AMD's plans to release 64-core Threadripper processor this year - Rumour

[WYP]

Threadripper's not dead. Far from it.



Read more about AMD's rumoured 64-core Ryzen Threadripper processor.

[cooperman]

Me - How meny cores?
AMD - Yes!

[AngryGoldfish]

Would anyone actually need that many cores though in the standard HEDT range?

[AlienALX]

Originally Posted by AngryGoldfish

Would anyone actually need that many cores though in the standard HEDT range?

HEDT mostly workstation so I'd say yes. Especially if they're rendering.

[AngryGoldfish]

Originally Posted by AlienALX

HEDT mostly workstation so I'd say yes. Especially if they're rendering.

But isn't a GPU still quicker and more cost effective? A 64 core can't be even remotely affordable.

[tgrech]

Depends on the workload basically, you need a >98% parallel workload to really make use of a GPU and even then if it's non-uniform or branchy like compilation or simulation a CPU would usually do it better. Modern CPUs have lots of specialised units for certain types of calculation that GPUs don't necessarily have and vice versa.

For 96-98% parallel workloads you can still get a good 30-60% speed up going from 32 cores to 64-cores. For 95% parallel going from 32c to 64c gives upto a 25% speed-up, going up to 4096/infinite cores you'd only get a 60% speed up from 32c but often with GPUs those cores are several times slower per "core" so it's not worthwhile when your workload is still this serial(5%).

[looz]

Pretty neat for spinning up VMs without a care in the world too.

[NeverBackDown]

Originally Posted by AngryGoldfish

But isn't a GPU still quicker and more cost effective? A 64 core can't be even remotely affordable.

Depends on what type of rendering. You can also still use a CPU AND GPU to render something as well. So still helpful.

Or now that I think about it, if you had two renders, one could be loaded onto the GPU and the other the CPU. That would be quite something to.

Originally Posted by looz

Pretty neat for spinning up VMs without a care in the world too.

Let's be real you could do pretty much anything without a care in the world with 64 cores