AMD Releases Threadripper Pro Workstation CPUs to the DIY Market

raschmidt · Mar 3, 2021

Thank God it says "Built for pros" - I was worried I might need to buy it but since I'm not a pros my wallet should be safe.

1d10t · Mar 3, 2021

Such a beast of CPU, it would be breeze running many VM with these.

Tomorrow · Mar 3, 2021

3955WX price is pretty good for TR. Yes the platform is more expensive but not by much. And while the 3955WX is Zen 2 vs Zen 3 on 5950X it has advantages like 8 channel RAM support (up to 2TB vs 128GB on AM4) and 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes compared to 24 lanes on 5950X (16 to GPU, 4 to primary M.2 and 4 to chipset).

deu · Mar 3, 2021

msimax said:
thats a sexy motherboard lol

I bet it speaks with a german accent too....

ZoneDymo · Mar 3, 2021

deu said:
I bet it speaks with a german accent too....

oh ja ja, sehr fielen threads, ganz gut

milewski1015 · Mar 3, 2021

dragontamer5788 said:
EPYC has much lower clockspeeds. So these Threadripper Pros are in fact, superior to EPYC for workstation purposes (which have a variety of single-threaded bound tasks, which need GHz instead of cores).

That's the thing about workstations: they need to be both a client device with high GHz (UI-threads, plugins, etc. etc. are usually single-threaded) AND a... well... workstation with tons of cores for Rendering / whatever.

Your fancy Raytracer might be well-parallelized and utilize 128-threads nice and well. But random custom-loader that was written by Intern #15 that loads/saves the level data in some XML / JSON abomination is going to be single-threaded bound and probably written (poorly) in Python. I mean, ycombinator / Hacker News completely blew up a few days ago when a single-threaded "sscanf" performance issue was tracked down as the reason why GTAV levels took so damn long to load (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339)

Thanks for sharing that link. Hadn't heard about that. An interesting read, albeit frustrating to hear that so much of the slow loading times for the game are due to easily fixable code

Hossein Almet · Mar 5, 2021

Actually it's quite affordable, the 16 cores variant is for pre-order at A$1649. And the Asus Pro WRX80E is A$1699, while the Gigabyte WRX80 can be had for a mere A$1299.

DemonicRyzen666 · Mar 5, 2021

Hossein Almet said:
Actually it's quite affordable, the 16 cores variant is for pre-order at A$1649. And the Asus Pro WRX80E is A$1699, while the Gigabyte WRX80 can be had for a mere A$1299.

Their is a supermicro board is listed on Newegg for $620
Most of these boards have basic on board video too.

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