AMD Threadripper new cpu?

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New AMD Ryzen CPU with 16 Cores ???

Hi everyone I found today at the AMD YouTube channel this https://youtu.be/VUuuuah2md8 Codename: Threadripper.

Greetings from Germany !

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Some company will have to get their shit together to keep up with this.
Would be nice to know clockspeeds on the 16 core part tho.

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Leaks suggested 3.6 boost and from what we have seen from ryzen so far I would assume you can push it to 4.0 with adequate cooling. Personally I'm fine with eight cores but as far as HEDT goes .... Intel doesn't look that good these days. :wink:

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Here is the ars technica report on the new Threadripper CPUs:

Sounds incredible for workstations, especially editors and the like. This thing is chunky though.

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I was thinking more of a VM server beast.

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thats just the Engineering sample. The whole point of the AM4 socket was too have a universal socket that all new AMD cpus shared. everything from very low end desktops to extreme high end servers.

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I concur.
Based on recent news/rumors I would say Intel starts too look for me even silly, at least in the desktop segment, with its i9

Maybe its just me, but sometimes, whatever effect the marketing teams wanted to achieve, I get the opposite reaction.

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The Core i9 would be fine if Intel came up with the idea much earlier, but nooo, only after Ryzen...though I did hear rumors there use to be a Core i9 CPU.

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This isn't AM4 as I understand it.

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hmm. interesting. That was the whole point of AM4 was too have a universal socket that all ryzen cpus shared

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This isn't AM4. I agree though a single socket for everything would have been great. But with that said AM4 is supporting the Ryzen revision/versions, it just seem like 8 core 16 threads will be the limit for the socket.

Any hint on the prices? 10-16 cores at 4Ghz or over will probably have a very wide appeal.

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Whast I am excited for it that it is basically the same socket as Naples or Epyc. I wonder with a bios revision, could it run?

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Alt headline: Threadripper Is Epyc Name For High End Ryzen!

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AM4 socket isn't possible to use for high end servers and whatnot.
It doesn't have enough pins for all the memory channels, interconnects between the different sockets and all the IO and so on.
AMD has taken 4 8 core dies and put them on the same substrate for their 32 core naples chips, splitting it in many chunks greatly improves yields and thus costs less to make than just going straight to monolithic dies.
Intel did this with their core 2 quad chips by having two dual core dies on the same substrate.

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To be honest my 3-year cycle of workstation life is due to end in a couple months, so I'm starting too looking for a replacement platform.

And I already almost disregarded i9 (no revolution + chipset that differs mostly by part number + more cores + less cache! -> just higher price).

With AMD I already have some expectation that will have more cores for the same price.

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As eager as I am, I am holding off. I want to see how things shake out with another new platform. Wait and see approach for me. Do I have some workflows that can uses this - hells yeah! Potentially even multi-boxing.

As to the name: Threadripper = Taserface?

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