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64 cores with 128 threads. Hope that comes to threadripper. I love and for bringing back competition to the CPU market. We've bought a ton of amd machines in the last year, great bargains in our space.
If these chips really do have a ~25% performance gain over Ryzen (not counting IPC gains), I might just upgrade, and I think a lot of other people are in the same boat.
This could be a fantastic win for AMD. I was worried that Zen 2 was going to be a moderate improvement, but this seems to be pretty significant. It's been a while since AMD has been first to market with a big winner...
>On the security side, Zen 2 introduces in-silicon enhanced Spectre mitigations that were originally offered in firmware and software in Zen. does intel have something comparable on their roadmap?
64 cores with 128 threads. Hope that comes to threadripper. I love and for bringing back competition to the CPU market. We've bought a ton of amd machines in the last year, great bargains in our space.
I’m a huge fan of the Threadripper concept, just wish they hadn’t neutered the 32-core chip compared to its Epyc counterpart.
[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13124/the-amd-threadripper-29...
64 cores with 128 threads. Hope that comes to threadripper. I love and for bringing back competition to the CPU market. We've bought a ton of amd machines in the last year, great bargains in our space.
Benchmarks on the 32-core TR are... disappointing, to say the least.[1] If you’re purely compute bound, it can be a win over the 16-core version, but if memory access is a factor, it’s a wash due to the extra hops to memory. And to my mind, there are very few pure-compute applications that wouldn’t benefit more from AVX2 and the like... in which case a cheaper Intel CPU would still wipe the floor with the 32-core chi…
64 cores with 128 threads. Hope that comes to threadripper. I love and for bringing back competition to the CPU market. We've bought a ton of amd machines in the last year, great bargains in our space.
Benchmarks on the 32-core TR are... disappointing, to say the least.[1] If you’re purely compute bound, it can be a win over the 16-core version, but if memory access is a factor, it’s a wash due to the extra hops to memory. And to my mind, there are very few pure-compute applications that wouldn’t benefit more from AVX2 and the like... in which case a cheaper Intel CPU would still wipe the floor with the 32-core chi…
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All AMD processors have supported ECC for a very long time, its trivial to support it, Intel have just decided to gate it as a premium feature.
Sort of - they let mainboard vendors decide whether to support it or not, which means it can be a crapshoot. For example, MSI's been known in the past to kill ECC support with a BIOS update; some vendors have tested that you can use ECC RAM but won't enable any of the error correction (for example, Gigabyte say this in [1]: "non-ECC mode".) Selfishly I really wish they would make it easier, because I'm in the market…
I’m the kind of person that lurks in /r/homelab though - so I’ve also got a 25U rack to keep all my gear. If you want a tower to stuff in a corner things get more dicey.
Damn, with 64core/128 threads becoming widely available a lot of Windows software will have to be updated to use that because of "64 bits should be enough for everybody" kind of decision in Windows when implementing affinity. You can't get more than 64 threads in OpenMp when compiling with MinGW and you can get it with Clang but the implementation wasn't very efficient when tested it. I suspect the problem is there i…
Damn, with 64core/128 threads becoming widely available a lot of Windows software will have to be updated to use that because of "64 bits should be enough for everybody" kind of decision in Windows when implementing affinity. You can't get more than 64 threads in OpenMp when compiling with MinGW and you can get it with Clang but the implementation wasn't very efficient when tested it. I suspect the problem is there i…
Just run 2 Windows instances. Problem solved.