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Shares of AMD rose 11.6% on Tuesday as Fudzilla reported that Intel would license graphics technologies from AMD after a similar deal with Nvidia expired two months earlier. The deal has not been confirmed.
On the other hand, AMD's 16-core "Threadripper" enthusiast/HEDT CPUs have been confirmed:
With one of the gnarliest CPU codenames we've ever seen, the Threadripper multicore monsters will go head to head with Intel's Broadwell-E and upcoming Skylake-E High-End Desktop (HEDT) CPUs alongside a new motherboard platform that promises expanded memory support and I/O bandwidth. That's likely to take the form of quad-channel RAM and more PCIe lanes, similar to Intel's X99 platform, but AMD is saving further details for its press conference at Computex at the end of May.
AMD's 32-core "Naples" server chips are now known as... "Epyc".
You have seen the launch of 4, 6, and 8-core AMD Ryzen parts. How do you feel about 10, 12, 14, and 16 cores (prices unknown, likely $1,000 or more for 16 cores)?
Previously: CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship"
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 18 2017, @12:27PM (3 children)
Ok, but the story is about Ryzen 9 which probably has lower clock speeds than Ryzen 7 while costing twice as much. For example, Ryzen 7 1800X at 3.6 GHz (base) for $500, Ryzen 9 1998X at 3.5 GHz for $1000+. So if you can't make use of the additional 8 cores/16 threads, it is less than half the performance per dollar.
All of the Phenom II X4 chips have 4 cores, so the comparable Ryzens would be Ryzen 5 1500X ($189), Ryzen 5 1400 ($169), some other unreleased Ryzen 5 chips, or the upcoming Ryzen 3 1200X, Ryzen 3 Pro 1200, Ryzen 3 1100, and Ryzen 3 Pro 1100 [wccftech.com]. The Ryzen 3 chips will have only one thread per core, same as the Phenom II chips.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 18 2017, @07:31PM (2 children)
My workloads stretch to 8 threads each, with single-threaded performance and memory bandwidth being critical. Hyperthreading isn't bad, but it's not perfect.
I need >9 cores (one for the OS) and a metric ton of cache.
If running the $1000 chip saves me 15 minutes every time a job is queued, it pays for itself in less than a quarter (I wish my boss would finally understand that).
Xeon 10+ cores chips, with their insane pricetags, ECC I don't care about, and slower clocks, don't have the same ROI. The "Enthusiast" market is the sweet spot for a lot of people.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 18 2017, @08:15PM
All of the Ryzen CPUs have ECC support. Even the cheapest one I can find, Ryzen 3 1100. Some here would not touch it if it did not have ECC support.
Ryzen 9 1955X and Ryzen 9 1955 are supposedly the chips with 10 cores. 1955 supposedly runs at 3.1/3.7 GHz and 1955X at 3.6/4.0 GHz. The price should be well under $1000.
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday May 21 2017, @06:09AM
It sounds like what you want is "threadripper" the new AMD chip, 16 cores and 32 threads with a reported MSRP of $1000. If you can really slam that many cores? Sounds like the chip for you.
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