AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

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Post by MikusR » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 1:09 PM UTC

AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
anandtech.com

Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

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Post by karangoeluw » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 1:52 PM UTC

Honest q: What home-use workstation would use 32 cores? (Excluding home labs or servers).

Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

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Post by crypt0ninja » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 1:53 PM UTC

karangoeluw wrote: post #2

Honest q: What home-use workstation would use 32 cores? (Excluding home labs or servers).

I'd use it for home labs or servers.

Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

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Post by Symmetry » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 1:54 PM UTC

karangoeluw wrote: post #2

Honest q: What home-use workstation would use 32 cores? (Excluding home labs or servers).

Rendering is something I could see people doing at home if that's their hobby.

Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

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Post by jghjg » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 1:55 PM UTC

karangoeluw wrote: post #2

Honest q: What home-use workstation would use 32 cores? (Excluding home labs or servers).

some home labs or servers

Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

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Post by carbocation » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 1:55 PM UTC

karangoeluw wrote: post #2

Honest q: What home-use workstation would use 32 cores? (Excluding home labs or servers).

I think that most of us who are interested in high core counts are at least hobbyists. For example, I use Monte Carlo simulation to compute the pagerank vector for all of the biomedical literature on PubMed. 32 cores is either 32x faster than 1 core, or lets me improve the precision of my results. Sure, this isn't browsing the web, but it's also not a real research project or a business.

Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

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Post by ekianjo » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 1:55 PM UTC

Symmetry wrote: post #4

karangoeluw wrote: post #2

Honest q: What home-use workstation would use 32 cores? (Excluding home labs or servers).

Rendering is something I could see people doing at home if that's their hobby.

Then the tests in this article are hardly convincing.

Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

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Post by ekianjo » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

crypt0ninja wrote: post #3

karangoeluw wrote: post #2

Honest q: What home-use workstation would use 32 cores? (Excluding home labs or servers).

I'd use it for home labs or servers.

Home servers? In what situation would you ever need 32 cores for home usage? I'm genuinely curious.

Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

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Post by rhencke » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 2:00 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #8

crypt0ninja wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd use it for home labs or servers.

Home servers? In what situation would you ever need 32 cores for home usage? I'm genuinely curious.

Build servers, video conversion/streaming, and hosting game servers are use cases that would certainly benefit from this in a hobbyist/home environment.

Re: AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

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Post by nv-vn » Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 2:00 PM UTC

It's funny to me how much range there is in these tests. Some of these are seemingly backwards with better CPUs ranking so much worse and some look completely random. But wow, the performance on these new TR chips is just insane. Never would've guessed that AMD would be this competitive a few years ago, especially not on the CPU front. Looking forward to the upcoming 7nm launch, can't wait to see what's in store.