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welcome back to harbor unbox today we're checking out how the thread Ripper 1900 X should perform for those of you unaware AMD did announce just before the thread Ripper launch that there would be a $550 US 8 core 16 thread model for the X 399 platform so in other words inexpensive Rison 7 cpu that supports quad channel memory and a boatload of PCI Express Lanes it's an interesting option and unfortunately we don't yet know how it will perform I am hoping that I will be able to purchase one next week AMD aren't sampling the 1900 X so I will have to buy one it's always a bit of a worry when companies don't sample products they probably haven't got much faith in the 1900s being a hit I do realize that I am quite late to the party with the simulated benchmarks as you can now order the real deal but I run these benchmarks a few weeks ago and I had played me at the mounts sooner but here we are unfortunately it got pretty busy around these parts with vaguer and a few other things so yeah the simulated benchmark got put on the back burner anyway I thought it can't hurt to show you guys the results I have and we can look at the real deal next week for those wondering the 1900 X is basically the same physical chip as the 1920 X in 1950 X obviously with less cause enabled however where is the bigger core count parts packed a whopping 32 megabyte level 3 cache the 1900 X only gets a 16 megabyte level 3 cache and that's something I can't simulate that's the same size cache as what you'll find on a Rison 7 or some of the Rison 5 CPUs so keep that in mind that that is something that we cannot simulate by using a 1950 X and disabling half of everything speaking of which when compared to the 1950 X you do get half as many caused threads and level 3 cache with the real 1900 X and again we're simulating half as many caused threads but not the level 3 cache so given that I have taken the 1950 X and disabled half the cores on the msi x3 9 I'm gaming Pro carbon AC this should give us a really good idea of how the 1900 X will perform due to the increase in base clock frequency the real 1900 X could be slightly faster than what's shown in this video though the same turbo clock speed of four gigahertz does apply so I expect the results to be pretty spot-on in any case it will give us a good idea of what to expect from the 1900 X I've got a few benchmarks lined up so let's check them out first up let's just get this one out of the way I'm only running a single gaming benchmark for the simulated test thread rippers not really about the gaming but it's certainly capable anyway once I have the real deal I'll run considerably more tests running the local and distributed memory modes please note these results are based on the default memory mode which uses the distributed profile and this enables uma or unified memory access be aware this isn't the best option for gaming performance and this is why the 1,900 X does Trail the 1800 Xu anyway we can see that the 1900s roughly matches the 1920 X and our 7 1700 moreover with a minimum of 151 FPS it's obviously still very capable at higher resolutions you'll really see no difference between the 1900 X and se the core I 979 hundreds as we will be running into GPU bound scenarios here here we find that even with 8 cores the 1900 X is still able to deliver big memory bandwidth thanks to the quad channel memory controller a throughput of 61 gigabytes per second is nothing to sneeze at but how much of an advantage does this give the 1900 X over the 1,800 X in the real world well let's go find out first that we have Excel 2016 and this test doesn't really take advantage of faster memory so it's not that surprising that we see the 1900 X is really only able to match the 1,800 X moving right along to ham break this is a test that can take advantage of that extra memory bandwidth and as a result we do see the 1900 X offering 15% better performance than the 1800 X that's a decent game right there it was also 28% slow in the 1950 X so again that's a pretty good result for the 1900 X this time we're testing with blender we see a nice 17% reduction in the render time for the 1900 X over the 1,800 X and this place it's just 5% behind the core i7 78 20x and that's not bad given it will cost around 8% less moving on to the povery testing we see that the 1900 X is able to complete the workload around 9% fast in the 1800 X so another strong gain can be seen here finally we have Premiere Pro CC and here we will see a small 3% reduction in the export time which isn't bad but it's certainly not the best result we've seen wrapping up the graphs we do have the power consumption numbers and in general the X 3 9 and I'm platform will consume more power than the X 3 70 so for this reason you can expect the 1970 X to guzzle more than the 1,800 X still keep in mind though that simulated power consumption figures are always a little bit sketchy but I believe we will be seeing similar numbers to these with the 1900 X using around 10% more for the entire system drawer which obviously isn't that bad given how substantial the platform upgrade is well there you have it these simulated benchmarks they're pretty much was expecting to find in the memory sensitive applications namely those rendering and encoding workloads we see at the 3 Ripper 1900 X does offer noteworthy gains over the horizon 7 1800 X in applications and games though that don't take advantage of the increased bandwidth you can pretty much expect a rise in 7 like performance the thread Ripper 1900 X is an interesting animal at 550 dollars it costs 20 percent more than the 1800 X but over 80 percent more than the 1700 taking just the chip cost into consideration the 1900 X in my opinion is worth the premium over the 1800 X every day of the week but having said that you really shouldn't be buying the 1800 X to begin with and over 80% more costly than the r7 1700 well that's a tough one at least when trying to justify a case for purchasing in the 1900 X also keep in mind the cheapest X 399 board's cost over $300 u.s. and the very awesome MSI X 399 gaming Pro carbon a/c is one of the most competitively priced external iron boards available right now and at 350 dollars u.s. it's still three times the price of an entry-level X 370 board so if you are just after an eight-course 16 thread CPU for proactivity workloads or content creation or whatnot then the horizon 7 1700 and a decent X 370 motherboard will only set you back around $450 at most meanwhile an X 399 motherboard with the 1900 X will cost twice that figure at around $900 u.s. so paying a hundred percent more for maybe a 15% increase in performance doesn't really sound that great the only other advantage here is of course those extra PCIe lanes and generally speaking x3 nan and I motherboards tend to be a little more feature-rich even so if I was in need of way more PCIe lanes and what rice and seven has to offer I'm not sure I could justify spending twice as much to get them I think for the extra investment I'd also want more CPU resources as well so more cores and threads and for me this is why the 1920 X and 1950 X just makes so much more sense still if a course has you more than covered it's really just those extra PCIe lanes that you need then in that rare scenario the 1900 X probably would make sense anyway that's all I'm gonna cover for now this was just a brief look at the simulated benchmarks and we'll obviously wait till I have the real 1900 X in hand before we get or in depth and throw tons of benchmarks at you but I will also be doing another thread Ripper video really soon at least I hope I will be because I will be updating my editing rig as I promised I want to go to the 1950 X and with that I will be using the MSI X 399 gaming Pro carbon ac so keep an eye out for that oh and just lastly if you have an old PC in need of a few upgrades or perhaps you know a friend or family member there in need of upgrading their PC then check out 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