Very Simple Threadripper question

[Ravendarat]

Hey guys I used the search function but didn't find the answer I was looking for in simple terms. What kind of useage would you need to be doing to make threadripper a better choice over 2700 cpu or similar? Im considering building a new tower to use instead of my gaming laptop and im not afraid to spend money when I know its of benefit, but im having a hard time figuring out if TR is a path worth traveling

[RollinLower]

Threadripper is something you want when you are running professional workloads that benefit from running parrallel on all the different cores. this includes lots of things, but definitely not gaming.

for gaming you want cores with higher per-core performance.

[factorialandha]

personally, id ask the question in the opposite way.

 

What kind of workloads are you wanting to do, and then someone will recommend the best option for you.

 

[Brooksie359]

If you are just gaming then the 2700 or 2700x is a better option than threadripper. 

[LukeSavenije]

virtualisation, heavy video editing, cad, things like that, I agree with @factorialandha, we should ask it the other way

[Ravendarat]

That's the answer I was looking for Luke, I had already kind of figured from other responses I had seen in threads that a 2700x or similar is a better choice for me, but knowing what the main use of a threadripper was for was why I started this post, just wanted the knowledge of its purpose. Thanks to everyone for posting

[Princess Luna]

19 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

virtualisation, heavy video editing, cad, things like that, I agree with @factorialandha, we should ask it the other way

A shame that Intel handles Virtualization extremely more efficiently and stable and also is the best option for actual video editing and now with quicksync rendering too.

 

But discussion for another day~

[LukeSavenije]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

A shame that Intel handles Virtualization extremely more efficiently and stable and also is the best option for actual video editing and now with quicksync rendering too.

 

But discussion for another day~

depends on the workload too, and we didn't even start with epyc, but agree, that's for another day...

[Pixel5]

there is also one more thing where threadripper may be the way to do wich is the need for many PCI-E lanes.

 

you get 64 PCI-E 3.0 lanes which is something you dont get on most other platforms.