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The performance benchmarks on the previous pages tell part of the story, but it is also interesting to see how CPUs compare once value and power efficiency are put into the equation.
We have taken both single- and multi-threaded applications in the form of PiFast and Cinebench and then calculated how the CPUs line up once launch price is factored in. We also graph up single- and multi-threaded relative performance with the TDP factored in, hence a bang4watt for both workloads.
The $999 and $799 asking fee is hard to get around from a bang4buck perspective. Both Threadrippers score understandably poorly in the low-load PiFast test because their average performance is beset by the high asking price.
It's rare for expensive CPUs to break out of the bottom of the Cinebench graph, but such is the speed of Threadripper, scoring over 3,000 for the 1950X, that the value perspective is relatively good.
The bottom graph shows that spending double on Threadripper 1950X, compared to a Ryzen 7 1800X, results in almost twice the performance. More importantly for AMD, Threadripper has the beating of all premium Intel CPUs in this vital metric.
