The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
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Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
#2I'm very excited for AMD and their market successes lately. I never wanted a world controlled by Intel, and even if all my computers are Intel at the moment I feel the world benefits from this competition.
That being said... Processor pre-orders? I had No idea that was a thing. Hope you get a QA discount. It doesn't talk about sockets but for sake of preorderers I hope it's compatible with original threadripper boards. edit: Actually it does, and they mention it's compatible with existing main boards too. I missed that this was multiple pages.
Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
#3Given Intel's struggles around their process shrink, AMD may have come up with the perfect product at the perfect time. You can already see their effect with Intel finally adding more cores to their chips to try and stay competitive.
I do think that Intel will manage to get silicon out a bit earlier then their current end of CY19, but if they don't, TR and Ryzen may be the default go-to for manufacturers.
Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
#4That pricing is actually more reasonable than I was expecting. I might get myself a 32 core quad GPU workstation. Unthinkable even just a year ago.
Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
#5Given Intel's struggles around their process shrink, AMD may have come up with the perfect product at the perfect time. You can already see their effect with Intel finally adding more cores to their chips to try and stay competitive. I do think that Intel will manage to get silicon out a bit earlier then their current end of CY19, but if they don't, TR and Ryzen may be the default go-to for manufacturers.
There's also Samsung hurting intel image a lot. They became the most profitable silicon~ company (due to loads of memory) and they are head to head with intel in transistor process (near EUV ready).
Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
#6That pricing is actually more reasonable than I was expecting. I might get myself a 32 core quad GPU workstation. Unthinkable even just a year ago.
Good god! Why on earth you need 32 core quad GPU workstation?
Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
#7Imagine what'd happen what'll happen once AMD starts competing with Nvidia (for AI stuff).
Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
#8Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
#9That pricing is actually more reasonable than I was expecting. I might get myself a 32 core quad GPU workstation. Unthinkable even just a year ago.
Good god! Why on earth you need 32 core quad GPU workstation?
Cinema4D and Blender are both very CPU intensive as well as taxing on the GPU.
Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
#10Given Intel's struggles around their process shrink, AMD may have come up with the perfect product at the perfect time. You can already see their effect with Intel finally adding more cores to their chips to try and stay competitive. I do think that Intel will manage to get silicon out a bit earlier then their current end of CY19, but if they don't, TR and Ryzen may be the default go-to for manufacturers.
It is time to give AMD a chance. Intel is plagued by problems with the 10nm process technology resulting in no significant innovation on their CPUs' performance or power consumption for over two years now. And just recently they pushed their 10nm products even further back to the second half of 2019. AMD might have the first 7nm CPUs out by then. Of course process technologies are not easily comparable between fabs but it is still crazy to see Intel starting to fall behind in process technology - a game they dominated for decades.