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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: 2) by dwilson on Tuesday August 07 2018, @03:02PM (2 children)

    by dwilson (2599) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 07 2018, @03:02PM (#718281) Journal

    Throw in the facts that hard drives last about 5 years

    Where have you been buying your drives? If that's the statistical average than I've been hitting well above it for over a decade. I've still got ten year old 120gb drives in a raid5 array, spinning merrily.

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:43AM (1 child)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:43AM (#718573) Journal

    My older hard drives all still work. It's my newer 1T and 1.5T WD drives that failed early, the green in just 9 months, and the blue in 3 years. For the 3rd drive, got a Fujitsu, and it's been working fine.

    • (Score: 2) by dwilson on Saturday August 11 2018, @03:22AM

      by dwilson (2599) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 11 2018, @03:22AM (#720185) Journal

      Well, that's fair. Of the three drives I've purchased in the past five years (two 1TB and two 2TB), one of the 1TB ones has failed. Well SMART data showed signs of imminent failure, so I replaced it and it's buddy with the 2TB drives and kept the other 1TB as a spare.

      Now you've got me wondering when the 2TB ones are going to pack it in. Thanks!

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