Retesting the 2990WX
Earlier today, NVIDIA released version 399.24 of their GeForce drivers for Windows, citing Game Ready support for some newly released games including Shadow of the Tomb Raider, The Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout Beta, and Assetto Corsa Competizione early access.
While this in and of itself is a normal event, we shortly started to get some tips from readers about an interesting bug fix found in NVIDIA's release notes for this specific driver revision.
Specifically addressing performance differences between 16-core/32-thread processors and 32-core/64-thread processors, this patched issue immediately rang true of our experiences benchmarking the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX back in August, where we saw some games resulting in frames rates around 50% slower than the 16-core Threadripper 2950X.
This particular patch note lead us to update out Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX test platform to this latest NVIDIA driver release and see if there were any noticeable changes in performance.
The full testbed configuration is listed below:
Test System Setup | |
CPU |
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX |
Motherboard | ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme - BIOS 1304 |
Memory |
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3200 Operating at DDR4-2933 |
Storage | Corsair Neutron XTi 480 SSD |
Sound Card | On-board |
Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB |
Graphics Drivers | NVIDIA 398.26 and 399.24 |
Power Supply | Corsair RM1000x |
Operating System | Windows 10 Pro x64 RS4 (17134.165) |
Included at the end of this article are the full results from our entire suite of game benchmarks from our CPU testbed, but first, let's take a look at some of the games that provided particularly bad issues with the 2990WX previously.
The interesting data points for this testing are the 2990WX scores across both the driver revision we tested across every CPU, 398.26, as well as the results from the 1/4 core compatibility mode, and the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X. From the wording of the patch notes, we would expect gaming performance between the 16-core 2950X and the 32-core 2990WX to be very similar.
Grand Theft Auto V
GTA V was previously one of the worst offenders in our original 2990WX testing, with the frame rate almost halving compared to the 2950X.
However, with the newest GeForce driver update, we see this gap shrinking to around a 20% difference.
Continue reading our revised look at Threadripper 2990WX gaming performance!!
Podcast #439 - GTX 1080 Ti, Radeon RX Vega, and Ryzen
Subject: Editorial | March 2, 2017 - 11:37 AM | Alex Lustenberg
Tagged: Vega, ryzen, podcast, fcat, 1080Ti, 1080
PC Perspective Podcast #439 - 03/02/17
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