By Kevin Lee
AMD Ryzen Threadripper‘s long awaited release is still three days away, but today we’re spoiling you with a sneak peek of what this extreme processor can do.
TechRadar received an early review unit of the Alienware Area 51 Threadripper Edition, and we can confidently say it is the most powerful system we’ve ever tested. Not only does it feature a 16-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X processor, there’s also an Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti graphics card included as well.
With all of this overwhelming computing power, we saw the Area 51 shred its way through the toughest benchmark tests we could throw at it.
Cinebench’s rendering test typically takes a good half minute to finish, but Threadripper chewed through the task in mere seconds. This is largely due to the fact that the 1950X has four to eight times the number of cores over the average CPU, each of which it can use to render part of the image simultaneously.
The Alienware Area 51’s Cinebench score blows past our previous record holder, the Origin Millennium, which completed the same test with 2,205 points using Intel’s last-generation, deca-core Intel Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E chip.
More impressively, we witnessed 3DMark’s most punishing graphics benchmarks, which typically …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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