Having a Rome 64 processor doesn't sound very promising.
AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores
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#12Giddy! At this rate I will be running a 64 Core processor on my desktop in 2 years!
You can buy a 64 core dual socket EPYC workstation today for ~$15000. I wonder how much cheaper it'll be 2 years from now.
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#13Looks like this is an account that only posts links to this obscure Indian tech blog.
Is there anything inherently wrong with that?
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#1464 cores but 128 with simultaneous multithreading. And in a 2C configuration, you get 256 threads. That is a beautiful thing.
Memories of Niagara falls
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#15Does anyone have an idea how many different processors tapeouts are needed to create this line?
It seems reasonable to assume that 48-core chip is just 64-core chip with few defective cores. A lower clocked version is the same ship that high clocked that did not pass some test.
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#16Does anyone have an idea how many different processors tapeouts are needed to create this line? It seems reasonable to assume that 48-core chip is just 64-core chip with few defective cores. A lower clocked version is the same ship that high clocked that did not pass some test.
2. Epyc is a combination of multiple tiny 7nm 8 core CPU chiplets and a single massive 14nm IO chip.
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#17Oh man, I can't wait to make -j 128...
You'd better have a couple of very fast NVME SSDs in a striped configuration for i/o to keep up ;)
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#18The real question for me with all these AMD releases, what's Intel gonna release? It's surprising to me that Apple didn't announce an AMD based Mac Pro-- the chip Intel gave them must really be something. Too bad though because there could be a lot more of them (eventual Mac Pros) out there I'm guessing if they were using these Rome chips.
There's probably bit of hardware lot it with Intel chips. Since they control the hardware, Apple probably has invested quite a bit into hardware specific optimizations that won't readily port to AMD chipsets.
Also, AMD is only recently been a performance front runner - they might not hold on to that for long. In the short term it doesn't make sense to jump ship.
For for general computation/ecosystems or for generation/device specific ventures (e.g. Consoles) it makes sense to turn with the tides.
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#19The real question for me with all these AMD releases, what's Intel gonna release? It's surprising to me that Apple didn't announce an AMD based Mac Pro-- the chip Intel gave them must really be something. Too bad though because there could be a lot more of them (eventual Mac Pros) out there I'm guessing if they were using these Rome chips.
Apple had probably been designing that for a long time. It's difficult to change something that custom once you start going down that path.
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#20Looks like this is an account that only posts links to this obscure Indian tech blog.
All blogs presumably start out obscure. This one seems reasonably written and the content is interesting. (Genuinely) What's the problem?