Core i9 7980XE vs. Threadripper 1950X On Linux 4.15 With Ubuntu 18.04

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Core i9 7980XE vs. Threadripper 1950X On Linux 4.15 With Ubuntu 18.04

With more than one hundred different benchmarks, here are some fresh tests of the Core i9 7980XE and Ryzen Threadripper 1950X boxes when running on the Linux 4.15.2 stable kernel atop a daily snapshot of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Core-i9-Threadripper-Linux-4.15

[pete910]

16 core £930 doing rather well against a 18 core £1700 chip!

And to boot no major holes in the AMD chip either .

[dimko]

Interesting, thank you!

[Azrael5]

spectre vs meltdown

[nazar-pc]

cpuminer is not as well optimized for cryptonight as xmrig, would be nice to add xmrig to the list

[Michael]

cpuminer is not as well optimized for cryptonight as xmrig, would be nice to add xmrig to the list

Not familiar with it but when glancing at https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig, it doesn't seem to have a benchmark mode.

[dungeon]

spectre vs meltdown

Mine semaphore shows yellow and red, but not green yet

Skylake X, Basin Falls Intel® Core™ i9 79xxX, 78xxX 50654 B7 Beta 0x200002E 0x200003A, 0x200003C ---

https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-conten...e-guidance.pdf

[Luke_Wolf]

Michael There's something wonky about your table on firefox, there's a huge amount of unnecessary whitespace in your first column shifting the table over and forcing it to be scrolls

[Michael]

Michael There's something wonky about your table on firefox, there's a huge amount of unnecessary whitespace in your first column shifting the table over and forcing it to be scrolls

It's due to SVG and not able being able to accurately determine the width that the text will occupy at time of rendering, so always need to over estimate the width of text due to varying font differences between browsers, etc.

[sabriah]

Yeah, that was a nice test!