AMD Previews Naples - The 32-core Server Processor with 8 channel memory

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Embra

2017-03-07 20:14

The money chip. 🙂 $$

#5403282

Amx85

2017-03-07 20:28

Server CPU King xD

#5403283

DLD

2017-03-07 20:29

Bravo AMD!

#5403307

rl66

2017-03-07 20:58

it sound interesting as always with AMD but if the company stay on the same way than for previous one (lot of anouncement, but nearly none aviable even after 6 month after the launch, inexisting support (it's a Pro CPU !!! we expect more than for CPU for playing game!!!) then good luck... Intel will still rule pro segment. the ball is in AMD's hands... but isn't sure they will get the point here.

#5403309

schmidtbag

2017-03-07 21:02

Seeing how good Ryzen is for professional-grade tasks, I'm sure Naples will be a massive threat to Intel. The Opteron 6300 series was pretty competitive for their time and was hundreds of dollars cheaper than the competing Intel. Naples is competing with CPUs that will likely be thousands of dollars more expensive. Saving over $1000 per CPU is a big deal for companies.

it sound interesting as always with AMD but if the company stay on the same way than for previous one (lot of anouncement, but nearly none aviable even after 6 month after the launch, inexisting support (it's a Pro CPU !!! we expect more than for CPU for playing game!!!) then good luck... Intel will still rule pro segment.

I got the impression the Opterons weren't really that high in demand. By the time the good ones were released, ARM and GPU-based servers were getting pretty popular. Unlike Xeon, there weren't many (if any) socket G34 Opterons meant for workstations (so, I don't really understand your whole "CPU for playing game" thing).

#5403311

arakisb

2017-03-07 21:04

Amazing specs. Ryzen keeps getting better. Thanks lisa su'per' and AMD.

#5403313

Noisiv

2017-03-07 21:05

This is the real deal! Not that great for benchmarks, good-enough for gaming Raisin 😀

Naples is competing with CPUs that will likely be thousands of dollars more expensive. Saving over $1000 per CPU is a big deal for companies.

nope. not even close

#5403317

schmidtbag

2017-03-07 21:08

nope. not even close

And you know this because.....? Intel has 16c/32t Xeons that are priced at over $3000 a piece. Their prices get much, MUCH higher for every core you add.

#5403336

BLEH!

2017-03-07 21:51

Can I get this in a workstation, please?

#5403356

H83

2017-03-07 22:30

And you know this because.....? Intel has 16c/32t Xeons that are priced at over $3000 a piece. Their prices get much, MUCH higher for every core you add.

Noisiv might be correct. From what i understand, companies that buy this kind of hardware are more concerned with other metrics like pure performance, performance/watt, energy consumption and software licenses costs. This doens´t mean that the actual cpu being cheaper than the ones from Intel doesn´t matter because it does. It just means that companies are more worried with other things. But the important thing is that Naples seems good enough for AMD to gain some server market, something that AMD really needs because of the huge margins of server cpus.

#5403370

Kaarme

2017-03-07 23:13

Those rows of ram modules look ridiculous. But I guess that's what it takes to have so many channels and so much capacity.

#5403374

Aura89

2017-03-07 23:21

But people will complain that it's not as good as the i7 7700k because it'll be a lower hz, so why not just get a 7700k for your server.

#5403377

Clouseau

2017-03-07 23:26

That is still a memory channel per four cores. So do we need to wait for a 16 core chip to get quad channel?

#5403382

wavetrex

2017-03-07 23:40

Dang that would be a really sweet Ultra-HD video encoding machine ! And those 32 ram sticks !!! Awwwsum!

#5403404

Lane

2017-03-08 00:15

Seeing how good Ryzen is for professional-grade tasks, I'm sure Naples will be a massive threat to Intel. The Opteron 6300 series was pretty competitive for their time and was hundreds of dollars cheaper than the competing Intel. Naples is competing with CPUs that will likely be thousands of dollars more expensive. Saving over $1000 per CPU is a big deal for companies. I got the impression the Opterons weren't really that high in demand. By the time the good ones were released, ARM and GPU-based servers were getting pretty popular. Unlike Xeon, there weren't many (if any) socket G34 Opterons meant for workstations (so, I don't really understand your whole "CPU for playing game" thing).

ARM server really ? i only know some attempt to it and now it is completely on a break, ( well not really a break, they are a tons of small company who announces things here and there, and on the end,, nothing ).... some company as X-gene... but seriously outside there announces.. In reality i ask me if they even sold enough systems for "start" to enter the market.

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Alessio1989

2017-03-08 00:21

Give me Opteron for desktop-WS Q____Q

#5403413

Lane

2017-03-08 00:24

Give me Opteron for desktop-WS Q____Q

1U rack have been announced at the same time .. for WS... But for "desktop AM4".. i fear that compatibility will be an issue.

#5403427

MM10X

2017-03-08 01:03

Those rows of ram modules look ridiculous. But I guess that's what it takes to have so many channels and so much capacity.

This is a common configuration for enterprise hardware. We have some servers here with 24 slots all in a row. One word, virtualization.

#5403429

Turanis

2017-03-08 01:09

Power,Unlimited Power! Preview of “Naples” Server CPU This is the architecture we need on every server & workstation: SoC. Waiting for another SoC: Qualcomm 48 core Centriq 2400 server. [Spoiler]https://img.purch.com/o/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9MLzAvNjU3ODI4L29yaWdpbmFsL3NpbmdsZS1wcm9jLkpQRw==[/Spoiler]

#5403435

Kanuki

2017-03-08 01:40

I don't know why I keep on reading it 'Nipple'.