There’s no debate that Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995 WX is one of the most powerful processors AMD has ever made. While this trailblazing CPU will find plenty of room to flex its proverbial processing muscles in workstations, one enthusiast decided to test the CPU’s abilities in ways some may consider unnatural. Can the chip run Doom and Crysis? Obviously, yes, but that’s not the end of this line of questioning.
YouTuber Level1Techs received a system from Falcon Northwest, complete with Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995 WX. To complement such a monstrous processor, they then added an Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition to the build. This is about as powerful a CPU-GPU combo as you could hope for in a modern workstation.
Through Multi Instance GPU (MIG), Level1Techs is able to split their RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition into four virtual GPUs, each with 24GB of VRAM. However, doing so disables the physical DisplayPort outputs, and Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995 WX doesn’t come with integrated graphics.
With a workaround in place and yet another RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell WorkStation Edition slotted into the system, Level1Techs now has a whopping 192GB of total VRAM to split across virtual machines. Such an enormous single pool actually causes Crysis to crash, but splitting the capacity enables eight instances of the game to run flawlessly.
More impressively, with 96 cores to share across the virtual machines, each instance of Crysis is able to have its own eight-core Zen 5 chiplet each with plenty left over. More specifically, Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995 WX still has 32 cores, or four chiplets, left to play with after this divvying up.
Perhaps the greatest demonstration of the processor’s power comes from running four virtual machines, each with 100 instances of Doom. That’s 400 copies of the game running simultaneously, using a mere four-to-five Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995 WX’s chiplets.
Level1Techs actually forgot one of their virtual machines was running 100 copies of Doom while conducting a Cinebench. Their multi-score in the processor benchmark was only 500pts lower, amounting to a minor dent.
While the likes of Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995 WX and RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell WorkStation Edition should never be bought with gaming in mind, it’s fun to see so much bandwidth and performance put to work in this manner. Now, I’m curious to see how creators like Level1Techs can push the system in more appropriate workloads, namely AI, video editing and so on.
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