AMD Threadripper 2950X versus i9 line?

[Kayley]

I forgot how to get ingame readings like what you posted MiRai. The main is in Boralus and my alts are in Dalaran--- beating on a turnip. I found that while dpsing it puts a realistic stress on the CPU/GPU to give a more accurate reading.

I lowered my CPU OC to 4.4ghz to match your cpu better. I removed the GPU's OC entirely.
Renderscale 100%. Slaves set to 1. DX11. Physics Interaction Player only. Main settings 10, 3440x1440p. Here
*edit* Slaves are 20fps background and the foreground is 144fps *edit* 30 'slaves' and my main. So 31.

I then thought maybe it's some weird 21:9 vs 16:9 bug. So I messed with the renderscale and had it output @ 5120x2880 (renderscale 200% - 2560x1440, XB270HU- old monitor) . Had my girls fighting a turnip in dalaran, took my main into LFR. 45-55fps consistent. I then had my friends pull all the trash and unload AOE style~ that caused my poor little 980ti to be overwhelmed; stuttered and dropped frames (20fps). Here

Notice how under normal WoW gameplay (first picture) my GPU doesn't really even come out of powersaving. Goes up 30w. When I changed the resolution to 5120x2880 it went to 250w.

FWIW a friend is playing 20 on a 3570k. Although he has optimised his setups to allow it to work out ok. (renderscale 0.1 on alts etc etc).

*second edit*
Due to RAM being so overpriced I just bought a extra SSD and use it as a dedicated storage for Pagefile.sys.
Frees up physical RAM and the performance hit is really negligable. Maybe that helps too? I don't know.

*third edit*
I had a look at MadMilitia's setup as you mentioned.. the 1080 gtx is better than my 980ti's for sure, but the CPU is very different. 8mb cache vs 20mb. 16 pcie lanes vs 40. The Memory bandwidth is half- 34gb/s vs 64gb/s. I'd expect it to struggle a little bit-- but not as much as it was.