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Rocket Lake S 2-10c and released Q2 of 2021. Takes the biscuit. I hadn't even spotted that gem when I first commented.
Though picking numbers out of a hat doesn't lend credence to a theory either.
I'll be surprised if the 16 core comes that late. I'm expecting a top end CPU and also a great performance/£ gaming part, only based on marketing though rather than knowledge of the process etc. Releasing a top end CPU early may persuade those who don't really need it, to buy one
. 16 core anniversary special? That would be in high demand.Not even remotely. There's more to Threadripper than just the core count. Massive memory capacity, ECC memory support, proper amount of PCIe lanes for arrays of workstation GPUs or solid state RAID, etc.
I long suggested the leaked 16c/32t 3850X would be an anniversary model, essentially a very highly binned 3800X with the mythic 5GHz guaranteed, and then release the actual 3800X later on when the limited run has been allocated (like 8700K and 8086K but in reverse), but it looks like AMD are going with a 2700X and Radeon VII for the anniversary.
As a forum for enthusiasts I’m sure that doesn’t even need stating here.
When you consider the performance of a single decent NVMe drive RAID becomes ever more niche.
20 years in the creative media industry tends to give you an idea
A decade of that was with a production company that specialised in film and video. At the beginning we were fine with single CPU systems as our bread and butter was short corporate pieces outputted to VHS so we never had the time nor budget to push anything crazy, but as the work started ramping in length and complexity our investment in a couple of dual socket Pentium III workstations paid for itself very quickly.Granted, we don't know exactly what X570 will bring, but I can guarantee you it won't be to the same level as HEDT. Will be interesting to see how vendors make use of PCIe 4, which could lead the way to properly implementing multiple NVMe drives at full chat, and that will bring a Threadripper benefit down to the mainstream. But there's no way you're getting 128GB RAM on AM4, and only the super expensive boards will have things like 10Gb ethernet on them (by which time the board cost is pushing into Threadripper territory anyway).
I've worked with many people who have used HEDT platforms for a fairly beefy server setup at a development level to bench scalability of their code before deploying live. It's also very useful to smash a bazillion VMs with every major permutation of your target OSes on a single physical machine. Hell, for years even my web stuff had to support back as far as IE6 and I sure as hell aren't having 10 dev boxes in my studio! Fire up multiple instances of Windows from XP and up across VMs and you still need a bit of grunt.
I see the misunderstanding.
What does it have to do with AMD? Intel have had a process lead for their entire existence, yet the slide suggests a process they were supposed to be using in shipped parts in 2016 now might not be ready until 2022. That is embarrassing regardless of anything AMD is doing.
