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    May 28, 2019 6 minutes

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    Hello Doc, I’m gearing up to build a workstation that will have dual use: 2560x1440 gaming and VR (on an Oculus Rift with three Oculus Sensors, which require USB 3.1), and for data science. I’m considering AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper and Intel’s Core i9-9900K. What are the real-world implications of the 64 PCIe lanes on Socket TR4-based motherboards versus the 24 lanes offered by the Z390 platform?

    In theory, Threadripper should be far superior. I can have a 16-lane graphics card, two M.2-attached SSDs in RAID, a four-lane 10Gb/s Ethernet controller, and a four-port USB add-in card, all fed by the host processor. With a Core i9, once I drop in the graphics card and one SSD, connectivity on Intel’s chip is maxed out, and everything else needs to funnel through the chipset’s paltry four-lane DMI. How much will performance differ between the two, though? It seems like Threadripper is better suited to VR because of the connectivity required by those Oculus Sensors.

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