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Ben H · Post by **Ben H** » Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:23 am

Debutante wrote:AMD's a-comin!!!

So is Linux!!!

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:57 am

Linux: The "jay cutler" of OS's

nIGhT-SoN · Post by **nIGhT-SoN** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:44 am

If you guys have time to watch, this is quite interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSMJRyxG0k

Lesha · Post by **Lesha** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:54 am

nIGhT-SoN wrote:If you guys have time to watch, this is quite interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSMJRyxG0k

Already watched it. I knew about Intel's shady behavior, but this video shows how deep and dirty were Intel's practices. That is one of the reasons I supported AMD for years and will continue to support them.

Well worth a watch.

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:46 am

Most of this world was built on shady behavior.

Watch something on big tobacco, for example.

Debutante · Post by **Debutante** » Sun Jul 30, 2017 5:43 am

This is going to be my baby

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-threadrip ... enchmarks/

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Sun Jul 30, 2017 9:42 am

Debutante wrote:This is going to be my baby

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-threadrip ... enchmarks/

Come to Daddy!

fluffy_little_something · Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:31 am

What I don't quite get is, when the 16-core Threadripper CPU benchmark scores scale perfectly from the 1800X (i.e. they are twice as high), doesn't the higher number of memory channels, which have been considered a limitation with Ryzen, show any effect.
Also, assuming the scaling will also apply to the 8-core Threadripper, there should not be any difference between the Ryzen and Threadripper 8-core CPU's, right? Except for the price

Lesha · Post by **Lesha** » Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:45 am

fluffy_little_something wrote:What I don't quite get is, when the 16-core Threadripper CPU benchmark scores scale perfectly from the 1800X (i.e. they are twice as high), doesn't the higher number of memory channels, which have been considered a limitation with Ryzen, show any effect.
Also, assuming the scaling will also apply to the 8-core Threadripper, there should not be any difference between the Ryzen and Threadripper 8-core CPU's, right? Except for the price

Cinebench probably doesn't benefit from a quad channel memory, I will be waiting for other benchmarks.

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:56 am

fluffy_little_something wrote:What I don't quite get is, when the 16-core Threadripper CPU benchmark scores scale perfectly from the 1800X (i.e. they are twice as high), doesn't the higher number of memory channels, which have been considered a limitation with Ryzen, show any effect.
Also, assuming the scaling will also apply to the 8-core Threadripper, there should not be any difference between the Ryzen and Threadripper 8-core CPU's, right? Except for the price

If there are 2x the cores and 2x the memory channels, why does it suprise you that it is 2x as fast? Seems perfectly logical to moi.

kmonkey · Post by **kmonkey** » Sun Jul 30, 2017 11:18 am

incubus wrote:Most of this world was built on shady behavior.

Watch something on big tobacco, for example.

It does not make it automatically right. I am drifting offtopic but use your imagination and imagine where we would be in case this to what you refer at - was excluded and chance was given to sheer undisputed human resources. Wow.

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:04 pm

I dunno what to say about it that won't go all HPC. Anyways, if I go with a new system, and the kinks are worked out (which looks kinda like they are) I'm going AMD anyways it appears.

Lesha · Post by **Lesha** » Mon Jul 31, 2017 7:06 am

Here is a new 8c/16t Threadripper CPU with a price of $549, base clock 3.8, turbo 4.0 GHz.

https://videocardz.com/71449/amd-ryzen- ... ice-leaked

fluffy_little_something · Mon Jul 31, 2017 11:41 am

Lesha wrote:Here is a new 8c/16t Threadripper CPU with a price of $549, base clock 3.8, turbo 4.0 GHz.

https://videocardz.com/71449/amd-ryzen- ... ice-leaked

Why would one pay $130 more for that processor? The 1800X sells for about $420 these days.
When the top-end 16-core Threadripper scales perfectly from the 1800X, I assume the same will apply to the 8-core Threadripper. I.e. it will have about the same performance as the 1800X. The slightly higher base clock can easily be compensated for by mild overclocking.

Lesha · Post by **Lesha** » Mon Jul 31, 2017 12:00 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:
Lesha wrote:Here is a new 8c/16t Threadripper CPU with a price of $549, base clock 3.8, turbo 4.0 GHz.

https://videocardz.com/71449/amd-ryzen- ... ice-leaked
Why would one pay $130 more for that processor? The 1800X sells for about $420 these days.
When the top-end 16-core Threadripper scales perfectly from the 1800X, I assume the same will apply to the 8-core Threadripper. I.e. it will have about the same performance as the 1800X. The slightly higher base clock can easily be compensated for by mild overclocking.

More PCIe lanes and quad channel memory?

You could also buy this one if you don't have sufficient funds and upgrade later to the one with more cores.

AMD's a-comin!!!... and Intel's been a-dunnin!!