AMD vs Intel. Fight!

Also, i suggest to find on the internet some PC sellers with Threadrippers and ask them to run your benchmark. For example 3960x has 2x more cores, 2x more cache, 2x more memory channels. Processor also costs 2x vs 5900x and consumes at peak 2.5x more but still the whole PC will cost probably just 30-50% more if build it by yourself. There are a lot of testers on the internet who might be interested. Threadripper Pro is also coming in few months (i do not see first samples of it are much faster though)

On the net I find some insanely expensive prebuilt workstations for $8k with Threadrippers, i would make them myself for 2-3x less

Quoted from John-Silver We aint got any better almost a quarterof a century later !

John-S,

I think you know I don't agree !

I am presently analysing vibration transmission from a underground train tunnel into a high-rise above, using linear elastic direct integration, to estimate the transfer mobility. 150,000 nodes and 5,000 time steps for 10 different frequencies would not have been practical in 80's but I am getting useful results now. Rather than NASTRAN, I use my own software and it has been interesting to undertake the computation effort required.