AMD Document Is Listing More Ryzen, but also Threadripper 29x0 Zen+ Processors

#5541852 Posted on: 04/28/2018 07:21 PM

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TR 2950x ....


.... I'm having an orgasm.

#5541867 Posted on: 04/28/2018 08:50 PM

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Just think about the EPYC refresh, they can achieve much higher turbo clock now in same TDP.... RIP INTEL overpriced XEONS!

#5541871 Posted on: 04/28/2018 09:09 PM

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Shouldn't they have died on the first gen?
There's always going to be those stubborn people that buy Xeons either because of support, bribing, or purely because major OEM's are pushed by Intel not to use AMD.
From a business perspective, I think AMD machines are much more appealing now over Intel, but there's much more to add on the equations.

#5541917 Posted on: 04/29/2018 12:01 AM

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Discussion earlier this year with the service provider of the company I work for:

Me: So, our server is 4 years old, it's probably time to upgrade it. Can we get once of those awesome EPYC CPU's from AMD ?
SP: No, sorry.
Me: Why ?
SP: We only use DELL machines.
Me: So ? Isn't DELL selling any server with AMD EPYC ?
SP: No, DELL only sells machines with Intel Xeons
Me: *Sadpanda*

That's why AMD can't catch a break, it's being sabotaged everywhere.

#5541921 Posted on: 04/29/2018 12:06 AM

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Dell announced some Epyc machines within the last few months.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12395/more-epyc-servers-dell-launches-1p-and-2p-poweredge-for-hpc-and-virtualization

#5541927 Posted on: 04/29/2018 12:45 AM

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Anyone building or getting a PC now I simply can not recommend Intel at all. With the 2xxx series now the IPC gap is so small it doesn't even mean anything. Then you factor in price, future socket support, temperatures with rubbish TIM, a rubbish iGPU that literally no one uses as a gamer. AMD just have all the avenues covered, you can get a cheaper AMD Ryzen APU that are actually capable of gaming too, then later on upgrade to a much more powerful chip and not have to worry about socket and motherboards. Kinda solves the problem of the current GPU prices, just get an APU to tide you over til GPU prices come down. Then get a GPU and use the APU til you can afford a better CPU.

Intel seriously dropped the ball. Ive had Intel since 2006 (conroe core 2). So I am not an AMD fanboy at all. I haven't owned an AMD GPU since the HD7970 either.

It's a no brainer to go AMD for CPU at the moment, sure Intel won't just sit back and let this happen so I expect them to come out fighting. Which just means great news for all of us.

#5541933 Posted on: 04/29/2018 01:33 AM

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So the new threadripper is going to be 16 cores and 32 threads? Just making sure I'm not missing something here.

this could be the proper setup I've been waiting for.....

#5541940 Posted on: 04/29/2018 02:36 AM

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Any sign of new g-type processors?

#5541941 Posted on: 04/29/2018 02:41 AM

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EPYC refresh is going to be more than that-- its not going to be on 12nm Zen+, its going to be 7nm Zen 2!! Its going to have faster clocks, better IPC, better power consumption, better everything than even Zen+. Unless Intel do something drastic, its going to kick some Xeon ass...

#5541942 Posted on: 04/29/2018 02:48 AM

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And consider the larger picture: Intel showed what they'll do without competition. The future would have been terrible compared to what we can now hope for. That's all due to the courage of AMD, who somehow came back after so many disastrous years. They could easily have dropped out!

Think about it folks - that was a close call.

Simply to protect ourselves we need to support AMD when we can. It's easy now that they have almost every base covered. Even those fixated on single-thread, benchmark FPS performance should consider: If you buy Intel you are rewarding the company that screwed us all and would have kept doing so and will return to that if AMD gives up. It's that simple.

I'm not a blind fanboy. If the roles were reversed I'd be supporting Intel, a company whose tech capabilities I admire. But Ryzen showed what Intel should have been doing and gives us, finally, a generally superior alternative. An amazing development. Buy AMD.

#5541947 Posted on: 04/29/2018 03:19 AM

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So the new threadripper is going to be 16 cores and 32 threads? Just making sure I'm not missing something here.

this could be the proper setup I've been waiting for.....

That's what they were the first gen as well.

#5541971 Posted on: 04/29/2018 08:23 AM

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Anyone building or getting a PC now I simply can not recommend Intel at all.

It's a no brainer to go AMD for CPU at the moment, sure Intel won't just sit back and let this happen so I expect them to come out fighting. Which just means great news for all of us.

You can't but plenty of us can (recommend it). And no it's not really a no brainer. Well it is, but in intel's favour, if you're a gamer at least. Ryzen simply have such limitations on core speed and gaming performance and issues with memory (even Zen + has seen these issues, every single reviewer out there has been proving this) - where as intel you simply put your system together, overclock it and bam, it works.

I'm no intel fanboy, however AMD still have some catching up to do. There are even content creators who PREFER to use AMD who have had to switch back to Intel due to issues (go on youtube and check Hardware Canucks).

So, YOU may not recommend Intel, but the rest of us do. And no, they (Intel) haven't dropped the ball, or any other spherical object, but granted AMD is starting to catch up. They need to iron out all the issues Zen+ is still facing and then they might actually be the way to go for gamers and content creators alike

#5541980 Posted on: 04/29/2018 08:49 AM

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Good luck "gaming" and being a "serious gamer" at 720p, brah.



Congratulations! You just won best joke of 2018!.

#5541981 Posted on: 04/29/2018 08:49 AM

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This is where they're putting all the 2800X we're not getting 'yet'...

#5541982 Posted on: 04/29/2018 08:55 AM

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where as intel you simply put your system together, overclock it and bam, it works.


You are funny. When I built this Skylake PC, I couldn't get my system to post succesfully with a full ram set, I only got to bios by using half of it. After a bios update I could use the full set, but mem test produced an error after an error with the full set, though half of it worked either way. I needed to take the RAM set back to the store and get another model. Intel isn't magically free of problems. In fact it even has errors barely manageable, like the Meltdown and Spectre, when fixed giving you less performance than you paid for. But I guess that's one kind of a bam as well.