Noctua Air Cooling With The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Noctua Air Cooling With The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX

With this week's launch of the Ryzen Threadripper 2920X and 2970WX, the new 24-core / 48-thread 2970WX has a 250 Watt TDP like the 2990WX. Fortunately, with Noctua's high-end TR4/SP3 heatsinks, it's still possible to get by with air cooling...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Air-Cooling-Threadripper-2970WX

[anarki2]

So there's throttling involved even at 70C? GG AMD.

[numacross]

So there's throttling involved even at 70C? GG AMD.

Is it throttling or is it just not using maximum turbo states? From the reviews around I've seen all-core turbo of ~3.5GHz while the base clock is 3.0GHz. The thermal/turbo management on Zen-based processors is very impressive. It can eliminate the need to manually overclock a 2700X for example. The biggest Threadrippers are basically 4 CPUs stitched together with 250W TDP so keeping this running stably while dynamically maximising performance is not easy.

Very big Intel CPUs also have lower maximum temperatures.