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¹ Testing by AMD Performance Labs as of 10/4/2018. Application(s) used: Cinebench R15. Scores presented in order of Intel v. AMD (%diff). Multi-thread test: 3132 v. 4353 (39% faster). Single-thread test: 184 vs. 172 (6.52% slower). System configuration(s): ASUS ROG Zenith X399 Extreme + AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX vs. ASUS PRIME X299-Deluxe + Core i9-7960X, 4x8GB DDR4-3200C14, Corsair H100 v2 Cooler, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (driver 398.36), Samsung 850 PRO SSD, Windows® 10 x64 Pro (RS4), Results may vary with system config and drivers. RP2-34

² Testing by AMD Performance Labs as of 10/4/2018. Application(s) used: Cinebench R15. Scores presented in order of Intel v. AMD (%diff). Multi-thread test: 1686 v. 2617 (55% faster). Single-thread test: 178 vs. 183 (2.73% slower). System configuration(s): ASUS ROG Zenith X399 Extreme + AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X vs. ASUS PRIME X299-Deluxe + Core i7-7820X, 4x8GB DDR4-3200C14, Corsair H100 v2 Cooler, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (driver 398.36), Samsung 850 PRO SSD, Windows® 10 x64 Pro (RS4), Results may vary with system config and drivers. RP2-30

³ Testing by AMD Performance Labs as of 10/4/2018. Application(s) used: Overwatch (4K resolution with High IQ Preset), OBS Video Encoding (40,000Kbps CBR, Faster CPU Usage, High Profile, 3840x2160, Lanczos resize). Results presented in order of Intel vs. AMD (% difference). Overwatch: 91 FPS vs. 76 FPS (19% slower); OBS Encoding Frame Drop Rate: 0% vs. 66%. System configuration(s): ASUS ROG Zenith X399 Extreme + AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X vs. ASUS PRIME X299-Deluxe + Core i7-7820X, 4x8GB DDR4-3200C14, Corsair H100 v2 Cooler, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (driver 398.36), Samsung 850 PRO SSD, Windows® 10 x64 Pro (RS4), Results may vary with system config and drivers. RP-33

⁴ Testing by AMD Performance Labs as of 10/4/2018. Application(s) used: POV-Ray 3.7 nT, Corona 1.3, V-Ray 1.0.8, DaVinci Resolve 15, Maya 2018. Scores presented in order of Intel v. AMD (%diff). POV-Ray: 6370 v. 8429 (32% faster); Corona: 60 seconds vs. 50 seconds (21% faster); V-Ray: 39 seconds vs. 31 seconds (26% faster); DaVinci Resolve: 114 seconds vs. 89 seconds (22% faster); Maya: 157 seconds vs. 135 seconds (14% faster). System configuration(s): ASUS ROG Zenith X399 Extreme + AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX vs. ASUS PRIME X299-Deluxe + Core i9-7960X, 4x8GB DDR4-3200C14, Corsair H100 v2 Cooler, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (driver 398.36), Samsung 850 PRO SSD, Windows® 10 x64 Pro (RS4), Results may vary with system config and drivers. RP2-35.

⁵ Testing by AMD Performance Labs as of 10/4/2018. Application(s) used: POV-Ray 3.7 nT (“raytracing”), TrueCrypt 7.1a (“encryption”), 7-Zip 18.01 (“file compression”), Blender Benchmark 1.0beta (3D rendering), HandBrake 1.0.7 (“video encoding”). Scores presented in order of Intel v. AMD (%diff). POV-Ray: 3717 v. 5146 (38.4% faster); TrueCrypt: 10GBps vs. 6 GBps (60% faster); 7-Zip: 49669 MIPS vs. 68924 MIPS (39% faster); Blender: 3798 seconds vs. 2824 seconds (25% faster); Handbrake: 501 seconds vs. 381 seconds (31% faster). System configuration(s): ASUS ROG Zenith X399 Extreme + AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X vs. ASUS PRIME X299-Deluxe + Core i7-7820X, 4x8GB DDR4-3200C14, Corsair H100 v2 Cooler, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (driver 398.36), Samsung 850 PRO SSD, Windows® 10 x64 Pro (RS4), Results may vary with system config and drivers. RP2-31

⁶ Testing by AMD Performance Labs as of 10/4/2018. Results presented in order of Dynamic Local Mode OFF vs. ON (% difference). All games tested at 1920x1080 with the graphics API and in-game graphics preset noted. Far Cry 5 (DirectX 11/Ultra): 48 FPS vs. 53 FPS (10% faster); PUBG (DirectX 11/Ultra): 99 FPS vs. 111 FPS (12% faster); Battlefield 1 (DirectX 12/Ultra): 136 FPS vs. 200 FPS (47% faster); Alien: Isolation (DirectX® 11/Ultra): 199 FPS vs. 234 FPS (18% faster); Unreal Engine Compile Time: 954 seconds vs. 810 seconds (15% faster); SPECwpc® V2.1 Rodinia euler3d_cpu: 4.25 vs. 3.36 (21% faster). Average of results less Battlefield 1 outlier: 15.2% faster. System configuration: AMD Ryzen Threadripper Reference Motherboard, AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, 4x8GB DDR4-3200, GeForce GTX 1080 (driver 399.24), Samsung 850 Pro SSD, Windows 10 Pro x64 (RS4). Results may vary with drivers and system configuration. SPECwpc® V2.1 is the latest version of SPECwpc® as of 9 October 2018. Additional information about the SPEC benchmarks can be found at www.spec.org/gwpg. RP2-36

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