーミングには向きませんが、AをやりながらBとCとDをやる、みたいに複数の作業をやるのであれば輝きます
      また、この時期になってくると気温が高くなるのもあり、簡易水冷240mmでも熱落ちしましたので冷却はしっかり考えるべきです

      HyperVの仮想マシンを9台同時稼働させる予定があるので実現出来たらまた続きを書きます
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    • F. Passaro
      5.0 out of 5 stars Delivers on its promise
      Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2019
      If you need one of these and are on the fence - just bite the bullet and get one.

      Yes it is pricey - VERY. But a reduction of 90% in render times - for me is worth every penny.
    • Amazonカスタマー
      5.0 out of 5 stars すばらしく速いです
      Reviewed in Japan on July 30, 2019
      3D-CG制作のために購入。前回レビューしたThreadripper 1950X の置き換えとして、第二世代となった2990WXに変更。
      マザボはそのまま、バイオスだけ入れ替えというだけで、そのまま普通に交換できてしまいます。ただし、マザボのバイオス変更したら、電源をMASTERから一度切って10秒待ってからオンにしなおすようにしましょう。これで動きます。
      ちなみに一応今回はメモリもよりクロックの速いのにしておきました。でもこれは最初は不要かも。メモリは何でも普通に動きます。

      レンダリング速度は体感的に「ほぼ倍速」という感じです。ものすごく速いので、コーヒータイムが無くなります。普通のテレビ番組用のCGでしたら、それこそ3分あれば300フレーム分のレンダリングが終わってしまうくらいのスピードです。ちなみにこういうレンダリングは、インテルCorei7の4コアあたりだと20分とか30分かかってたレンダリングです。時間を節約したいなら、このCPUはアリです。

      より複雑なレイトレースも現実的ですから、表現の幅が広がりますね。いわゆる3D-CG制作なら、間違いなくこのCPU
      が私の一番のおすすめです。
      逆にAfterEffectsなどを多用した2D-CGをやるならインテルCorei9でいいのではないでしょうか。

      このThreadripper2990WXは、3D-CGレンダリングでは最良の選択肢です。なぜならコストとの兼ね合いはプロの仕事ではとても重要だからです。多くのプロ用CGソフトでは分散レンダリングができますので、Xeonの高価なCPU搭載ワークステーションを1台導入するのなら、このAMD搭載機を複数台つないだほうが、コスパが高いのです。
    • Eskimo
      5.0 out of 5 stars le top
      Reviewed in France on May 6, 2019
      le top pour le calcul 3D.
      C'est simple, les performances sont x3 par rapport à mon vieux i6900K. Ce genre de saut de puissance n'arrive que rarement dans une décennie !
      Sa fréquence de 3GHz n'en fait pas un tueur pour des utilisations mono-processeurs, mais pour les applications multiprocesseurs, c'est le top.
      Il a besoin d'un gros dissipateur thermique pour bien tourner (donc adieu les boitiers compacts) mais on n'a rien sans rien.
      Un petit bémol au packaging un peu trop volumineux (trop de plastique !! )
    • cbilodeau
      5.0 out of 5 stars Attention le processeur pourrait être à l'envers dans son support orange!
      Reviewed in Canada on June 17, 2019
      Mon processeur fonctionne parfaitement. Attention avant de l'insérer dans votre ordinateur vous devez savoir que le mien était à l'envers dans son support. Ne le sachant pas j'essayais de l'installer ainsi. À force de le manipuler pour le faire rentrer dans le socket de ma carte MSI X399 MEG Creation je l'ai échappé légèrement sur les connecteurs du socket de la carte-mère et je ne savais pas qu'ils étaient si nombreux et petits. Quelques uns sont devenus tout croches. Ils sont tellement petit que je n'ai même pas tenté de les arranger moi-même et je me suis rendu immédiatement chez une bijoutière expérimentée qui me l'a arrangé. Par la suite j'ai tenté à nouveau d'installer mon processeur. Ne comprenant pas pourquoi il ne rentrait pas correctement j'ai regardé des photos sur Internet. En grossissant les images j'ai finalement réalisé que le processeur avait placé à l'envers dans son support orange. Ce fut très facile de le tourner. Il s'est alors parfaitement inséré dans la carte-mère et il roule parfaitement. J'overclock au niveau max automatique de la carte sans problème. J'ai 128 Go sur deux kits 64 Go HX432C16PB3AK4/64.