'Final nail in Intels workstation coffin': AMD ThreadRipper Pro 9000 rips through Intel's Xeon in a desperately one-sided review

Date:
Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:06:00 +0000

Description:
AMD Threadripper Pro 9000 series outperforms Intel Xeon in creative benchmarks, yet Intels ecosystem stability preserves its relevance for some enterprise workloads.

FULL STORY ======================================================================AMD Threadripper Pro 9995WX outpaces Intel Xeon W9-3495X significantly in
Premiere Pro benchmarks Video editing PC workloads benefit from AMDs higher core density and sustained throughput Measured gains in DaVinci Resolve and After Effects highlight Threadrippers content creation strength

AMDs Threadripper PRO 9000WX series has delivered a blow that Intels Xeon workstation CPUs may not recover from.

Benchmarks from Puget Systems covering real-world content creation applications found the new Threadripper chips outperformed Intels Xeon W-3500 series across nearly every category, often by wide margins which left little room for excuses or rebuttal.

At the top of AMDs stack is the 96-core 9995WX, priced at $11,700, delivering a Cinebench 2024 multi-core score of 7,508, 27% ahead of the previous-gen 7995WX and a staggering 125% faster than Intels most powerful Xeon tested. Threadripper pulls ahead?

Even AMDs mid-range 9975WX with 32 cores ($4,100) routinely beat Intels 60-core w9-3595X in workloads like Blender, DaVinci Resolve, and Unreal
Engine compiling.

Intels best simply couldnt keep up, either in raw throughput or clock speed, and often looked inefficient by comparison.

In Photoshop, where high single-core speed matters, AMD's 16-core 9955WX came out on top with an overall score of 11,384 - whereas Intel's Xeon w5-3535X managed only 6,801, barely 60% of AMDs best showing.

Even the weakest Threadripper 9000 chip tested outperformed every Intel CPU across the board in Adobes suite of creative tools, including Premiere Pro
and After Effects.

In After Effects 3D workloads, the 9955WX again dominated with a 9% lead over the 9995WX and a 40% advantage over Intels top performer.

DaVinci Resolve further emphasized Intels problem: the 9975WX scored 180 in Intraframe processing, a 10% improvement over AMDs previous generation, while Xeons lagged by more than 20%.

AI-related benchmarks using LLaMA.cpp showed consistent scaling on AMD, with the 9995WX processing 16% more tokens per second than its predecessor.

Intels Xeon parts trailed even lower-tier Threadripper models here, further underlining their inefficiency in modern workloads.

Workstation tasks like compiling in Visual Studio or shader building in Unreal Engine showed predictable trends.

The 9995WX and 9985WX completed these tasks dramatically faster, with the former finishing Unreal Engine compilation in 68% of the time required by the previous generation.

Intels Xeons simply couldnt compete; even their 60-core chip was outpaced by AMDs 32-core offering.

While AMD's new processors come with a 1020% price increase over the 7000WX line, the performance uplift and DDR5-6400 support help justify it.

In nearly every test, AMDs dominance was clear and systematic, leaving Intels Xeon series looking outdated and overpriced. You might also like These are
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