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AMD ZEN3 ThreadRipper with 16 cores in the pipeline?
We do love our share of cryptography, the one posted by Yuri Bubliy (1USMUS from Ryzen-Clocktuner and DRAM Calculator) was easy to solve though. He posted a cryptic tweet indicative of a bit of leaked info.
On Twitter, he posted 47454e4553495320313620434f524553, which unmistakably is a hexadecimal value, converted that reads GENESIS 16 CORES. And why is this news? Well, the current gen does not have a 16-core part anymore as regular Ryzen takes care of that.
So that is an indication of a 16-core part, current Castle Peak generation is based on 24, 32, and 64 cores. In the generations before that, there have been 1950X and 2950X 16-core parts. Interestingly enough there of course already is a 16-core ZEN3 part, the Ryzen 9 5950X. However, with Threadrippers aimed at workstations, we can assume they'd offer more memory channels and PCIe lanes. Genesis is the codename for the upcoming Threadrippers, which are ZEN3 based. And knowing AMD, probably can expect these in the Summer of 2021.
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#5873436 Posted on: 01/02/2021 02:52 PM
Treadrippers are overkill for my usage but I would not say no to one .
Beastly cpu's
Treadrippers are overkill for my usage but I would not say no to one .
Beastly cpu's
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#5873442 Posted on: 01/02/2021 03:24 PM
Oh man! I'll be standing by @Hilbert Hagedoorn for some beautiful reviews comparing the previous gen 24 core up against their newest offerings.
Hoping for a close to all core 5Ghz on a 24 core baby!
Already get an all core of 4.35Ghz on my 3960X and that's only with fine tuning the TDC, EDC and PPT.
Almost 400 watts and that baby sits in the 60-65C range. Still thinking of getting my Optimus block that's still available on it. Maybe drop another ten degrees from my velocity block!!
Oh man! I'll be standing by @Hilbert Hagedoorn for some beautiful reviews comparing the previous gen 24 core up against their newest offerings.
Hoping for a close to all core 5Ghz on a 24 core baby!
Already get an all core of 4.35Ghz on my 3960X and that's only with fine tuning the TDC, EDC and PPT.
Almost 400 watts and that baby sits in the 60-65C range. Still thinking of getting my Optimus block that's still available on it. Maybe drop another ten degrees from my velocity block!!
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#5873445 Posted on: 01/02/2021 03:29 PM
A 16 core Zen 3 Threadripper seems strange. I guess the purpose is to get you to buy a more expensive motherboard as you plan to start with a 16 core and move up later.
I don't expect that the 5950X and a 16 core Zen 3 Threadripper to be miles apart.
A 16 core Zen 3 Threadripper seems strange. I guess the purpose is to get you to buy a more expensive motherboard as you plan to start with a 16 core and move up later.
I don't expect that the 5950X and a 16 core Zen 3 Threadripper to be miles apart.
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#5873449 Posted on: 01/02/2021 03:45 PM
Im sure AMD didnt increase the core count of TR3 becouse Intel cant catch up. Even 11gen have 100% less cores.
Im sure AMD didnt increase the core count of TR3 becouse Intel cant catch up. Even 11gen have 100% less cores.
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Hmm well a Zen3 "Ripper" seems plausible would have thought these had more cores and then scaled down in later models starting with the 32's or 64's even but this matches the highest core count with the 5950X I think yeah and as a ThreadRipper now on Zen3 so updates to the TR4 platform and motherboards I would think also should be incoming same as Zen3 support on 500 series boards after bios updates.
Separate code too here so probably less to do with the work on fixing up remaining AGESA 1.1.0.0 and newer and support for Ryzen 5000 interesting anyway whether it's getting that resolved first or just needing some more time to make Thread Rippers out of the Zen3 now that the desktop chips are in full production.
Wonder what these will have on the existing Thread Rippers, similar advantages I suppose as on the desktop Zen3's guess it's a good idea moving them to the newest process.
EDIT: And then the whole allocation and wafers and production, TSMC's going to have a lot of orders to fill but if that plant that's under construction gets active this year maybe that will help.
(Could be a while though for that to hit full production capacity first.)
EDIT: Should be good though, hardware fixes and other improvements here, higher clock speeds and all that too.