Threadripper 3 confirmed

[Deleted member 209350]

Prices and specs have been confirmed for 2 Threadripper chips.

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-threadripper-3970x-3960x-specs-prices-launch-confirmed/

24 core and 32 core variants with boosts upto 4.5ghz!!

No announcement yet for 48 or 64 core variants, but I have a feeling they will be coming soon

 

[Deleted member 209350]

The 64 core 3990X has been announced, it's just not available yet.

What the hell.. Has it? Not sure how I ended up missing that, I only seemed to see the 24 and 48 core variants.

But that does leave a lovely nice set of 4 TR chips though, 24, 32, 48 and 64 cores... All at over 4.3ghz clock speeds as well, its almost frightening

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Too expensisive. Not enough benefit over a 750 quid 3950x. Crappy boost clocks. Killed the upgrade path for existing x399 users.

I'm out.

 

[Deleted member 209350]

Too expensisive. Not enough benefit over a 750 quid 3950x. Crappy boost clocks. Killed the upgrade path for existing x399 users.

I'm out.

lol? Crappy boost clocks? How high did you expect chips with a minimum of 24 cores to boost upto then?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Still on the fence - I may or may not buy one as an upgrade to 1950x.

Not really an upgrade though is it - it's a new system as you'll need a new mobo - and TR mobos aren't cheap.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

lol? Crappy boost clocks? How high did you expect chips with a minimum of 24 cores to boost upto then?

At least match the highest boost clocks in the existing Ryzen line - which is 4.7ghz. The 2950x beats the 2700x boost clocks (4.4ghz vs 4.35ghz) and the 2950x has double the cores of the 2700x. TR's have always used cherry picked cores but this time it looks like the cherry picked cores are going in the 3950x. If and when AMD put the best cores back into TR, then maybe I'll come back to the Threadripper camp. For now, I'm looing at what Intel are going to do.

 

[Deleted member 209350]

At least match the highest boost clocks in the existing Ryzen line - which is 4.7ghz. The 2950x beats the 2700x boost clocks (4.4ghz vs 4.35ghz) and the 2950x has double the cores of the 2700x. TR's have always used cherry picked cores but this time it looks like the cherry picked cores are going in the 3950x. If and when AMD put the best cores back into TR, then maybe I'll come back to the Threadripper camp. For now, I'm looing at what Intel are going to do.

Intel in the HEDT space are garbage compared to Threadripper

 

[Deleted member 209350]

It’s a massive upgrade, light years ahead of Intel. The TR40 platform is immense.

Its not even fanboyish to make this statement as its just pure facts. Intel are way way behind for HEDT chips

 

[Deleted member 66701]

It’s a massive upgrade,

But not for existing TR users. My upgrade from 1950x to 2950x was worth it, but the cost/benefit ratio for 2950x to 3960x just isn't there. I think AMD trying to steal a march on Intel have made a mistake in cutting off the x399 upgrade path

 

[Deleted member 66701]

They don't stand a chance, what your multicore need?

I could certainly benefit from 32 maybe even 64 cores, but realistically I was looking at a 24 core upgrade but the cost is beyond what I expected them to come in at and the cost benefit ratio just isn't there.

Las week I a Python program on 8tb of observational data looking for patterns in gesture recognition, took 4 days on my 2950x at 100% usage Ran the next one on the Uni's 128 core Epyc machine - would be nice to be able to do that at home instead as it's a PITA booking machine time when you're looking at conference deadlines.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Yet you said you would look at intel......
uh-huh. good luck with that

No, I said I would look at what Intel do next.

I'll sit out this TR round and see where we are in a year.

 

[Deleted member 209350]

I think I might try and do it you know, If what i'm hearing about potential board pricing of a "taichi" like board is right it might actually not be bad, i'm actually thinking that for the performance on offer that the 3960x might make it worth it for me. Early days but we shall see. I'm still working on @Illuminist to hook me up

its all down to the use case really, for the vast majority of people even 12 or 16 cores is overkill for what they use it for.

Whilst I think in 2019, 8 cores with 8/16gb ram should be the standard - 12/16 cores is still more than what most people will need to use.

Then coming into threadripper talk, the extra cores are only for specialist needs

 

[Deleted member 209350]

Huh, "something took 5 minutes before, with TR3 takes 5 seconds".

Probably not entirely accurate, but you can assume it does make it considerably faster