Well then, AMD are truly back in the game now aren't they! They have announced the AMD Ryzen 9 'Threadripper' which will come with up to 16 cores.
See their announcement video:
There's been a bunch of leaks surrounding Threadripper and I don't know how true they are, but the line-up could be something like this (source):
Those are some incredibly impressive specifications. Everyone I've spoken to with a current Ryzen chip is incredibly happy with it, so it certainly seems like AMD is fully back on form. They have a good chip design, with a decent roadmap and now some even more powerful chips coming out.
There's also this roadmap floating around:
It's going to be an interesting few years, since Intel finally have some proper competition once again, we will see things from both sides continue to move at a quicker pace now. The CPU wars are back and we should all win, since Intel's domination seems to firmly be over.
My i7 is starting to feel a little old now, might be upgrade time sometime next year. Zen 2 could be an ideal upgrade for me, but ideally I will be looking for a new monitor and GPU first. My current monitor doesn't turn on half the time now which is becoming a real nuisance to work with.
What do you think to the idea of Threadripper? Catchy name. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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There's been a bunch of leaks surrounding Threadripper and I don't know how true they are, but the line-up could be something like this (source):
Those are some incredibly impressive specifications. Everyone I've spoken to with a current Ryzen chip is incredibly happy with it, so it certainly seems like AMD is fully back on form. They have a good chip design, with a decent roadmap and now some even more powerful chips coming out.
There's also this roadmap floating around:
It's going to be an interesting few years, since Intel finally have some proper competition once again, we will see things from both sides continue to move at a quicker pace now. The CPU wars are back and we should all win, since Intel's domination seems to firmly be over.
My i7 is starting to feel a little old now, might be upgrade time sometime next year. Zen 2 could be an ideal upgrade for me, but ideally I will be looking for a new monitor and GPU first. My current monitor doesn't turn on half the time now which is becoming a real nuisance to work with.
What do you think to the idea of Threadripper? Catchy name. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Avehicle7887 
May 17, 2017
With the i9 incoming, it looks like the battle for CPU supremacy will shift on who can pack the most cores in 1 die. Over the years I have seen very little improvements in Single core performance since Sandy Bridge (2nd Gen i-Series). I think AMD are very much on balance with price/performance, got no regrets with my 1700X, those 8 cores are truly a multitasking boon.
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Quoting: EikeQuoting: m0nt3On mediumish settings I have not seen below 49. However I am not very far in, just got to the apartment.
Thanks!
I have a reasonable frame rate, but severe dips from time to time...
Did you take a look at CPU (and GPU) usage?
I have the youtube video posted of brief gameplay, excuse my terribleness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeAhsAjfPK4
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It looks AMD is ready to update its famous waffle irons line /\. :D
I like it! (but will wait for Ryzen2).
I like it! (but will wait for Ryzen2).
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Quoting: m0nt3I have the youtube video posted of brief gameplay, excuse my terribleness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeAhsAjfPK4
Many thanks!
That's impressive indeed!
Ryzen just climbed some levels on my to-buy list. :)
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*squeels like a little girl*
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Quoting: MayeulCQuoting: STiATJust 16? Ohh :-(. I have 4, the upgrade is almost not worth it XD.
Don't worry, it makes for 32 threads with SMT. Oh, well, you can still wait for the Epyc server chip, which has 32 cores, which makes 64 threads, if that's not enough.
One thing to note is that it is quite close to NUMA architecture (multi-socket), powered by AMD's "Infinity Fabric" (some sort of memory exchange bus similar to PCI). Non-NUMA aware workloads might perform less well on such architectures, but it was already the same on the Ryzen 7, that had two "core complexes". Hopefully, the scheduler will help with that, if the workloads don't do anything stupid like start a thread on each core when memory locality is critical.
Look at those server chips, man... *goes back counting his (few) banknotes*
I'm very suspicious that's why they launched the R7 and R5 chips first to get them out there so developers could get cracking on those optimizations with this 6 month lead time. I think a lot of these "Ryzen" optimizations that were pumped out so quickly are in this arena. By the time people get their hands on Threadripper those optimizations will already be in software for the bulk of applications and already ready to go.
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Quoting: lucinosQuoting: Andrei B.Wow, 7nm.. Impressive.
Ten years ago we thought that 23nm was the physical limit.
I don't remember that. I for many years now remember the physical limit be considered around 5 nm (and it is getting there now as it seems). Moore's Law also considered to be halted in 2010s. 7nm is really impressive but not too unrealistic. Intel had stopped at 14nm for a some time now and either intel wanted Amd to catch up or already is getting proportionally way more difficult. Of course now I believe we Moore's Law is near the end and will not be continued in 2020s as already have happened for many years now with frequencies. In any case 1nm is very near the atomic scale.
I don't think it's gonna go that far down. The problem is that even if you make the transistors that small, you're gonna have a lot of problems with the supporting infrastructure, especially the power supply and heat dissipation.
What will probably happen is the switch to optronic circuits and quad bits or octa bits.
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