Zen2 architecture not only 7nm process up to 16 cores and 32 threads
After a survey which revealed that AMD Ryzen's failure to hit its advertised clock speeds, AMD admits having an issue on its firmware that causes the poor performance. (Photo: steamXO/flickr)

The AMD Ryzen Sharkstooth, the 3rd generation Ryzen Threadripper surprisingly surfaced recently in the database of Geekbench. The 32 core processor based on the Zen 2 7nm architecture of AMD showcased an impressive performance increase than the current flagship HEDT processors available in the market. The AMD Ryzen Sharkstooth surfaced on the same database today and once again proves just how interesting AMD Ryzen's next-generation Threadripper.

Wccftech called the AMD Ryzen Sharkstooth as the mega-tasking beast that annihilates all other single HEDT CPU with 32 cores today. The site reports that the AMD Ryzen Sharkstooth has the same engineering sample appeared on the Geekbench database, but this time there is a little bit change in terms of clock speeds. The previous chip and this one share the same configurations of 32 cores and 64 threads.

Both have 16 MB of L2 and 128 MB of L3 cache. But, the aggregated cache on AMD Ryzen Sharkstooth is 144 MB while the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32 cores only feature 8 MB of L2 and 64 MB of L3 cache with a total cache of 72 MB. The difference between the two products is that the former chip has a clock speed base frequency of 3.60 GHz with boost frequency not listed for the previous entry.

The latest entry, the AMD Ryzen Sharkstooth has both the boost and the base clock speed. It lists a base clock speed of 2.20 GHz and a boost clock speed of 4.17 GHz. Based on the OS they were tested, both products show the massive difference. Take note that Linux entries have scores usually higher compared to Windows entries.

Considering that the latest AMD Ryzen Sharkstooth entry was made under Windows 10, the score is expected to be much lower than the previous entry. In terms of performance, the AMD Ryzen Sharkstooth has a single core test score of 5532 and a multi-core test score of 68,576. At its stock frequencies, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX scored 4800 points in single core test and 36,000 points in the multi-core test.

It is also surprising to note that the AMD Ryzen Zen 2 based threadripper has a higher single-core performance score against the Intel W-3175X which features a much higher base and boost frequencies. This simply shows how fast the AMD Ryzen Sharkstooth Threadripper is going to be.