Friday, March 24th 2017
AMD's Rumoured Upcoming 16-core Part to Reportedly Run at 3.1/3.6 GHz
Some rumors and whispers have been making the rounds lately, regarding a HEDT platform incoming from AMD. This platform (built upon a new X399 chipset planned exclusively for it) would use a cut-down version of the Naples-based server SP3 socket called SP3r2. SP3r2 and the new chip will reportedly offer quad channel memory support, pitting them directly in competition with Intel's HEDT lineup in terms of memory bandwidth.
Reportedly, engineering samples of the 180W 16-core Ryzen currently run at 3.1 GHz Base, 3.6 GHz Boost clocks, which leads towards performance in the level of two Ryzen 7 1700 chips. If the rumors are true and such a platform is in development, then we will surely hear of some more chips designed for it. Going through the trouble of creating a new chipset and platform for a single CPU model doesn't seem likely. Perhaps some 12-core and 20-core chips are lurking just below the surface?
Reportedly, engineering samples of the 180W 16-core Ryzen currently run at 3.1 GHz Base, 3.6 GHz Boost clocks, which leads towards performance in the level of two Ryzen 7 1700 chips. If the rumors are true and such a platform is in development, then we will surely hear of some more chips designed for it. Going through the trouble of creating a new chipset and platform for a single CPU model doesn't seem likely. Perhaps some 12-core and 20-core chips are lurking just below the surface?
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As far as I know, E5-2699v4 is rated at 150w tdp with 22cores @ 2.2ghz (turbo 3.5ghz or something. I don't know all core turbo but I reckon it should be at 2.7ghz at all core turbo.).
The half Naples chip should come close to 2699v4 at probably 2k price tag.
P.S. 2699v4 ES is available at 1k which is still way out of my league.
Really wanted to get A new Ryzen rig for VMs ect ect .. but from what I have read on the RAM support just nixes what I want to do.
Hell even Skylake-X will get curb-stomped by this. I wonder if Intel could even release something to compete. All of there Xeon's are clocked lower, and if they tried to compete it might be a 200w+ chip...
Now it seems, AMD is gonna have chips to cover the entire product stack for the Mac Pro so it seems more likely that one of the biggest user bases for content creation, Mac Pro users, could be making the shift from Intel to AMD courtesy of Apple.
And then we have announced Ryzen microcode update in May aimed at improving memspeeds maybe up to 4500.
Edit: So having had a better look, it looks like a rough draft of an Asus board, as it has a TPU, EPU, Aura and LanGuard, all Asus proprietary things.
I also don't understand why a new board like this would be equipped with FireWire, does anyone still use that? Note that a lot of things are seemingly just suggestions of what could go in the slots and the x8 slots are shared with the x16 slots.
Source: www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/618blp/x399_and_x390_leak/
It's still better to go after Xeon on Ebay.
1800x was a major dissapointment under air/water...
so hope this time they can do it right and I buy it!