AMD Outlines Ryzen Threadripper PRO Performance Advantages in Workstation Environments

[T0@st]

I've had the privilege of leading the MNC at AMD for the past five years. In this role, I work with Dell, HP, Lenovo, Supermicro, and other leading workstation manufacturers to develop, market, and sell workstations using AMD Ryzen PRO and AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors. In this brief time, we've seen over 25 customers develop AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor-powered workstations that are transforming the capabilities of premium workstations. Many of you who have followed our journey already know that AMD Threadripper PRO CPU delivers up to an industry-leading 96-cores per processor. However, many of you may not have heard that every AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000WX-Series processor model offers single-threaded frequencies of over 5 GHz, delivering a no-compromise architecture for lightly threaded and multithreaded applications.

Another secret of AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors is that they enable GPU-centric workloads to run faster. When pairing the same professional graphics card with AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO vs. the competition's processor, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO CPU delivers up to 38% faster graphics performance, up to 29% faster GPU compute performance, and up to 29% faster GPU AI performance. Finally, one unique thing that AMD does is collaborate with leading workstation software manufacturers to optimize their software for the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO architecture. These include 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Inventor, and Maya covering media and entertainment, design, engineering, and manufacturing.




Finally, one unique thing that AMD does is collaborate with leading workstation software manufacturers to optimize their software for the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO architecture. These include 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Inventor, and Maya covering media and entertainment, design, engineering, and manufacturing. IDC recently published a whitepaper that speaks to both unique challenges of the workstation market and the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO Series processors' success within the space.

In the report, titled "The Most Intensive of Workloads Call for Workstations," author Linn Huang notes that AMD has expanded its workstation portfolio at the same time it claimed a larger share of the market overall.

He writes: "AMD processors have the largest shipment volume in the premium 12 core and higher workstation segment in the combined years 2022 and 2023, according to IDC's Quarterly Worldwide Workstation Tracker."

The paper discusses the experience various customers have had with AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors and the degree to which these new workstations differed from the systems they had before. According to Jon Carr, technical director at Respawn Entertainment for the video game Jedi Survivor: "the boon to development that AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors had for us honestly can't be overstated. It's very empowering to our team and the whole entire project. And that uplift can be felt across the entire development cycle."

The report goes on to discuss how the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor was vital to Pixomondo's work on Star Trek: Discovery and its impact in academic settings as well. It's worth checking out if you want more information on how artists, programmers, and educators deploy AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO CPUs for a wide range of mission-critical tasks.

Respawn Entertainment and Pixomondo are among the 70 customers that have collaborated with AMD to tell their Customer Success Stories. In my brief time leading the team, I've had the opportunity to work with award-winning visual effects developers, game developers, automotive manufacturers, architects, and health care innovators to participate in their journeys and tell their stories.

As much as our customers love AMD technology, the reason that they keep coming back to refresh to newer workstations and processors is the productivity gains that AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor-powered workstations deliver. When our customers are running high performance workstation workloads like rendering, light baking, manufacturing simulation, or software compilation, the productivity gains are dramatic. In as little as 33 minutes, an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor-powered workstation can do the work that takes a competitor's processor a full hour, nearly doubling user productivity.

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[Daven]

There's a typo in the headline: 'peformance' should be 'performance'.

 

[vantila]

Oh this is too much... They have completely abandoned "workstation enviroments" in terms of gpus! What do they offer againts 5090? Nothing! If you're a game dev, vfx artist, digital artist in general what choice do you have other than Nvidia? When it comes to overall gpu market Nvidia practically sort of have a monopoly. But when it comes to 90 series hardware Nvidia have absolute literal monopoly.

It's all half baked. Examples: They have developer support blogs which are not as good as Nvidia blog posts. They on paper have a render engine project called "Pro Render", one AMD dude is assigned to project. One valiant AMD dev who posts updates on github. It's not good. Why would I use Pro Renderer when I can have Unreal Path Tracer/Karma/Renderman/Octane etc. Renderer is not the point, it's just one example. Are they really interested in competing in GPU space? Here is a crazy idea, maybe, just maybe, if they want bigger GPU market share, they should focus on getting the game devs on board. If game devs are mainly using AMD and not just for support and bug testing, they can more efficiently get gamers on board too.

 

[Caring1]

"Finally, one unique thing that AMD does is collaborate with leading workstation software manufacturers to optimize their software for the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO architecture. These include 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Inventor, and Maya covering media and entertainment, design, engineering, and manufacturing."
Was repeated below the first pictures also.

 

[igormp]

Oh this is too much... They have completely abandoned "workstation enviroments" in terms of gpus! What do they offer againts 5090? Nothing! If you're a game dev, vfx artist, digital artist in general what choice do you have other than Nvidia? When it comes to overall gpu market Nvidia practically sort of have a monopoly. But when it comes to 90 series hardware Nvidia have absolute literal monopoly.

It's all half baked. Examples: They have developer support blogs which are not as good as Nvidia blog posts. They on paper have a render engine project called "Pro Render", one AMD dude is assigned to project. One valiant AMD dev who posts updates on github. It's not good. Why would I use Pro Renderer when I can have Unreal Path Tracer/Karma/Renderman/Octane etc. Renderer is not the point, it's just one example. Are they really interested in competing in GPU space? Here is a crazy idea, maybe, just maybe, if they want bigger GPU market share, they should focus on getting the game devs on board. If game devs are mainly using AMD and not just for support and bug testing, they can more efficiently get gamers on board too.

AMD currently has the issue of having 2 different GPU lineups: their CDNA and RDNA offerings.
They're mostly focusing on CDNA at the moment since that's what's bringing them money in data centers, with all the AI craze and whatnot. However, this means that RDNA gets constrained both in developer time, and in fab allocation priority.
Nvidia on the other hand uses the same µarch for both their DC, workstation and consumer segments, so they can just fab a chip and decide later in which segment they'll be using that chip, and adjust this over time as demand fluctuates.

UDNA should bring AMD closer to this scenario, hopefully.