AMD Ryzen 2nd Gen Threadripper 32 Cores Confirmed

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Who would have guessed it!? AMD will be serving up a 32-Core 64-Thread Threadripper in Q3 of this year. That is word from an early morning press conference in Taipei that is live right now.

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Threadripper coverage starts around the 1:11:00 mark.

Vega 7nm Confirmed, but be advised this is not aimed at the gamer market, but rather the AI and machine learning enterprise systems. Lisa Su did say, "For all of you gamers out there, we are definitely bringing 7nm GPUs to gaming as well, so stay tuned on that."
 
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Vega 7nm Confirmed, but be advised this is not aimed at the gamer market, but rather the AI and machine learning enterprise systems. Lisa Su did say, "For all of you gamers out there, we are definitely bringing 7nm GPUs to gaming as well, so stay tuned on that."
 
jmilcher said:
Explains why threadripper had the two disabled modules. I'm pretty sure most of us thought they'd come out with a fully loaded CPU.

I'm glad to see competition.
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The only thing I wonder about is the clock speeds they can achieve with reasonable temperatures on that.
 
Dan_D said:
The only thing I wonder about is the clock speeds they can achieve with reasonable temperatures on that.
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I would question the same. It would be marketed I'd hope accordingly, ie for multicore, multithreaded performance of balanced work loads vs single threaded performance.

I wonder what the TDP will be.
 
I just like slide for 7nm GPU! 2x efficiency, 2x density, 35% performance. Seriously they can bring vega 64 performance at half the power? If those numbers are right. Looks like Lisa kicked raja out and went to the engineers said, give me 7nm working GPU in 2018 or bust! Probably the only way for them to compete with Nvidia until next gen! I say Lisa is executing the shit out of 7nm!
 
Based on AMD's design, Threadripper 2 boards might have a much higher power envelope allowing ~4+ GHz on all cores. Granted, existing Threadripper 1 boards would melt.
 
threadripper discussion really starts around the 1h11m mark.. they show the 7980XE (18 core) vs zen+ 24 core threadripper in cinbench and then show the 32 core.

umeng2002 said:
Based on AMD's design, Threadripper 2 boards might have a much higher power envelope allowing ~4+ GHz on all cores. Granted, existing Threadripper 1 boards would melt.
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they were able to get the power usage down on zen+ while still having higher clocks so i'd except you'd see the same across threadripper as well. if current boards are able to handle 300w+ as is i would think they'll probably be fine with the 32 core processors, what i really want to see is how PB2 works on threadripper which may deter people from bothering to overclock if it works just as well as it does on the 2k series.
 
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And besides, why would 'yall want a new gaming-focused card now? So you could stare at its "Out of Stock" status underneath it's 3x MSRP Price tag?

It makes sense AMD is making 7nm Vega an enterprise part, as no matter what they release it as: Gamers won't get a chance to use it.
 
umeng2002 said:
Based on AMD's design, Threadripper 2 boards might have a much higher power envelope allowing ~4+ GHz on all cores. Granted, existing Threadripper 1 boards would melt.
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AMD Chips tend to transfer heat much better then intel though. I am surprised they didn't make a joke about not having to delid lol! Threadripper is highly binned chips and is likely more optimized. They did say it was running on air too!
 
KazeoHin said:
And besides, why would 'yall want a new gaming-focused card now? So you could stare at its "Out of Stock" status underneath it's 3x MSRP Price tag?

It makes sense AMD is making 7nm Vega an enterprise part, as no matter what they release it as: Gamers won't get a chance to use it.
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Its a good strategy. They can make all they can and sell it to professional market and then as production ramp up and when they can meet consumer demand they can bring out the gaming cards. Mining craze will eventually evaporate though with new mining hardware coming out for other coins.
 
The Vega 7 nm section is quite exciting. Shot's were fired (through speaker David Wan) directly at Nvidia. The tone was "fuck CUDA, here is all the frameworks/tools ready day one for Vega 7 nm."

Fighting words, "Open frameworks free our developers/partners to innovate.."
 
NKD said:
AMD Chips tend to transfer heat much better then intel though. I am surprised they didn't make a joke about not having to delid lol! Threadripper is highly binned chips and is likely more optimized. They did say it was running on air too!
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they sorta indirectly did with the threadripper test by saying the 7980XE was water cooled while the 24 core and 32 core threadrippers were being run on air. i'm sure they didn't bring up the delid part because they knew some amateur on youtube would of bitched and cried about why the APU's could be delid even though it's been shown that the difference is very minor compared to what you get when you delid/relidding intel processors.
 
Dan_D said:
The only thing I wonder about is the clock speeds they can achieve with reasonable temperatures on that.
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jmilcher said:
I would question the same. It would be marketed I'd hope accordingly, ie for multicore, multithreaded performance of balanced work loads vs single threaded performance.

I wonder what the TDP will be.
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And that is something that I will find out as well. Promise.
 
Looks like I will be replacing our remote sensing computer in the lab!

Depending on price, I may even put it in my personal machine (although the 7820x at 5ghz is a beast in its own right)
 
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This may prompt Intel to pump out Fully enabled and unlocked 24-core i9s in the future, I mean Intel MacGuyver'd a prototype 28 core system and used refrigerated custom watercooling to run one round of Cinebench, so who knows, maybe 18< core i9s are in our future!
 
AMD 32 | Intel 28 ... if it was a scoreboard AMD is the winner.

Has Moore's Law caused them to go the multitude of cores road?
 
The second 64 threads helps me in civilization, I would buy one. Doubt that for a long while though
 
_l_ said:
AMD 32 | Intel 28 ... if it was a scoreboard AMD is the winner.

Has Moore's Law caused them to go the multitude of cores road?
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Sort of, the average computer usage has also just gotten to the point where trying to push all the workload through one core is just inefficient, you spend more time on task scheduling than on processing workloads.
There is also user experience to think about, if something takes a second or two longer but while they are doing it there is no interface lag or stuttering they will feel like the system is faster even if overall it isn’t.
 
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_l_ said:
AMD 32 | Intel 28 ... if it was a scoreboard AMD is the winner.

Has Moore's Law caused them to go the multitude of cores road?
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To an extent. It's now way easier to just "glue" more cores together. It also helps, from a business perspective, that popular workloads are HIGHLY parallel: Running a lot of VMs, Rendering videos and other Scientific simulations, etc.

I would say the big speed ups now are in cache latencies between distant cores and making sure software is properly threaded.
 
The CPU competition sure looks pretty bright, looking forward to see if Zen 3 will have a mainstream 12-16 core parts!
 
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