With the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series having just been announced at Computex, it’s a good time to revisit the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series performance ahead of those Zen 5 HEDT CPUs launching in July. In this article is a look at how the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-core and 7980X 64-core HEDT processors have evolved on the same system with the software updates released since their late 2023 debut. Overall the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X and 7980X Linux performance is up by about 8% overall since launch day less than two years ago with the 64-core processor.
Today’s article is looking at the original AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X and 7980X benchmarks carried out on launch day back in November 2023 compared to the latest performance now in May 2025 with an up-to-date Linux software stack as well as the newest BIOS. The same components were used for that testing then and now with the ASUS PRO WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI motherboard, AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics, 4 x 32GB DDR5-4800 GSKILL Ripjaws S5 ECC memory, and 1TB WD_BLACK SN850X NVME SSD.
Back in 2023 there were also Linux benchmarks of the Threadripper PRO 7995WX within a HP G5 Z6 A workstation. Unfortunately, however, that review unit had to be returned after testing and thus not able to provide any 2025 benchmarks for that top-end AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series platform. Thus for this launch day versus now comparison it’s only the Threadripper 7970X and 7980X available for comparison.
From launch day to today it meant going from Ubuntu 23.10 to Ubuntu 25.04. The latest Ubuntu Linux release meant going from Linux 6.5 to Linux 6.14, GCC 13.2 to GCC 14.2 as the newer code compiler, and an assortment of other software upgrades over this period. Again, the same exact hardware was used for this comparison with simply having the latest BIOS and Ubuntu Linux software improvements deployed to this Threadripper 7000 series HEDT workstation.
