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***** HAIL THE KING: AMD GEN3 THREAD RIPPER!!! *****

Zeed said:
Ye but seems he gotten it as GAMING platform not Work + Gaming.
I gotta be honest and if i was to buy a rig id buy 9900ks one. As I do Gaming + some video stuff that i get no money from and my video editing software cant even make use from more than 8 cores anyway. So Intel would be faster as it loves clockspeed.
As Long as You make money from using the platform I see this as an fantastic good product. Thats why My will upgrade hes TR1 build. Ge makes money on it and games.
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I don't really make money from my machine use but I do use it extensively for my Ph.D - if I wasn't using Threadripper, I could pretty much guarantee some my my data runs wouldn't have been completed in time (one run took 6 days!) and I would have missed some of my conference deadlines. the 3960x with improved multicore performance and no gaming penalties is ideal for me (just need to convince the Uni to pay for it like they did with my 2950x :eek:).
 
LePhuronn said:
And even then you'd probably see a bigger gaming performance boost in getting a 3700X and putting the £300 saved towards a bigger GPU.
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I'm waiting for 3080ti at this stage. Just cant force myself to upgrade watercooled pascal titan with what is on the market again... It's longes I'w ever had a GPU !!!
I got money just waiting for something to get !!!! If i ahd option id buy 9900ks + 3080ti and slam both under my loop. Saving money is not somethign i plan to do cause i spend em on even less useless stuff like got this temptation of buying carbon bonnet thats a grand FOR LOOKS :D

But as I said for 99% of people 3900x is overkill 3950 will last them years.. And new TR is just great if you actually need cores.
 
amigafan2003 said:
I don't really make money from my machine use but I do use it extensively for my Ph.D - if I wasn't using Threadripper, I could pretty much guarantee some my my data runs wouldn't have been completed in time (one run took 6 days!) and I would have missed some of my conference deadlines. the 3960x with improved multicore performance and no gaming penalties is ideal for me (just need to convince the Uni to pay for it like they did with my 2950x :eek:).
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If your uni can pay for that, you are one lucky man! May as well take it a step further and wait for the 48 or 64 core variant :D:D
 
Praz94 said:
If your uni can pay for that, you are one lucky man! May as well take it a step further and wait for the 48 or 64 core variant :D:D
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They def won't pay for that - the 3960x is already pushing it - they've already bough me a Quest this year!
 
amigafan2003 said:
I don't really make money from my machine use but I do use it extensively for my Ph.D - if I wasn't using Threadripper, I could pretty much guarantee some my my data runs wouldn't have been completed in time (one run took 6 days!) and I would have missed some of my conference deadlines. the 3960x with improved multicore performance and no gaming penalties is ideal for me (just need to convince the Uni to pay for it like they did with my 2950x :eek:).
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You might page @GIGA-Man and AMD for academic pricing. I thought there was an AMD representative on the forum (AMD_Matt?) but he seems to have been promoted.
 
Quartz said:
You might page @GIGA-Man and AMD for academic pricing. I thought there was an AMD representative on the forum (AMD_Matt?) but he seems to have been promoted.
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Might be tricky as I pay then claim it back.

If @GIGA-Man is interested though my Ph.D is In Immersive Technologies:Integrated Delivery of Education and I'd be quite happy to include any sponsors on any of my published papers :D:D:D:D:D
 
amigafan2003 said:
They def won't pay for that - the 3960x is already pushing it - they've already bough me a Quest this year!
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Man say its life death situation :D you need upgrade YESTERDAY ;)
@Quartz i mined 1500 quid with it :] paid my 3900x upgrade with it and got money for next one waiting :D
 
actually would a 8 to 16 core thread ripper 3 be a great gaming chip? hopefully eek out a few more mhz oc/boost, and quad channel too, and be cheaper.
 
pingu666 said:
actually would a 8 to 16 core thread ripper 3 be a great gaming chip? hopefully eek out a few more mhz oc/boost, and quad channel too, and be cheaper.
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Highly doubtful. The reason the Threadrippers have a bit more performance in them is because of the binning and the massive TDP increase over AM4, i.e. better chiplets given much more thermal headroom.

A 16 core Threadripper would involve 4 quad core chiplets, which arguably is heading into junk silicon territory or the chiplet would be better served heading into an Athlon or similar. An 8 core Threadripper would require 4 dual core chiplets and they're definitely more profitable in a low-end Athlon. Also I doubt quad channel memory would overcome the latency deficit bouncing data around 4 chiplets.
 
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LePhuronn said:
Highly doubtful. The reason the Threadrippers have a bit more performance in them is because of the binning and the massive TDP increase over AM4, i.e. better chiplets given much more thermal headroom.

A 16 core Threadripper would involve 4 quad core chiplets, which arguably is heading into junk silicon territory or the chiplet would be better served heading into an Athlon or similar. An 8 core Threadripper would require 8 dual core chiplets and they're definitely more profitable in a low-end Athlon. Also I doubt quad channel memory would overcome the latency deficit bouncing data around 4 chiplets.
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Thats the problem with the chiplet approach that said future designs will over come this problem not just on cpu`s but future gpu`s also.
 
shamus21 said:
Thats the problem with the chiplet approach that said future designs will over come this problem not just on cpu`s but future gpu`s also.
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I'm sorry, what's the "problem" with the chiplet design? The latency thing? I only mentioned it as a point of comparison between 4 dual core chiplets vs 1 8 core chiplet. It's not actually a problem otherwise.
 
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