Threadripper vs Ryzen 9950X

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I have a Threadripper 1920 system which I built back in 2018/9. I bought it since it allowed a lot more lanes on the PCI bus since I wanted to use the machine with multiple GPU for 3D rendering. It has served me well but is getting on a bit especially the single core speed in Cinebench 2024 which is about 60... I am thinking of upgrading to the Ryzen 9950x cpu which I think scores 130 in Cinebench on the single core front?

Anyway, I was wondering most recent motherboards only seem to have two GPU slots these days but then again the GPUs are a lot faster so you wouldn't need four of them in a build - maybe two? Also I wonder how much more performance I would be getting over my Threadripper 1920 against the Ryzen 9950X - twice as fast? Not interested in the Ryzen 9950X3D since it doesn't make any difference for what I want to use it for.

Looking forwards to anything anyone has to shed on the scenario.
 
Sounds like unless I want to shell out on a new threadripper system, which seem to be MUCH more expensive these days, I would be better off with a Ryzen 9950x cpu and a newer GPU. I use two RTX 2800ti cards which have been great but I guess an RTX 4080 or RTX 5080 would be more than twice the speed and only one card.
 
I don't think I would go down the threadripper route these days since those machines are very expensive and I don't do as much work as I used to. I have been told that the logic board I had my eye on, the MSI X870E Carbon, apparently cannot run 2 GPU's at x16, it can run two GPU's but it would be 8/4 configuration as they share the bandwidth. The ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator will run 8/8 in certain configurations... But as Adrian said this will probably have no effect on GPU rendering. I mean what's the point of two GPU slots on these boards if you cannot use them?
 
Adrianr said:
Unfortunately with covid gouging + current AI driven prices it does feel like that period was a bit of a golden age that is now coming to an end/already over.
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I am beginning to think the same Adrian. It was bad enough with the cost of GPUs a few years ago with the miniers which is why I bought both of my RTX 2800ti GPUs second hand. And they have been fine. The only thing I wouldn't buy second hand would be hard drives - data is not replaceable ;)
 
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