AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX Linux Performance Benchmarks

For developers doing frequent code compiling, the Threadripper PRO 7995WX can provide some advantages over the Threadripper 7980X depending upon the size of the codebase and in particular the number of source files.

With a Linux 6.1 LTS default kernel build the Threadripper PRO 7995WX came slightly behind the Threadripper 7980X. The higher clock frequencies with the 7980X were more beneficial here where as most code compilation for threading / number of jobs is limited by the amount of separate source files being compiled. Until compilers do more for parallelizing the compilation within individual source files, the higher core counts won't be as beneficial as the right mix of high core counts with an aggressive clock speed.

In cases like compiling the LLVM compiler stack with the efficient Ninja build tool, there was a few second advantage with the PRO 7995WX compared to the 7980X.

It largely comes down to the codebase(s) you will be building most often whether a 96-core CPU makes the most sense or a 64-core count (or lower) but with higher clock frequency.

The CPU power consumption was similar during code compilation among all these top-end SKUs.