The $200 1920X is still outperforming the $200 3600 for Blender, but there’s a lot more to get through. The R9 3900X stock CPU completes the render in 3.4 minutes, allowing a reduction of 17% versus the 1920X, but costing significantly more at present. Disabling SMT hurt performance, but unfortunately that didn’t mean a good score for the 2697 v2, which only managed 79 FPS. Because of its age, the Xeon uses DDR3 2400MHz memory downclocked to 1866MHz rather than the DDR4 3200MHz memory used with the rest of our CPUs.The 4K60 render takes longer and slightly modifies the stack, but not much. The other 12-core here, the 2697 v2, ends up at about 68K MIPS, or roughly tied with an R7 1700 and a bit behind the AMD R5 3600 -- also $200 presently. Part of the price of the 2697 is due to the fact that it’s dual-socket capable, so there are much better deals to be had on lower tier single-socket Xeons. We mention the 2697 v2 because it’s available in abundance when buying used, and is still selling for about $200, or about the same price as a 1920X. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X was released in 2017 and supports sTR4 socket. The i5-8400 was also slightly faster than the stock 1920X at 37.5 seconds, while the old E5-2697 v2 is far and away the worst performer at 47.2 seconds average. It’s up to game developers to code software that (at the bare minimum) doesn’t perform worse with 8+ threads, and they’re getting there slowly. Error margins are also defined in our chart bars to help illustrate the limitations of statistical relevance when analyzing result differences. The i5-8400 has less of an advantage over the game-mode 1920X than it did in the Battle benchmark at 147.6FPS average, but that’s still an 18.5% uplift. We’d probably favor the 3900X on average, unless a 2000-series upgrade is in the future. It’s a pain in the ass since it requires rebooting every time it’s enabled or disabled, but it’s a little easier from a user perspective than going into BIOS and manually toggling features.Photoshop has a known favor shown toward frequency, and in a big way. Today we’re going to figure out whether it’s worth even that. The 3900X leads with a 9-minute render time. The 1920X outperforms the 2697 v2 with a render time decrease of about 32%, or about 8 minutes for one frame.
CPU-Z Benchmark (x64 - 2017.1) Best CPU performance - 64-bit - July 2020. Blender is animation software, so each frame is only a fraction of a second of what would be played back. There are 120 frames to this animation, so if you take each of these render times and multiply it against 120, you’d get the full scope of how much render time matters. At 811 points, the 1920X is close to the R5 2600, the R7 1700 when overclocked, and worse than the $200 i5-8400. The 1950X is too close to the 3900X, but the 1920X at $200 may be worth considering for a cheap solution. At 1440p the story is the same, with averages for all four CPUs remaining almost unchanged.