[5436436347]

Those (Anandtech) benchmarks were performed on Windows. All threadripper benchmarks on Linux show that it is nowhere near as awful a performer as on Windows and most compute workloads do scale okay. Seen multiple ideas thrown around like Windows not being NUMA aware with this processor or just plain bad core scheduling

[celrod]

For reference, here is a link to the Phoronix Windows vs Linux on the 2990WX article:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2990wx-l...

[s3cur3]

They did a follow up changing the scheduling policy for thread 0 (again, still on Windows) and it didn’t make a difference for almost all their workloads: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13446/the-quiz-on-cpu-0-playi...

[coder543]

AnandTech really needs to hire a Linux-focused editor to do some benchmarks there too, especially for these large systems that are unlikely to be running Windows anyways.

The Phoronix benchmarks are quite clear,[0] I don't know why you keep linking to AnandTech's Windows benchmarks. I say this as someone who reads tons of AnandTech reviews because they're great, but Windows just doesn't do well with high core count hardware at all.

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2990wx-l...

[mda]

See the phoronix benchmarks, linux performs much better on same workloads.