Sunday, May 28th 2023
New Generation of AMD Threadripper "Storm Peak" Mentioned on CPU-Z
CPUID recently released version 2.06 of the globally popular free CPU-Z utility which includes updates to support reporting of a variety of recent or obscure CPU and GPU models. Intel's "Alder Lake-N", AMD's recently released "Dragon Range" mobile Zen 4 processors, Zhoaxin's KH-40000 and KX-6000G, and of course NVIDIA's RTX 4060 Ti as well as AMD's RX 7600. Most interesting of all is a small addition down at the very bottom of the list, "Preliminary support for AMD Storm Peak platform." "Storm Peak" is AMD's yet to be announced Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series which will feature "Zen 4" and hopefully heat up competition in the HEDT market. No detailed specifications or information on SKUs have been released yet with "Storm Peak" expected to receive a proper announcement sometime in Q3 2023. The mention on CPU-Z suggests that the platform is nearing market readiness, and possibly that the folks at CPUID have been seeded samples or specifications to prepare with. Threadripper 7000 is expected to be released on yet another new socket, TR5, and has been rumored to be coming in both HEDT and workstation variants.
Intel brought competition to the HEDT market for the first time in nearly 4 years with the release of their Sapphire Rapids Xeon W range of processors back in February. Xeon W features unlocked SKUs tackling AMD's Threadripper 5000 series from top to bottom; going as high as the 56-core Xeon w9-3495X at a blistering $5,889 USD to as low as ~$1,000 USD for the 12-core Xeon w5-2455X. Intel also interspersed some lower cost locked SKUs to allow system integrators to offer the new platform as workstations to the prosumer market that generally cares little about overclocking. With Intel competing directly with Threadripper again it was expected that it wouldn't be long before AMD would be cooking up a response with their latest and greatest.
Sources:
HotHardware, CPUID
Intel brought competition to the HEDT market for the first time in nearly 4 years with the release of their Sapphire Rapids Xeon W range of processors back in February. Xeon W features unlocked SKUs tackling AMD's Threadripper 5000 series from top to bottom; going as high as the 56-core Xeon w9-3495X at a blistering $5,889 USD to as low as ~$1,000 USD for the 12-core Xeon w5-2455X. Intel also interspersed some lower cost locked SKUs to allow system integrators to offer the new platform as workstations to the prosumer market that generally cares little about overclocking. With Intel competing directly with Threadripper again it was expected that it wouldn't be long before AMD would be cooking up a response with their latest and greatest.
30 Comments on New Generation of AMD Threadripper "Storm Peak" Mentioned on CPU-Z
...can't imagine Intel has anything that could compete with a 96 core Zen4 Threadripper(whether or not AMD will go as high as 96 core in a consumer HEDT platform is another question though, they might top it off at 64 core and then have anything higher on the threadripper "pro" linup), ...only exception would be that Intel can pull out some niche "wins" in specific workloads that use the specific accelerators they've added.
Having the ability to have things like external NICs (10,25,50gb+) multiple GPUs, Multiple NVME drives on top of the inbuilt etc etc etc
I dont actually think most people who went over to the x399 platform originally went for the top end CPUs but actaully went for the ones that were the same core counts as the desktop were capable of.
The chipset on WRX80 is mostly pointless with the number of pci-express lanes your given.
Socket sTRX4 supports quad 64-bit memory channels.
Socket sWRX8 (supports Zen 2 and Zen 3-based SKUs) is also PCIe 4.0 signaling design similar to X570's PCIe 4.0 signaling design.
Socket sWRX8 supports eight 64-bit memory channels.
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Zen 4, Socket AM5(desktop), and Socket SP5 (Epyc) are for PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 generation for AMD platforms.
AMD lied to me and then doubled the price, adding memory channels and PCIE lanes, but still, killing my upgrade path and forcing double the price. Then ignored us as customers.
I know I might not be relevant with my small company, but for the reason AMD did what they did, since then all of my new 57 machines for all my developers were Intel Core.
All of our GPUs (90 units) were Nvidia.
Even if AMD releases a better Threadripper this time, our first purchase of 2024 Q1 budget will be 56-core Xeons. So far it looks to be 5 of those 3990X replaced with 3 more probable. Yes, I am aware they fall into Pro and more expensive bracket and worse performance than the Threadripper 7000.
But I don't care. As small as statement that is, it is one from my perspective. Half a million dollars is not much for AMD, but it will go to Intel's account.
I leave TR for very specific situations (where is a no brainer) which is limited thanks to "small" epycs.
I don't recommend it either and I explain why. I spit some PR bullshit from xeon pro-sellers I get branded workstations and move on.
TR (1,2 and 3...) was a great platform for affordable modular out-of-big-brands workstations, I feel like they killed their own market.