AMD Announces Threadripper: 16-core and 32-threads processors confirmed

red6joker

2017-05-16 23:38

Damn, I am not sure if I should feel bad for the people who got the 1800x so soon. I wonder how many will jump to one of these.

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rsouzadk

2017-05-16 23:42

Nice. Bring it on AMD!

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Elder III

2017-05-17 00:09

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PrMinisterGR

2017-05-17 00:27

This is where the whole CCX approach pays off for them I guess. These things shouldn't really have much different yields than anything presented up until now, since it's the CCX yields that matter. That 10/20 part will most likely be at around $600 and it looks like the best sweetspot for "enthusiasts". I would also like to see Ryzen performing with quad channel memory.

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Evildead666

2017-05-17 01:11

This is where the whole CCX approach pays off for them I guess. These things shouldn't really have much different yields than anything presented up until now, since it's the CCX yields that matter. That 10/20 part will most likely be at around $600 and it looks like the best sweetspot for "enthusiasts". I would also like to see Ryzen performing with quad channel memory.

It certainly does look like good planning. With 7nm(+), they should be able to pop 32c/64t in one socket!!!

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Ssateneth

2017-05-17 01:53

It certainly does look like good planning. With 7nm(+), they should be able to pop 32c/64t in one socket!!!

Dont need 7nm. It was already announced that 32c/64t will be coming with the server segment, same socket. If you're talking about bringing 32c to HEDT, well, remains to be seen if server CPU can be plopped into HEDT motherboard since its the same socket, much like how highest end intel server CPU can be plopped into an X99 HEDT motherboard and work fine because its the same socket.

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Humanoid_1

2017-05-17 01:53

Yes! This is where I am heading for my next upgrade 🙂 Thinking I might invest in AMD too... should have done it a while back but was not able then.

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Humanoid_1

2017-05-17 01:59

Dont need 7nm. It was already announced that 32c/64t will be coming with the server segment, same socket. If you're talking about bringing 32c to HEDT, well, remains to be seen if server CPU can be plopped into HEDT motherboard since its the same socket, much like how highest end intel server CPU can be plopped into an X99 HEDT motherboard and work fine because its the same socket.

Certainly as you saw they are going to be focusing, in a large part, on the 1 CPU server market which is one of the biggest markets they can fill with their high core high performance EPYC CPU. They talked about their server CPU's being "feature" unrestricted in a number of areas, almost hinting that they might even be clock unrestricted of course leaving me with some hope that they will be fully unlocked like their Ryzen CPUs that they likened to.

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Loophole35

2017-05-17 02:07

Very interested in the 12/24 part.

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ManofGod

2017-05-17 03:41

Damn, I am not sure if I should feel bad for the people who got the 1800x so soon. I wonder how many will jump to one of these.

Why? Are you saying that you can only own one or the other? Why not have both, if you can afford it?

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RedSquirrel

2017-05-17 03:55

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D3M1G0D

2017-05-17 05:07

Oh man, and I just spent a ton of money on a Ryzen 7 system. Really surprised by the release date - summer is right around the corner, after all. There's also Vega next month to consider. I have to say, this is shaping up to be quite a year for the enthusiasts (shut up, wallet! you're fine)

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Odellot

2017-05-17 05:11

Wow...Now im torn between i9 7920x or threadripper coming from a 6950x..

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Ryu5uzaku

2017-05-17 07:28

Damn, I am not sure if I should feel bad for the people who got the 1800x so soon. I wonder how many will jump to one of these.

I don't exactly need 16 cores atm 😀 also the upcoming setup will cost quite a bit more 🙂

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Fox2232

2017-05-17 07:33

Damn, I am not sure if I should feel bad for the people who got the 1800x so soon. I wonder how many will jump to one of these.

Not gamers. But it will make wonderful workstations.

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varkkon

2017-05-17 08:00

Insane and awesome! Well I just found my next upgrade, that is the CPU I will get next and worship! Coming from an i7 3930K 6/12 this is going to be an epic upgrade. Since I do game development most of the day and do Visual Studio builds probably a hundred times a day if not more this is going to pay off in a day time wise waiting for my game to build. I would love to see Forza Horizon 3 run on this beast with the new CPU patch since it consumes logical cores like crazy. Actually there are a lot of games I like to see how they react in 5760x1080 that I play in. Can't wait. Man I am so juiced up and pumped for this upgrade I can't wait! Awesome news!

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nevcairiel

2017-05-17 10:16

This is where the whole CCX approach pays off for them I guess. These things shouldn't really have much different yields than anything presented up until now, since it's the CCX yields that matter. That 10/20 part will most likely be at around $600 and it looks like the best sweetspot for "enthusiasts". I would also like to see Ryzen performing with quad channel memory.

From an architecture standpoint its true, they can just slap 4 CCX onto one CPU and call it a day. However from a production standpoint, its still one Die, and needs to be created as a whole, not as 4 individual CCX that get put together afterwards - and producing bigger components has typically more problems.

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__hollywood|meo

2017-05-17 12:15

that release date...im drooling...........

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DrHansGruber

2017-05-17 12:32

From an architecture standpoint its true, they can just slap 4 CCX onto one CPU and call it a day. However from a production standpoint, its still one Die, and needs to be created as a whole, not as 4 individual CCX that get put together afterwards - and producing bigger components has typically more problems.

They use 2 CCX on one piece of silicon to make up the Zeppelin die. Then two of those are combined on one chip to make a 16 core and four separate ones for the 32 core variant. Here's a picture of Dr. Su holding up a Naples chip showing four separate dies, courtesy of Tom's Hardware: https://img.purch.com/w/755/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9HL0YvNjc3MTAzL29yaWdpbmFsLzEzLkpQRw== So AMD are most likely producing just a single type of Zeppelin die and binning and combining them to form the entire product line-up.

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Picolete

2017-05-17 13:53

They use 2 CCX on one piece of silicon to make up the Zeppelin die. Then two of those are combined on one chip to make a 16 core and four separate ones for the 32 core variant. Here's a picture of Dr. Su holding up a Naples chip showing four separate dies, courtesy of Tom's Hardware: https://img.purch.com/w/755/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9HL0YvNjc3MTAzL29yaWdpbmFsLzEzLkpQRw== So AMD are most likely producing just a single type of Zeppelin die and binning and combining them to form the entire product line-up.

That should make then really cheap compared to a huge silicon, if they can make this with GPUs it would be great