Threadripper 7980X $5000 CPU Review... HOLY COW!

When I worked at Nickelodeon, we had a render farm in the building.. it was an entire room with floor to ceiling rack mounted render blades.. dual xeons in each. This single CPU is more powerful than that entire room.

I used to work on a code base that was roughly 100000 files and several million lines of code. On the 20 core Xeon workstation I used at the time, it took more than 30 minutes to compile the product.. Sure, sometimes you just touched a small part of the code and it just took a few minutes, but often you touched some core header file and almost everything needed to be rebuilt - a CPU like this would have saved me tons of trips to the coffee machine while waiting for a build to complete (multiple times daily). It would have paid for itself in just a few weeks.

A graph on a monitor behind Jay is so much better than a full screen with voice only in my opinion. I was surprised how much difference it makes to me. Anyways, good job with the video as always. :)

I love the new way of going through the charts. Sitting at a desk and explaining is much better than just charts and music. Love the channel Jays2Cents team.

I do 3D, owned 3970x, would happily take in the new 7980x, or even 7995x. The speedup that you get is amazing. Outside of that, even running multiple render nodes out of this single CPU would quickly pay off the electricity cost. You can split it into 4x16 core render node, if optimized, will for sure draw less power than 4x 7950x

Real informative, always like how you give a comprehensive and understandable breakdown of the hardware information, as well as the testing methodology and terminology used. Also: Props to whoever named the E: drive 'BALLZ'. I approve of the occasional silliness in a work environment, it helps make things feel way less tense.

It would be cool to see you compile often-used software, like Chromium and the Linux kernel, both before and after an overclock. That would be a cool video, Jay. Hope you see this.

I appreciate the container ship analogy. I like Jay’s content but don’t always understand everything because I haven’t been interested in computers until recently. So the container ship analogy was very helpful for understanding the purpose of this type of CPU

I definitely need this at work. Our security team hasnt found a security suite it doesn't like and thinks they all need to be installed on all systems. This may let me actually use my PC while letting those background tasks run lol

Incredible really.. always a joy to see things you wouldn't otherwise get to see, so thank you!

I love the giant screen setup behind Jay when they do these type of videos. Very sports caster vibes

I enjoy this layout. Also Zen 4 Threadripper is insanely efficient. AMD has done an amazing job.

This would be a killer cpu for a DCS World server. A large mission with a lot of units would keep a high fps possibly with this.

I write HIGHLY multithreaded and long running software at home for fun (nothing practical). This kind of CPU is exactly the kind of thing I would use do that. Right now I'm using a dual socket AMD EPYC 75F3 system. I'm using a 5950X as my desktop processor for development, but I'd end up using Threadripper as a server for this kind of compute.

Like the graphs on the screen in the back and you explaining them in the front

Would love to see a full length minimal cut video of building a custom water loop for this setup. Video would probably be very long but it would be awesome

You should do a cpu cinabench video of every cpu you have tested. It would be cool to see how cpu's have evolved and at what speed that change happened. I just want to see all the graphs.

Just remember the FX series was the first step on this power effficient multi core journey, sharing cache on this cores was their first hard lesson, their refusal to use multithreading years sooner their biggest.

Love the name of the Drive you’re pulling graphs from. On another note, I like the format of you and the graph more versus the graph with voice-over.

Finally been waiting to see coverage with these New CPUs