News AMD Threadripper 2 Prices Shredded After Ryzen 3000 Debut

[Admin]

With the release of the AMD Ryzen 3000-series processors, prices of for the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X and 2920X have been slashed.

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[GetSmart]

With the debut of AMD's 12 and 16 core 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs, these Threadripper CPUs are now depreciated. This also made Intel's HEDT platform furthermore irrelevant. Will Intel slash the prices of their current HEDT CPUs? Time will tell.

 

[msroadkill612]

Yes, TR is bigger and badder, and formerly AM4 platforms would work for the demanding task of video processing, it wasnt in contention for a serious hedt.

But I hear from actual editors champing at the bit for the 16 core R7 7nm to release in sept, that there are 3 main advantages over TR. Its faster, its faster & its faster - so much so, its more toy like specs can be overlooked or worked around or lived with.

to say tr can run a huge 256GB of ram is true, but am4's 128GB is huge too.

To say zen2 has a mere 24 lanes is to all intents, false. Those pcie 4 lanes are twice the capacity of TR's pcie 3 lanes, and four of them are multiplexed into 16 lanes - they are ~"real" lanes, unless too many are too heavily used concurrently. For most, zen2 am4 is effectively a 40 lane rig.

 

[SgtScream]

I'd like to see benchmarks between threadripper and the new 16 core when it comes out. Sure it will be faster, however id like to find out if threadripper be able to compensate on work loads with quad channel.

 

[TokyoQuaSar]

The article totally missed the point and commented on the amount of memory and not the amount of memory bandwidth, which is the whole point when comparing HEDT and non HEDT CPUs...

The TR has 7.8GB/s of memory bandwidth per core, the 3900X has 4.27GB/s. The 3900X has less bandwidth per core than a core i7 2700K launched in 2011 and using DDR3 1333... Actually it has even less if compared to a core 2 Duo E6400 of 2006 that has 6.4GB/s of bandwidth per core. Not even mentionning the 3950X. AMD is doing great but given the amount of cores I would totally go for a TR over a Ryzen R9 because the R9 will be starving for memory bandwidth in many cases.