Beyond what I need at the moment or what I would ever spend on a CPU but nice to see some competition in the CPU market. That said my question is how come the single thread performance is so higher on Threadripper then on Ryzen? Historically the more cores you cram into a CPU the less single thread performance you create.
Single threaded perf isn't really that much higher, but you should note that AMD is binning these CPUs and only the top 5% are chosen. This potentially means better XFR boost speeds (it's why both have a 200MHz XFR on 1 to 4 cores) and better OCing. The extra memory bandwidth should also help in some situations.
PS: Some motherboard manufacturers are saying that they are working on bios updates that will help with more than just bugs/weird quirks, like lowering the voltage needed to OC which could potentially allow the CPUs to hit 4.0+ (4.1-4.2 on all cores) at workable voltages and temps. some reviewers hit 4.1 stable on the 1920x already with a good cooler and others had trouble reaching 4.0 on the 1950x (3.95GHz stable)