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> Apparently we now think 64 cores is ‘lower core count’. What a world we live in. 64 cores is a high-end gaming rig. Civilization VII won't run smoothly on less than 16.
[1] Fragmentation, at best C++ dialects, no practical compiler tech to transparently GPU offload, etc
> Apparently we now think 64 cores is ‘lower core count’. What a world we live in. 64 cores is a high-end gaming rig. Civilization VII won't run smoothly on less than 16.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't help but think that this sounds more like a failure to optimize at the software level rather than a reasonable hardware limitation.
That's the usual case when vid3o g4mes are "CPU limited". One has to just look whether the game does anything high-level that other games didn't do 10 years ago. Reasonable hardware limitations related to the CPU have normally to do with complex physics effects or unusually large crowds of NPCs. (Many games are CPU limited even for fairly small crowds because their engine isn't optimized for that purpose.)
Why do you type it like that?
Here I am running a 12 year old Dell PowerEdge with dual Xeons.. I wonder when the first gen Epyc servers will be cheap fodder on eBay.
At 1:11 in the video, there's a chart of the TDP (which I looked for in the text but couldn't find). At 125-500W, these things run very hot.
Has the full range with TDP. 500w is only for the 128/192 monster chips. The 16 core fast sku has a 320W TDP.
Here I am running a 12 year old Dell PowerEdge with dual Xeons.. I wonder when the first gen Epyc servers will be cheap fodder on eBay.
https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/9005-...
