AMD has released more details about its upcoming desktop CPUs:
For starters, it's no longer referred to by the architectural code-name "Zen," or by the desktop-specific implementation "Summit Ridge." Instead, you'll see those first CPUs show up on store shelves under the "Ryzen" brand. (As in, the company's CPU portfolio is reborn, or risen. Think of that what you will. [However, it is pronounced "Rye-zen".]) For now, it's distinct from the FX moniker, which just doesn't have the enthusiast cachet it did 13 years ago.
AMD's Ryzen desktop chips are said to be on par with Intel's extreme/enthusiast chips such as the i7-6900K, for around half the price. The release date is still Q1 2017.
Previously: AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors
(Score: 2, Funny) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday December 14 2016, @11:42PM
There probably is more than that one guy running AMD stuff.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday December 14 2016, @11:43PM
There is probably more than one guy reusing comments, too.
I hurt my hands just typing this reply to your comment.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 15 2016, @12:35AM
At work I have a bunch of intel machines, Most of them are 12 core (24 virtual) and one is 16 core (32 virtual) and they have 128GB of RAM. I think their clocks are 3.4GHz. I have a 6 core Phenom II (2.7GHz) at home, All machines run Linux.
Over the years, the AMD stuff has always scaled better on multithreaded stuff, but my home machine is pretty old. I need to do a speed test. One day at work I was doing some very boring and time-consuming sys admin work and ended up writing some scripts to make use of all the cores and to save time. The virtual cores on the intel Xeons really don't give you a huge boost. It's a few tens of percent IIRC.
I almost bought an "8 core" AMD FX CPU but held off for Zen. This should be interesting.
Many months ago I posted my parallel compression scripts (hastily rewritten from memory) to this very site. I'll see if I can dig them out...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 15 2016, @08:44PM
Google has found them:
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=13199&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=improvedthreaded&pid=334879 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @02:13AM
You should think about using GNU's parallel. It can help speed up a lot of things without having to hack them together yourself so much. For example, your compression script could be shorten using parallel's --pipepart. It can also be used to automatically send commands to remote machines. Check out https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html [gnu.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @07:46AM
Damn. Someone else always spoils the fun! :-) It's not hard to do things on multiple machines ad-hoc with SSH keys and a bit of shell...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @09:08PM
The other thing is those machines are not on the public internet and I was hidden away in a lonely lab with 10s of GB of data to copy about (VM images, OS iso images, etc.). And writing scripts is fun.