AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX Processor Review

By Nathan Kirsch

Power Consumption

Power consumption is something that you should be aware of with regards to processors as someone is going to be paying the electric bill. The AMD Ryzen 2000 series ranges between 65W and 250W TDP, which is a very wide power range.

  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX – 250W TDP
  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X – 180W TDP
  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X – 105W TDP
  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700 – 65W TDP
  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600X – 95W TDP
  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600 – 65W TDP

The release of the Ryzen Threadripper 2990X have shown that we picked really poor load tests. Handbrake only supports up to 32-cores and in ‘Game Mode’ only 1/4 of the 2990WX cores are available for use. This means none of our load numbers are actually showing full load results on the 2990WX. We’ll be going back and using Blender for our CPU load tests to get a true look at 100% CPU load power numbers. We also noticed that between ‘Creator’ and ‘Game’ mode that the idle powered would differ by about 20 Watts, so we might need to include two idle power results for Threadripper in the future. The idle and handbrake numbers above are using the Creator mode, but the Far Cry 5 numbers are in Game mode.

Let’s take a look at overclocking where we’ll talk some more about power numbers on Blender for the 2990WX at both stock and overclocked settings.