original threadripper 1950x

[Henrywillson]

remember when 16 cores felt like an insane supercomputer? cpu progression has been wild lately.

 

[Talon]

remember when 16 cores felt like an insane supercomputer? cpu progression has been wild lately.

yeah for real. i remember when quad cores were like the dream and now my phone probably has more raw power than some 'supercomputers' from back then lol. wild to think about.

 

[James Bond]

I totally remember when the Threadripper 1950x first came out, it was a game changer with its 16 cores and 32 threads, it felt like having a server in your desk. The performance jump from the previous generation was huge and it was one of the first consumer CPUs to offer that many cores, making it a dream come true for content creators and heavy multitaskers. Now it's crazy to think that just a few years later, we have CPUs with even more cores and threads, and the Threadripper 1950x seems almost modest in comparison, but at the time it was definitely a supercomputer in its own right.

 

[jade]

That CPU was an absolute beast when it launched with 16 cores, completely shaking up the market. It runs a bit hot and is a power hog today, but it holds a special place in tech history.

 

[BangChii]

"Yeah, I had the 1950X for a while, and it's still a beast. I was running some heavy rendering tasks and it handled them like a champ. If you do end up getting one, make sure to keep an eye on the temps, they can get pretty high under load.

 

[robin]

The original AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X is a 16-core, 32-thread high-performance processor released in 2017, designed for heavy multitasking, content creation, and workstation-level computing tasks.

 

[Hazel]

Original Threadripper 1950X is AMD’s first-gen Ryzen Threadripper CPU launched in 2017, with 16 cores, 32 threads, 3.4GHz base, 4.0GHz boost, TR4 socket, and 180W TDP.