I find it odd that now, in April 2019 someone would say they find CPU's not interesting. Just as we are getting some pretty radically new chip designs in Zen 2, more cores and a move to chiplet design CPU's. You have had 10 years to justifiably say CPU's arent interesting, but now is the time they actually have become interesting,
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The mroe I start to read about CPUs the less I get interested.
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It literally all went wrong from the title, wants top end everything (all the gear, no idea), thinks 5Ghz is a magical number rather than focus on any meaningful measure of actual performance, wants to de-lid, concerned about heat but scared of water and has no grasp of what’s actually going on.
CPU’s have always been exciting, just not always groundbreaking, the massive leaps are when it gets really interesting and Zen for example was a pivotal point in AMD’s history. Zen 2 has a lot of hype, but if it lives up to the core/IPC speculation, then that really could re-define how we look at performance. 8c/16t with Ryzen for desktop processors gave a lot for very little money, 12-16c parts would literally be game changers in the desktop market, personally i’d consolidate 4 systems into one, the power savings alone probably justify the cost over 2 years, let alone the re-sale on existing hardware. The move from ASM chipsets to AMD this time round could also be a major game changer, this is the release cycle where Ryzen hopefully comes of age. If (read when) intel gets 10nm production sorted, I expect a reasonable level of direct competition, something we haven’t seen in a long time - that’s a good thing for everyone. But some people want 5Ghz because 5Ghz
CPU’s have always been exciting, just not always groundbreaking, the massive leaps are when it gets really interesting and Zen for example was a pivotal point in AMD’s history. Zen 2 has a lot of hype, but if it lives up to the core/IPC speculation, then that really could re-define how we look at performance. 8c/16t with Ryzen for desktop processors gave a lot for very little money, 12-16c parts would literally be game changers in the desktop market, personally i’d consolidate 4 systems into one, the power savings alone probably justify the cost over 2 years, let alone the re-sale on existing hardware. The move from ASM chipsets to AMD this time round could also be a major game changer, this is the release cycle where Ryzen hopefully comes of age. If (read when) intel gets 10nm production sorted, I expect a reasonable level of direct competition, something we haven’t seen in a long time - that’s a good thing for everyone. But some people want 5Ghz because 5Ghz
^^ not to mention the entire chiplet + central I/O die concept is a manufacturing game changer. A fully modular approach to CPU package design, amazingly scalable, low(er) cost and high yield that applies to their entire CPU product portfolio.
Even if Zen 2 doesn't batter Intel's Coffee Lake Re-re-refresh, it will enable AMD to be incredibly aggressive with pricing and still make a good chunk of money. Same on HEDT with Threadripper, definitely the same in servers with EPYC Rome.
Even if Zen 2 doesn't batter Intel's Coffee Lake Re-re-refresh, it will enable AMD to be incredibly aggressive with pricing and still make a good chunk of money. Same on HEDT with Threadripper, definitely the same in servers with EPYC Rome.
Scope for the FX 9590 to get a second wave of love? (Did it ever have a first wave?). "AMD suck because they can't do 5GHz". Surely it's Intel that suck because AMD guaranteed 5GHz on a CPU years agoBut some people want 5Ghz because 5Ghz