AMD THREADRIPPER VS INTEL SKYLAKE X

faceman123 · 1 Jun 2017 at 09:25

I'm so excited with all the recent announcement from team red and blue. I'm currently leaning towards AMD purely from a price point view. I also appreciate the 64 pci lanes. which will you guys be getting and why?

faceman123 · 4 Jun 2017 at 13:08

a interesting watch

faceman123 · 4 Jun 2017 at 13:25

I love the 64 PCI-E lanes on offer by AMD. If all goes well I will be upgrading to x399 and ideally drop in a new CPU if AMD sticks with this socket. I wonder how this will impact the used market - Ryzen/x99 after the release - Good times ahead for everyone I guess. AMD have moved us on from the curse of the Quads.

any news on pricing?

faceman123 · 4 Jun 2017 at 19:58

drunkenmaster said:
News today that, as could have been seen by anyone seeing the lack of details on the 18/16/14 core Skylake-X, they aren't coming till at least next year and that will be the 18 core with the 16/14 core to follow some time behind that. So they've announced it as if they were launching soon purely to try and crap on Threadripper launch. They've panicked, attached the next tier Xeon info to the more real launch of info for the 12 core and lower chips. Kabylake-x, I still can't explain, it's so bad it's painful.

if this is true then.....

faceman123 · 8 Jun 2017 at 10:48

64 PCI lanes, Quad SLI and raid 0 m.2 yes please!!, I hope Zen 2 is something crazy like a 32 core processor on the same socket. Competition is fantastic!!

does anyone know if AMD EPYC server cpu's use the same sockey as threadripper? if so they already have 64 cores

faceman123 · 8 Jun 2017 at 11:30

pretty crazy if you think mainstream cpu's have been quads since 2007 ( ten years) just shows what a little competition can do! literally been a mater of months

faceman123 · 9 Jun 2017 at 10:03

what core count will everyone be going for?, given that AND won't be gimping pci lanes. I'm looking at cheapest 16 core/ 14 core

faceman123 · 9 Jun 2017 at 14:07

elrasho said:
I see, didn't want to come off as trolling or anything I'm just not 100% clued up with AMDs CPU line. I see the benefits now, would an increase of PCIE lanes help with graphics cards?

most likely, ie - if you have crossifre/sli you'll be using atleast 32 lanes, with the arrival of m.2 and other PCI-E cards/ return of tri sli, most likely. I can only see the rise of 4k/8k making pci-e lanes more important

faceman123 · 9 Jun 2017 at 14:08

pretty ridiculous Intel have removed PCI-E lanes from their new 10 core

faceman123 · 10 Jun 2017 at 16:37

good times in the cpu market curious what speeds coffelake will introduce

faceman123 · 10 Jun 2017 at 16:43

zornyan said:
I would expect 5ghz on all cores, since the 10 core skylake x can do that, there's no reason to think their newer cpu, on a more refined process can't do 5ghz.

I wonder what price point this will arrive at; it will essentially replace 7700k and compete with 1600, I see AMD dropping 8 core prices and possibly see a 10 core for about 450-500

faceman123 · 10 Jun 2017 at 18:41

when is the official release date for thread ripper?

faceman123 · 10 Jun 2017 at 18:49

good review

- Quote " On release day, the i7 was wiping the floor with Ryzen in gaming. Many optimizations later, the AM4 platform is coming onto its own. The gaming differences are negligible now. AMD did a great job this time around. "

faceman123 · 10 Jun 2017 at 20:23

anyone know how i can add a Poll to this thread?

faceman123 · 12 Jun 2017 at 11:10

essentially DLC for physical hardware - disgusting practices introduced by intel. another reason to boycott them. AMD maybe 5-10fps slower in gaming but the price to performance ratio more than compensate. even intel fan boys should be grateful for the release of threadripper ryzen

faceman123 · 12 Jun 2017 at 20:38

i wonder how many generations AM4/THREADRIPPER and x299 will last. i see Intel making major adjustments to their roadmap

faceman123 · 12 Jun 2017 at 20:41

Can someone please provide up to date Benchmarks, i Wonder what impact the quad channel memory + larger cache will play in threadripper. Any news on how it clocks? >.> looks at 8 pack

faceman123 · 13 Jun 2017 at 23:58

where's AMDMATT at he now has a reason to come out of hidding, AMD MATT give release some info!

faceman123 · 14 Jun 2017 at 00:02

so points to summarise

AMD
LOWER TAP
16 CORES POTENTIALLY RISING TO 32
-7% LOWER FPS
MORE PCI E LANES ( TRI SLI AND NVME NO ISSUES)

HALF THE PRICE OF INTEL
SLOT SUPPORT TILL ATLEAST 2020

INTEL
$$$$$$ ALL ABOUT THOSE DOLLARS
DLC $$$ FOR YA DOLLAS
LESS PCI LANES
GET READY FOR MORE QUADS ON X299
FASTER MEMORY SUPPORT
MORE FPS +7%
HIGHER TDP

faceman123 · 14 Jun 2017 at 18:51

AMD have esstentially rocked the cpu market. great news for intel fan boys, AMD have brung 8 core cpus to mainstream. only a while ago Intel's top processor was the 5960x. Im looking beyond the fps, its about the ethics and horriblr practices intel have got away with. #nomorequads