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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 07 2018, @01:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the when-does-the-seamripper-go-on-sale dept.

AMD's Threadripper 2 TR 2990WX will be available for retail on August 13. The CPU has 32 cores and the suggested retail price is $1,799, compared to $1,999 for Intel's 18-core i9-7980XE. A 24-core TR 2970WX will be available in October for $1,299.

The 16-core TR 2950X ($899, August 31) and 12-core TR 2920X ($649, October) replace their counterparts from the last generation of Threadripper CPUs, but have slightly improved "12nm" Zen+ cores like the other Threadripper 2 CPUs. The 16 and 12-core chips use 2 dies while the 24 and 32-core versions use 4 dies.

A benchmark leak shows the 32-core TR 2990WX outperforming Intel's 18-core i9-7980XE by 53% in the multithreaded Cinebench R15 (this is an early result, may not represent the final performance, and may be overly favorable to AMD).

Also at Tom's Hardware and Engadget.

Related: First Two AMD Threadripper Chips Out on Aug. 10, New 8-Core Version on Aug. 31
Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores
AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday August 07 2018, @04:27AM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday August 07 2018, @04:27AM (#718105) Journal

    You're thinking of Intel. AMD Ryzen and Threadripper both support ECC.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 07 2018, @08:16AM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday August 07 2018, @08:16AM (#718154)

    ... and the ECC-capable motherboards probably command a pretty significant premium for the privilege.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by MrNemesis on Tuesday August 07 2018, @02:09PM

      by MrNemesis (1582) on Tuesday August 07 2018, @02:09PM (#718247)

      Not that I've seen so far, although the only manufacturer I've seen who explicitly says ECC on all of their zen boards is supported is ASRock (although my info could be out of date), and those don't command any sort of price premium I'm aware of. The Zen memory controller explicitly supports ECC, so all that's needed on the motherboard side is a) ensure the few extra memory traces are there for ECC to function and b) BIOS support for enabling it. Lots of people have posted output from EDAC showing ECC functional on linux systems.

      Bear in mind that Zen only supports ECC UDIMMs (unbuffered) rather than the more common RDIMMs (registered), and the Raven Ridge APUs don't support ECC memory at all (the Raven Ridge Pro APUs do, but are impossible to buy at retail).

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