AMD Ryzen Threadripper Gen 2 Full Specs and Availability

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As of this morning, AMD has outlined all of its upcoming Gen 2 Threadripper CPUs. As reviewers, we were supplied a single 2990WX, and single 2950X CPUs. However there are 2970WX, and 2920X model parts on the way. The 2970WX MSRP will be $1300, and the 2920X will be $650. The 2970WX will be a 24C/48T part while the 2920X will be a 12C/24T part. Both of these parts are slated for retail availability in October.

Ecosystem Readiness - All 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors support the SocketTR4 platform, sporting sixty-four PCIe Gen 3.0 lanes, and quad channel DDR4 memory with ECC support3. All 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs are supported by a full ecosystem of new and existing X399 platforms at launch, with designs already available from top motherboard manufacturers including ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI. Along with the broad selection of motherboards, the SocketTR4 platform supports a wide range of new and existing cooling solutions, including the new Wraith Ripper air-cooler showcased at Computex 2018. This cooler is now available from CoolerMaster and features compatibility with the SocketTR4 platform and all 1st Gen and 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper processors.
 
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Looking forward to your in-depth review on these CPUs Kyle.

I know you don’t have it yet, but I’m wondering about the thermal headroom on the 12 core part, as it seems to be very conservatively rated.
 
I may go for the 12 core or 16 core instead of waiting for a Zen2 8 core. Not that I need it but I've never really built a high end system before and I think it's about time.
 
Will hold out for AM4 12/16 core CPUs. 1700X does what I need it to do for now, but a 50% boost in productivity would warrant an upgrade.
 
That 2920X price point is tempting, its a bit more than I want to spend but we will see. I wont be a month 1 upgrader anyways, so I can wait for reviews. Motherboards offered will likely make the declension for me on which direction I go. I dont NEED to upgrade now, just want to.
 
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2950X has a 4.4GHz turbo frequency? Hmm, i'd be interested in seeing testing done on that one.
 
Wooo that 2920 sounds tasty.

Nice little upgrade from an 8700k, right?

Good job AMD.
Never thought I'd ever consider an AMD processor but here we are...
 
I got a 1920X with a future upgrade in mind. The 2950X looks appealing, wouldn't even need to overclock it for games if it Turbo boosts up to 4.4 GHz. That would probably be better than my all core 4.1 GHz overclock I have right now. So do I build a micro atx machine for my wife with the 1920X, or sell it and buy the 2950X, or just be happy with what I have now because I'm probably not CPU limited with a Vega 56..
 
craigdt said:
Wooo that 2920 sounds tasty.

Nice little upgrade from an 8700k, right?

Good job AMD.
Never thought I'd ever consider an AMD processor but here we are...
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I haven't had one in at least 8 years. Now I'm jonesing for one of these 32/64 core beasts.
 
Bigdady92 said:
I haven't had one in at least 8 years. Now I'm jonesing for one of these 32/64 core beasts.
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Give into the dark side. Fortunately, I can strip stuff out of my old Intel PC, so I only need the MB/CPU. I'd have loved new video cards to have come out though.
 
Interesting that the 16c part has a 100Mhz higher boost than the 12c part.
 
I am assuming hardware virtualization is a thing with these. I'm tired and haven't seen a word about it (and come to think of it they never advertise TR for running VMs.)

Anyone see anything I might have missed?
 
prne10 said:
I am assuming hardware virtualization is a thing with these. I'm tired and haven't seen a word about it (and come to think of it they never advertise TR for running VMs.)

Anyone see anything I might have missed?
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Yep.
 
prne10 said:
Cool, except for the fact that running 64 threads worth of VMs will require another 1.5k in system memory. Bleh.

I need to figure out how to write this off on my taxes.
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You can run linux vms on 1G easly...so 64G with no overcommit.
 
Mega6 said:
Then go look at Epyc.
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I have, but the lower clocks won't be good for playtime. This is a multi-use type of setup. I've considered setting up a completely separate box and grabbing some older gen dual socket xeons, but I don't have the room for the noise and heat in this one bedroom apartment.

Overall, I think one system is going to be the better jack of all trades solution.
 
prne10 said:
Depends on what you're doing with the hosts. In my case, one application typically uses 40 threads and 60G+ memory.
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I'm saying it's possible, not that it's possible in your exact case...
 
Mega6 said:
Pretty pointless to interject your use case in this TR2 thread, borderline off topic.
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Thanks for the input, bro!

To get back on topic, I'm pretty excited about the TR2. Can't wait to see the full tests with different cooling solutions.

EDIT: Also, special thanks to Kyle for hooking us up with some great content (as usual)!
 
What would be the first thing I'd do with 32 cores?

Run each one individually and see if any can hit 4.5-4.6 with less than 1.45 vcore.

I really do wonder how much core quality can fluctuate with such a large sample size of cores. Or perhaps core quality depends more on the wafer as a whole.. Hmm.
 
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