AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X Performance Analysis on TRX40 Motherboard

Test rigs

For our tests, we used a total 3 test systems … one is comprised of an ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X, along with the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Processor, a, while the other is an ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6, along with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X, and finally our main test rig system which is powered by a Ryzen Threadripper 3960X siting on an ASRock TRX40 Taichi motherboard. The system also include a 512B M.2 SSD and 32GB of DDR4-3200 ram in quad channel mode.

All tests were conducted at default clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.

Motherboard	ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X	ASRock X399 Taichi	ASRock TRX40 Taichi
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Processor (8/16) Base 3.6GHz – Boost 4.4GHz	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X Processor (16/32) Base 3.4GHz – Boost 4.0GHz	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X Processor (24/48) Base 3.8GHz – Boost 4.5GHz
Cooling	Noctua NH D15 Cooler	Corsair H115i Pro RGB Cooler	Noctua NH U12S TR4 Cooler
Ram	Patriot Viper Steel Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 ram	Corsair Vengenace RGB 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3000 ram	Thermaltake Toughram RGB 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200 ram
HDD	Adata SX 7000 240GB PCIE M.2 SSD	Patriot Hellfire 240GB PCIE M.2 SSD	Viper VPN100 512GB PCIE M.2 SSD
PSU	Thermaltake Toughpower RGB 750W	Cooler Master Silent Pro 1200W	Cooler Master V850 Gold 850W
VGA card	GeForce RTX 2080	GeForce RTX 2080	GeForce RTX 2080
Video Drivers	Latest Radeon Adrenalin Software Nvidia Geforce Game Ready drivers	Latest Radeon Adrenalin Software Nvidia Geforce Game Ready drivers	Latest Radeon Adrenalin Software Nvidia Geforce Game Ready drivers
OS	Windows 10	Windows 10	Windows 10

Installation

No issues with installation, however please be careful when mounting the CPU cooler. The heatsink and fan for the mosfets are quite large and fairly high in terms of height. There are 2 x 8-pin power connectors on the ASRock TRX40 Taichi motherboard, but there’s no need to connect up both of them, unless you’re running SLI or Crossfire multi-GPU. I only connected up one of the 1 x 8-pin power connectors and that worked just fine for me. 

BIOS

The BIOS on the ASRock TRX40 Taichi was simple to use. You’ll be able to select XMP profiles for the memory. However, I manually selected DDR4-3200 for the memory. All other options were left at default and untouched.

CPU-Z

AIDA64 Mobo/Chipset

Windows System Properties and Device Manager

Don’t you just love seeing SO many cores on the Windows Device manager window!