PassMark 10.0
PassMark 10.0 notes (Test taken on 2020-03-13)
Released lately, the new PassMark 10.0 changed the score a lot, compared to previous 9.0, hence no score comparison is possible.
Thanks to the introduction of the third generation Threadripper, now the top CPU score is around 71000! But, considering it’s a 64core CPU that cost US$4000, my score is not that bad, even if is only comparable to the 12core 3900X – that is Zen2, though.
PassMark 9.0
PassMark notes (CPU 3.98GHz, RAM 3133MHz, Radeon VII Adrenalin 19.7.2)
Decided to slow down the overclock to 3.975GHz after I bought the Be Quiet! Dark Pro TR4, as it’s more stable in everything; using the Radeon VII @stock, 3D score is 16152 – while overclocked to 1950MHz and memory @1150MHz score was 16773; both higher than Nvidia RTX 2080 (and as now 2019-08-26, just a bit higher than RTX 2080ti score, that is 16768)
PassMark notes (all default):
as you can see, this ThreadRipper 1950x score, with RAM speed set at its default of 2133MHz, was 25154, 15% faster than the average! Dunno, maybe I was extremely lucky winning the silicon lottery, or maybe the ones who posted are unlucky, or use slow memories or only two DIMMs instead of four, dunno… result is really very near to 2950x, though!
The Vega Frontier score was 11689, also faster than the average, albeit only 6.5% – not much, but still faster than the simple Vega 64, as it should be!
PassMark notes (CPU 3.40GHz, RAM 3200MHz, 2x Vega Frontier 17.Q4 drivers):
Overclocking only the RAM let the performance increase; now the 1950x score was 26681, 22% faster than average, and Vega Frontier score was 12535, 14% faster than average; RAM test increase was 30%, and SSD test increase was 9.5%; not bad at all!
PassMark notes (CPU 4.00GHz, RAM 3200MHz, 2x Vega Frontier 17.Q4 drivers):
here the difference is even greater, thanks to overclocked CPU and RAM, and GPU using performance settings (beware, the latter NOT overclocked); using two GPUs did not increase speed, as only one was actually used for the benchmark, according to their tach LEDs (also, repeated tests with just one, and results were the same).
The 1950x score was 27748, almost 27% faster than the average stock value – putting it in the same league of Intel i9-7980XE (that costs almost four times its price!), and at SEVENTH place in the most powerful single CPU chart… WOW!!!
Vega Frontier showed its muscles, and its score was 14083, more than 28% faster than the average value, without being overclocked, just using different settings – I guess RAM overclock helped a lot here; this put it almost on par with Nvidia GTX 1080ti, and at TENTH place in the most powerful GPU chart… again, WOW!!!
Of course, also RAM had benefits from its overclock, being test 28% faster than stock speed, as well as SSD test that had the same speed increase.
PassMark notes (CPU 4.00GHz, RAM 3200MHz, 2x Vega Frontier 19.Q1.2 drivers):
Curious to see if newest drivers (19.Q1.2 Vs 17.Q4, first non-beta drivers for Vega Frontier) could improve speed… and, again, WOW! It did! Also, GPU B is slightly faster, so I decided to publish its results – GPU A score was just something like 300 below, by the way. With a score of 15679 (almost 43% faster than average, and more than 8% faster than old driver), the AMD Vega Frontier (I repeat, this, at the contrary of CPU and RAM, was NOT OVERCLOCKED!) is now within striking distance of the Nvidia RTX 2080 average score!!! That is frankly awesome!
And, with a score of 27844 (still 27% faster than average), this AMD ThreadRipper 1950x overclocked to 4GHz, thanks also to the DDR4 RAM overclocked at 3200MHz with a CL14 latenchy, confirms the fact this is a wonderful CPU!
RAM score is more or less the same, while SSD score is higher – still dunno why, to be frank… I promised myself to do more tests only when I’ll swap that simple SATA with a much faster NVME m.2 SSD… stay tuned! 😀
PassMark notes (CPU 3.40GHz, RAM 3133MHz, 2x Vega Frontier Adrenalin 19.4 drivers):
RAM at 3200MHz proved a bit unstable, so I wanted to set down a bit the speed, to 3133MHz; meanwhile, I installed the Adrenalin 19.4 gaming drivers – instead of previous newest 19Q1.2 pro drivers), to see if GPU scores could improve… while CPU score was mostly the same when RAM was set to 3200MHz, GPU score increased A LOT, thanks to the new drivers; the Vega Frontier jumped from a good 12535 to a great 15092, 20% faster, and an amazing 37% faster than average score
PassMark notes (CPU 4.00GHz, RAM 3133MHz, 2x Vega Frontier Adrenalin 19.4 drivers) 1:
Here the CPU score is a bit lower than when RAM was set to 3200MHz (from 27844 to 27687), but, as it’s within 1%, while RAM speed decrease was 2%, at the end it’s higher, in comparison; but the astounding result is the GPU score; now this Vega Frontier, with a score of 15883, is even better than Nvidia RTX 2080, with its average score of 15745, and a whopping 44.6% faster than the model average score, putting it at the 4th place!
PassMark notes (CPU 4.00GHz, RAM 3133MHz, 2x Vega Frontier Adrenalin 19.4 drivers) 2:
here I just “tweaked” something in the BIOS – can’t remember, really! – and I had a new operating point at 550MHz (have not seen in action, yet); apart this, I installed the video drivers, this time a clean install – I forgot to uninstall previous drivers before; well, the 1950x with a score of 27711 is nice, but a little variation like this is understandable; what I still can’t believe is the incredible increase in the 3D score, where the Vega Frontier reached a record of 16780, almost 53% faster than average, and 1035 points more than Nvidia RTX 2080, 208 less than the Nvidia Titan X CEO Edition and only 279 less than Nvidia RTX 2080ti!
PassMark notes (CPU 4.00GHz, RAM 3133MHz, 2x Vega Frontier Adrenalin 19.4 drivers) 2:
here I just “tweaked” something in the BIOS – can’t remember, really! – and I had a new operating point at 550MHz (have not seen in action, yet); apart this, I installed the video drivers, this time a clean install – I forgot to uninstall previous drivers before; well, the 1950x with a score of 27711 is nice, but a little variation like this is understandable; what I still can’t believe is the incredible increase in the 3D score, where the Vega Frontier reached a record of 16780, almost 53% faster than average, and 1035 points more than Nvidia RTX 2080, 208 less than the Nvidia Titan X CEO Edition and only 279 less than Nvidia RTX 2080ti!
