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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

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post #4

That 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?

Deep learning. CPUs do data augmentation, GPUs do linear algebra. I already have a Core i9, but it’s “only” 10 cores, and it’s struggling to keep up with GPUs

Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores

#12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Blender 2.8 Eevee is reducing rendering by factor of 100, with a modest reduction of quality. It's basically using game rendering techniques, but instead of catering to realtime, it'll take a couple seconds to produce a frame. It's almost entirely GPU driven, so in the future there may not be a need to really go full Threadripper unless you use Cycles daily.

Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores

#14
post #2

I'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 board…

> It doesn't talk about sockets but for sake of preorderers I hope it's compatible with original threadripper boards.

AMD has already committed to using the same socket until 2020.

Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores

#15
post #4

That 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?

Deep Learning, once you’ve got enough GPUs you end up bottlenecking on the CPU.

Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores

#16
post #2

I'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 board…

> It doesn't talk about sockets but for sake of preorderers I hope it's compatible with original threadripper boards. AMD has already committed to using the same socket until 2020.

This alone is a great reason to run AMD...

Re: The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores

#20

Bloody hell, this processor has more cores than the dual socket Xeon HPCs that my lab bought 2 years ago. Amazing. Honest question: Isn't the memory throughput an issue when you try to feed 32 hungry processors?

Yes, hopefully the motherboard manufactures take that seriously.
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