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Cheers, really good info. As I don't do 3d work the top spec thread ripper won't actually be that beneficial (cost to performance wise) as most of the software I use doesn't seem to be written to really take advantage of the architecture.
I'm not sure about happiness but if you buy a threadripper is it mandatory to get a case with neon flashing led go faster stripes?
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Yeah, Thread Ripper is the top AMD that is currently kicking butt.
The problem with Intel is that even though on paper they look compelling, there are trade-offs. For example you get great built-in video codecs... but they've had so many security issues with their chips that there's actually a software performance penalty with Intel due to Meltdown and Spectre, two issues which force them to downgrade their performance to be secure (and no you can't effectively disable this, the updates shipped was operating systems).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/intel-has-a-big-problem-it-needs-to-act-like-it
So on paper the top Intel is super fast, but AMD don't have the same security issues that Intel does so even equivalents make AMD faster as the Intel are being held back, their optimisations disabled.
But... Intel optimisations like the hardware encoding for video... well that isn't disabled, and does make a difference.
So yeah... it's confusing and murky as to what is best... in pure benchmarks the Thread Rippers are really outperforming the Intels, but in real world the Intels remain good enough.
At £3k though... well you aren't looking at the top AMD Ryzen Threadripper chips as those are around £3k. So you're still just below the point where AMD massively pulls away from Intel in performance... you're shopping at the cusp of top i9s and lower Ryzen Threadripper... so I'd actually say... meh, no huge difference... highly comparable... buy what makes you happy :D