Monday, November 4th 2024
ASUS Motherboard Manual Shows 3D V-Cache Coming to Threadripper
Just last week, AMD announced the arrival of its upcoming Ryzen 9000 series of CPUs with 3D V-Cache for November 7. However, we might be in for a treat, as AMD could be preparing Threadripper 9000WX/X series of CPUs with 3D V-Cache. According to VideoCardz, the ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE board appears to include an intriguing feature in its settings—there's a configuration option related to 3D V-Cache control, though this setting currently doesn't have any practical application with the available Threadripper 7000WX and 7000X processors. The presence of this setting hasn't been officially documented by ASUS, showing that this feature could indeed end up in future iterations of Threadripper processors, namely the 9000WX/X series.
AMD currently offers 3D V-Cache treatment in its high-end Genoa-X CPUs, with up to 96 cores and 192 threads, and 1,152 MB of L3 cache. These CPUs were praised for their capabilities in the high-performance computing sector, performing calculations at unprecedented rates thanks to the massive cache size and bandwidth. If AMD decides to opt-in for the HEDT market with 3D V-Cache, we might see an appearance with the upcoming Threadripper generation. However, right now, it is only speculation based on undocumented features in ASUS's high-end board. Even if these CPUs are planned, we are not near their launch as the priority is launching and shipping the consumer-oriented Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU on November 7.
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VideoCardz
AMD currently offers 3D V-Cache treatment in its high-end Genoa-X CPUs, with up to 96 cores and 192 threads, and 1,152 MB of L3 cache. These CPUs were praised for their capabilities in the high-performance computing sector, performing calculations at unprecedented rates thanks to the massive cache size and bandwidth. If AMD decides to opt-in for the HEDT market with 3D V-Cache, we might see an appearance with the upcoming Threadripper generation. However, right now, it is only speculation based on undocumented features in ASUS's high-end board. Even if these CPUs are planned, we are not near their launch as the priority is launching and shipping the consumer-oriented Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU on November 7.
11 Comments on ASUS Motherboard Manual Shows 3D V-Cache Coming to Threadripper
That being said, i'm curious for an expert opinion: would the 3D cache help with workstation tasks that these CPUs are normally reserved for (CAD and rendering and the like)? I didn't think 3D cache helped much with non-gaming workloads based on discussion about the 7800/9800X3D.
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There are other areas where the X3D CPU will edge it's non X3D counterpart but not as much as Simulation and in most benchmarks could be within margin of error.
Basically if you can fill the cache of CPU even in 3D rendering it'll still be beneficial. It's faster to read geometry data from L3 cache than from RAM or swap file obviously. So if you have say 2TB of geometry to render it'll be much faster on X EPYC with 1.1 GB of cache than on Threadripper/Pro with 128 MB.