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Ryzen 5900 or Threadripper Pro 5945?

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WCCFtech have a tease here. The question arises of when you would choose the 12 core Threadripper Pro over the 12 core Ryzen? The cost difference will likely be £1000 for starters.
 
For people that need either the 8-channel memory bandwidth or shedloads of PCIe lanes directly to the CPU but not loads of cores it's a better option then the higher models.

Presumably if it's 280W as well it probably boosts pretty nicely too :D

I believe the 12-core 3000 series Threadripper Pro was OEM only because it does seem to be quite a niche product.
 
If you need something like a TR Pro 12 core over desktop ryzen is when you need a lot of lanes. Multi GPU support, NVMe with no compromise, or need a hell of a lot of RAM.

Can't see how 12 cores and 24 threads will need 8 channels of ram.
 
Surely it depends how much processing is required for whatever and even where it's done, GPU or even pure AI 'accelerator' cards with extremely large datasets could benefit (iirc the Pro limit is 2TB?)

It's kinda interesting that there's no 12-core Threadripper (non-pro), only 24/32/64, whilst Pro drops the 24 in favour of 12 and 16.

As said, real niche product but easy to produce and seemingly at least one OEM wants/wanted it...
 
I'd jump on the Threadripper Pro if I could afford it. Unfortunately it is out of my budget so I'll just stick to standard Threadripper.
 
I've seen a lot of people lamenting the absence of low core count Threadrippers since 2nd gen. They want the platform, not the cores, so boat loads of PCIe lanes, lots of RAM with lots of channels, server-grade connectivity, that sort of thing. Running 7 Teslas or Quadros at full 16x lanes each for rendering or simulation, but not needing 24 CPU cores along with it. That sort of thing.
 
LePhuronn said:
I've seen a lot of people lamenting the absence of low core count Threadrippers since 2nd gen. They want the platform, not the cores, so boat loads of PCIe lanes, lots of RAM with lots of channels, server-grade connectivity, that sort of thing. Running 7 Teslas or Quadros at full 16x lanes each for rendering or simulation, but not needing 24 CPU cores along with it. That sort of thing.
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Plenty of products for that type of system.
 
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