The launch for these new processors, according to our moles is in early August. Other specifications are expected to match the previous generation, such as PCIe lane counts, despite the newly active dies. At Computex there are new X399 refresh motherboards being demonstrated by a few companies, and we will report on them in due course. That is not saying that the current X399 offerings will not work, however they might not offer overclocking to the level that users might expect. Nonetheless, it was stated by several motherboard vendors that some of the current X399 motherboards on the market might struggle with power delivery to the new parts, and so we are likely to see a motherboard refresh. We have been told by partners that the 250W rating is actually conservative, and users should expect lower power consumption in most scenarios. According to the motherboard vendors These new Threadripper 2000-series processors will have a peak TDP rating of 250W, which is much higher than 180W we saw on the 1950X. Despite the high TDP, both CPUs used in AMD's demos were air-cooled, using AMD's Wraith Ripper Air CoolerĪlso announced at the presentation is the state of play of motherboards.This is the first we've heard this codename from AMD. The codename for the processor family is listed as "Colfax".This is notable because the Ryzen processors based on the same 12nm Zeppelin dies officially max out at DDR4-2933. The 32-core system was equipped with DDR4-3200 memory.Both the 24-core and 32-core sample CPUs are clocked at 3.0GHz base and 3.4GHz all-core turbo, with the latter being a work-in-progress according to the company.
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Update: AMD has just published a full copy of their slide deck for the Threadripper 2 presentation. While it does put more pressure on the internal Infinity Fabric, AMD ultimately designed Infinity Fabric for scalable scenarios like this between different silicon with different levels of cache and memory access. This technically adds latency to the platform, however AMD is of the impression that for all but the most memory bound tasks, this should not be an issue (usually it is suggested to just go buy an EPYC for those workloads). For the first generation this meant that each of the two active die would have two memory channels attached – in the second generation Threadripper this is still the case: the two now ‘active’ parts of the chip do not have direct memory access. On EPYC however, there are eight memory channels, and AMD’s X399 platform only has support for four channels. On EPYC, those processors have four active dies, with eight active cores on each die (four for each CCX). For this second generation of Threadripper, called Threadripper 2 or the Threadripper 2000-series, AMD is going to make these inactive dies into active ones, and substantially increase the core count for the high-end desktop and workstation user.Īt the AMD press event at Computex, it was revealed that these new processors would have up to 32 cores in total, mirroring the 32-core versions of EPYC. Inside the CPU however, there are four pieces of silicon: two active and two inactive. This article is still a work in progress, and will be updated as more news comes in.ĪMD’s Zeppelin silicon has 8 cores, and the first generation Threadripper uses two of them to get to the top-SKU of 16-cores. For 2018, the next generation is going to be using AMD’s updated 12nm Zeppelin dies, as well as including a few new tweaks into the system including better boost and faster caches. Despite the mainstream Ryzen processors already taking a devastating stab into the high-end desktop market, AMD’s Threadripper offered more cores at a workstation-friendly price.
One of the surprises from AMD’s first year of the newest x86 Zen architecture was the launch of the Threadripper platform.
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