Threadripper on Zen+ 32 Cores - Launching Q3 2018

humbug · 18 Jun 2018 at 17:40

Orcvader said:
US only but: https://www.amd.com/en/campaigns/threadripper-exchange

Exchange that 8086K for a 1950X . I guess that's one way of clearing stock to make way for TR2.

Limited to 40 but yeah, thats a #### take, a rather good one

AiiR · 18 Jun 2018 at 18:27

Orcvader said:
US only but: https://www.amd.com/en/campaigns/threadripper-exchange

Exchange that 8086K for a 1950X . I guess that's one way of clearing stock to make way for TR2.

Hilarious, and actually a pretty good deal. Although you then need to spend a bit extra for a motherboard!

sideways14a · 18 Jun 2018 at 18:52

LMAO, at last marketing at AMD is awake.

NinjaCool · 18 Jun 2018 at 18:57

Did you just say AMD can turn the 8086K into an 1950X! :eek:

Troezar · 18 Jun 2018 at 19:12

sideways14a said:
LMAO, at last marketing at AMD is awake.

Took them long enough, nice to see a bit of humour in a sometimes stale industry. Let's see what Intel's counter offer is...we'll see your 1950X and raise you a motherboard too

sideways14a · 18 Jun 2018 at 19:15

Lol Amd can turn 6 into 16, amazebaws.

jigger · 19 Jun 2018 at 12:05

sideways14a said:
Lol Amd can turn 6 into 16, amazebaws.

It's the glue they use

DarrenM343 · 19 Jun 2018 at 13:01

Journey said:
Looks like the Threadripper prices are starting to move down to make way for these 24/32C beasts, 1950X's at <£600, that is staggeringly good value for a CPU with that core count.

<£600 is a great price for what is a real slab of a CPU

. I'll be keeping mine a long time in the workstation and when I've finished with it someday I might just frame it and stick in on the wall in the man cave. I just hope I'm not tempted by TR2

. I have a suspicion the rumoured 2800X will be used in the top end TR2's.

humbug · 19 Jun 2018 at 13:12

If the 2800X isn't coming in the next couple of months i have a feeling the 2800X will be the CPU launched to break in 7nm.

DragonQ · 19 Jun 2018 at 14:18

Rainmaker said:
The 1900x is cheaper now than the 1800x was. Yes it's 'only' the 8/16 but you still get quad channel memory and the extra PCIe lanes. I'm actually seriously considering selling my 8Pack delid (does 5GHz all cores and 5GHz cache/ring with no AVX offset, 1.35v) to get one of the new TR CPUs later this year. I was in two minds when CL and Zen came out, but the TR would suit my workload more really, especially now the IPC and speeds are closing up.

I seem to remember Threadripper chips not being good for gaming because of their die configuration. Is a Threadripper 1950X two dies with one CCX each, or a single die with two CCXs like an R7 1800X?

Vince · 19 Jun 2018 at 14:50

DragonQ said:
I seem to remember Threadripper chips not being good for gaming because of their die configuration. Is a Threadripper 1950X two dies with one CCX each, or a single die with two CCXs like an R7 1800X?

It's fine, I run all my games stock (16 core 32 thread) with distributed (UMA) memory and it's never caused me an issue. I run my cpu at 3.7 base with xfr which boosts around 4 cores up to around 4.3 and it just does what it does. To be honest I am not one to try and eek every last frame but I've never once been disappointing with its gaming performance.

Also it's two active dies on 1950x.

Rainmaker · 19 Jun 2018 at 14:58

DragonQ said:
I seem to remember Threadripper chips not being good for gaming because of their die configuration. Is a Threadripper 1950X two dies with one CCX each, or a single die with two CCXs like an R7 1800X?

I don't game, so it's neither here nor there to me. I'm interested in VMs, transcoding and playing with high end network stuff mostly.

BongoHunter · 19 Jun 2018 at 15:02

Same as above for me - 1950X with a GTX 1070 is fine for gaming. It's probably not such a good choice of your into benchmarking.

I think TR is a good choice if your running a lot of VM's but dont want to have to have a separate server, I can be running a dozen VM's in the background and doesn't really seem to impact running games at all

DarrenM343 · 19 Jun 2018 at 15:53

Used a TXP before in a 6700K and then the 1950 X and although it was only a few games and benches, there was hardly anything in it at 1440P, a few FPS win only for the 6700K.

Had a bit of a play at the weekend and found running FarCry 5 and using Sli (two 1070 Ti's) there's actually a decent bump to be had by switching the CPU profile to Game mode, an improvement of about 12%. Using a single card there was only a small difference in Gaming mode vs Creator mode. I didn't really come to a conclusion and was just the one game. In either mode the Sli cards were scaling worse than I expected in the game (only 22% when run in Gaming mode). Out of interest I ran TimeSpy in Creator Mode and both GPU's were fully utilised for most of the GPU side of the bench and the score was over double vs a single card, so nothing wrong with the CPU being able to drive the two GPU's.

If I get time I'd like to try both the 1070 Ti's in the 6700K system and compare single vs sli. I think there wont be much in it at 1440P when using a single card but would be interesting to see if FC5 performance scales better with Sli in the Intel system in actual games rather than a benchmark.

SupraWez · 19 Jun 2018 at 19:22

Orcvader said:
US only but: https://www.amd.com/en/campaigns/threadripper-exchange

Exchange that 8086K for a 1950X . I guess that's one way of clearing stock to make way for TR2.

Ha ha ha that`s brilliant

sideways14a · 19 Jun 2018 at 19:26

So 4.2 on xfr and already 4.1 all core overclocks on this thing - apparently -
Yikes, it shifts.

4K8KW10 · 19 Jun 2018 at 22:33

The top thing is a Ryzen Threadripper 2990X :eek:

Say welcome to it

screen shot windows
https://www.techpowerup.com/245301/...of-amd-ryzen-threadripper-32-core-cpu-surface

Zeed · 19 Jun 2018 at 22:34

Journey · 19 Jun 2018 at 22:44

Well I am really hoping that they do a 2950X, not just the 2970X, and 2990X. It does look great though, almost as fast a 10x 3770's or 7.75x 4770K's

BongoHunter · 19 Jun 2018 at 22:58

From the reddit post with the details it looks like the 16 core, 24 core and 32 core are the only planned SKUs - which makes sense I suppose - surprising high boost on the 32c part:

Threadripper 2990X

32C/64T

12nm LP (GF)

TDP 250W

TR4 socket

Cache: 3MB L1, 16MB L2, 64MB L3

Freq: Base 3GHz, All Core Underload 3.4GHz, Precision Boost 4GHz, XFR Boost 4.2GHz

OC: Corsair H150i Pro AIO, 1.38v, 4.12GHz, Cinebench R15 score 6399

Planned SKUs: 2950X (16C), 2970X (24C).

Translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh&tl=en&u=https://www.hkepc.com/16912/

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/8salch/amd_ryzen_threadripper_2990x_32c64t_cpu_spec/