Building A Workstation With Ryzen Threadripper And Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

[FormatC]

High-performance workstations need to be as stable and reliable as they are fast. We put together an all-around crowd pleaser that'll allow us to test professional hardware on a relative budget

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[Unolocogringo]

Nice !!!!!
Now see what that baby can do Folding.

 

[bit_user]

It'd be nice to see some task benchmarked where Vega's HBCC really gets a workout. Can you ask AMD for examples of this?

BTW, you'd probably need more system memory, since HBCC is useful when accessing significantly more data than the GPU's 16 GB of RAM can hold.

 

[cangelini]

Bit, this is something I tried to get out of AMD when Vega launched, and they didn't have any solid examples yet of where the 8GB card would demonstrate an advantage. Next time I'm on the line with them, I'll see if this situation has changed.

 

[bit_user]

Bit, this is something I tried to get out of AMD when Vega launched, and they didn't have any solid examples yet of where the 8GB card would demonstrate an advantage. Next time I'm on the line with them, I'll see if this situation has changed.

Thanks, Chris.

Back at launch, this was basically new functionality, for a GPU. A year on, 3rd party software developers will have hopefully have had time to start making use of the feature.

@kytokid vents considerable angst about GPU memory vs. scene size, in 3D rendering software. I'd imagine that was one of AMD's target applications, with this feature.

 

[kyotokid]

...if you are working with Iray of Octane, totally worthless..

 

[bit_user]

...if you are working with Iray of Octane, totally worthless..

Because of system memory size?

What would you need to change about the build, to make it more useful?

 

[petersutton213]

"If you're looking to replace Cooler Master's stock case fans with your own, be warned: the enclosure's mounting holes don't line up well with aftermarket 120mm fans. Even the screws bundled with Cooler Master's own MasterFan Pro won't work" And the raidiator length for this case can be an issue............ And yet it's the case you recommend?

 

[FormatC]

It is stable like a rock and finally: it is a workstation, not a gaming toy 😉