AMD Threadripper 2950X versus i9 line?

[MiRai]

I run 30 WoW clients on 4 cores (8HT) - i7-5960x -and I play my main on settings 10, everything on, 3440x1440p with the remaining 4 cores WHILE goofing around on twitch/youtube/movies.

Now a single 980ti for the slaves (34% utlization in world pvp- big groups). A single 980ti for the 'main' .. 80fps in Uldir, pretty constant.. roughly 45fps in Boralus (tanks hard here for some reason).

Just to be clear, you run 30 (thirty) game clients, all rendering at 3440x1440, and they're all crammed onto 8 threads? That's almost 149 million pixels to render. However, you don't mention the framerates you're using.

To put things into perspective, I run five game clients at 3840x1630, which is about 31 million pixels, and while my 10C/20T CPU is fine (although much higher load than you're reporting), my 1080 Ti is easily pushing beyond 50% when I'm in BFA zones. To add to that, none of my game clients are using anywhere near a 10 preset for in-game video settings, and I'm running 60/25 fore/background framerates.

To provide an additional example case, MadMilitia, who plays at about the same resolution you do and has very similar hardware, was having a difficult time running 8 game clients back in Legion (with only one of his characters at 7 on the in-game settings slider).

I also went ahead and matched your core/thread settings with my setup, and below is the result of five game clients using the same settings up above, but in Silvermoon City, which has old textures and doesn't produce the same amount of load as MoP/WoD/Legion/BFA do.

https://i.imgur.com/wNgZ140.png

So, you can see that something might not be adding up here. I'm going to say that either I'm missing something, or you're, perhaps, misunderstanding how your setup is configured/rendering, and if you're using ISBoxer, then perhaps you should share your profile so that we can at least verify what your setup is doing.

Certain games will run better on certain hardware; that part wont change. No matter what you buy for multiboxing you will not even come close to maxing it unless you run an INSANE amount of clients.

Pretty much this. I'm still using a i7 930 (overclocked) for multiboxing and have 0 issues.

As stated above, we're missing a ton of details. Game? How many game clients? Resolution? In-game settings? Foreground/Background framerates? All of this is necessary information when telling others how your hardware performs.

Personally, I have my doubts that I'd be able to run my multiboxing setup on only an i7 930 system from almost 9 years ago. I have an old 2600K system that I fired up in Warlords of Draenor to see how it'd perform (single game client), and if I'm remembering correctly, I was both both CPU and GPU limited, and I was barely capable of pushing max settings at 2560x1080 @ 60 FPS.