HEXUS Bang4Buck and Bang4Watt
The performance benchmarks on the previous pages tell part of the story, but it is always fun to add some Bang4Buck metrics into the mix. Do be aware that there are many methods of calculating such results - different benchmarks will skew the outcome, and prices can both fluctuate daily and vary wildly depending on region.
We've chosen to use the multi-threaded Cinebench R20 test as a basis for our results, and pricing was taken from Newegg.com, or SRP pricing, as on November 22, 2019.
These scores simply divide the Cinebench R20 score by the dollar price or SRP.
Remember their $1,399 and $1,999 price tags? Ordinarily such pricing would crush the value metric. Yet AMD can justify the pricing on the basis of massive all-core performance.
And the same is true of efficiency. There's no way around it, the 3rd Gen Threadrippers are hungry beasts. Their scintillating performance more than makes up for the significant power draw, however.
This metric takes 12.35 as the ceiling for Bang4Buck, and 39.93 for Bang4Watt, and combines them into a weighted score where a maximum of 2 is possible.
Hard to look past the Ryzen 9 3950X, though it's barely half the speed of the 3970X, which is important to note for industries where rendering time is money.