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TCE: AMD is well aware of the thermal properties...

And they have the 32 core Epyc version for server which is apparently clocked much lower but has twice the number of cpu die. It is very likely that it is an engineering sample. And the bios is probably still being finished. So it is hard to say why it scales badly. But I also noticed that low clocked Intel high core count Xeons didn't scale as expected either. A Ryzen 1800X gets a score of 21439. Theoretically a 16 core processor should get into the 30s you would think. And yet none of the Xeons break 30k. Geekbench does not appear to scale very well above 8 cores and frequency seems to be pretty significant in the final score so it probably isn't the greatest benchmark for high core count cpus. Still it does scale and the high core count Xeons do get in to the high twenties. It is a suprising result as Threadripper is apparently clocked at 3.4GHZ and it should have done better. I guess we know why it hasn't launched yet :)