With impressive performance at a highly competitive price, the rise of AMD CPUs in recent years after being overshadowed by Intel is undeniable. Although Intel still holds the majority market share, the continuous domination of Ryzen-branded CPUs in the DIY (Do It Yourself) segment in many countries is proof of Team Red’s undeniable appeal.
In fact, many tech-savvy users have switched from Intel CPUs to AMD CPUs in recent years due to their excellent performance. Legendary programmer Linus Torvalds is one of them, as the creator of the Linux operating system recently revealed that he just installed an AMD CPU in his new machine. According to Linus Torvalds, the CPU model he chose is the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X – a chip from AMD’s HEDT (High-End Desktop) line.
Notably, this is also the first time he has used a CPU from AMD after 15 years of exclusively using Intel CPUs. This is certainly enough to make AMD officials proud, as the performance of Ryzen chips has now been sufficient to convince a longtime Intel fanboy like Linus Torvalds to abandon Team Blue for Team Red.
In reality, the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X is one of AMD’s best-performing CPUs currently. Developed on a 7nm process based on the Zen 2 architecture, the standout feature of the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X is its core/thread count. This chip boasts 32 cores and 64 threads, along with 128MB of cache. It has a base clock speed of 3.7GHz, while the boost clock can reach 4.5GHz.
With such a high core count, the Threadripper 3970X is an ideal CPU for applications designed to leverage multi-core and multi-thread capabilities, aimed at professional workstation users like Linus Torvalds.
With a price of $1,899 on Amazon, the performance-to-price ratio is also a strong point of the Threadripper 3970X. Compared to its HEDT rivals from Intel, the single and multi-core performance of the Threadripper 3970X is on par, and even surpasses in some applications.
In fact, the father of the Linux OS also revealed that his new PC using the AMD CPU runs three times faster than his old PC using an Intel CPU. This new PC is likely the main machine Linus will continue to develop the Linux operating system and other projects in the future. However, in the long term, Linus Torvalds may transition to using ARM architecture computers, as he himself has disclosed.
Source: Techspot