HW News - Threadripper 3 TDP, Epyc Supercomputer w/ 748, 000 Cores, Aldi Gaming PC
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Date: 2020-05-06
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Peter
Good arguments for the 9900k? With the current prices of RAM I disagree. Spending 50% more to get a few % higher FPS in games at most (see Linus Tech Tips their RAM-testing, CS: Go got a higher FPS on the 3700X than on the 9900k, a much higher power consumption and a lower multithreaded performance and extra security-vulnerabilities. The only good arguments would be the integrated graphics (fair enough, maybe AVX in extreme cases and a lack of software-optimization for AMD in rare cases (Adobe, maybe FFmpeg, WinRAR which nobody should use anyway. All things considered for most people the 3700X would be the logical choice between those two CPU's.
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Good arguments for the 9900k? With the current prices of RAM I disagree. Spending 50% more to get a few % higher FPS in games at most (see Linus Tech Tips their RAM-testing, CS: Go got a higher FPS on the 3700X than on the 9900k, a much higher power consumption and a lower multithreaded performance and extra security-vulnerabilities. The only good arguments would be the integrated graphics (fair enough, maybe AVX in extreme cases and a lack of software-optimization for AMD in rare cases (Adobe, maybe FFmpeg, WinRAR which nobody should use anyway. All things considered for most people the 3700X would be the logical choice between those two CPU's.
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bobhumplick
is an i3 with HT too late? well its late for sure. way to late. but at least its here now i guess. thats one way to look at it. but for sure intel should have done this a long time ago. ive always said something like the 6th gen being 6 cores (not i3 but i5 and i7) and the 8th gen being 8 cores (again i5 and i7. actually that would be the least they could do. adding more cores. they really should have made the 6th gen 6 cores and then maybe had icelake cores on the 8th gen. either way that would have been intel progressing their lineup. and these shortage problems would have been encountered earlier and they could be long out of the way.
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is an i3 with HT too late? well its late for sure. way to late. but at least its here now i guess. thats one way to look at it. but for sure intel should have done this a long time ago. ive always said something like the 6th gen being 6 cores (not i3 but i5 and i7) and the 8th gen being 8 cores (again i5 and i7. actually that would be the least they could do. adding more cores. they really should have made the 6th gen 6 cores and then maybe had icelake cores on the 8th gen. either way that would have been intel progressing their lineup. and these shortage problems would have been encountered earlier and they could be long out of the way.
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mpeugeot
LMFAO, I remember when I decided to build a super computer for myself (and even broke onto the top 100 list of publicly acknowledged super computers at the time. It didn't have 748, 000 cores; it had 64 cores (which in 1999 was actually impressive) across 32 Abit BP6 motherboards utilizing a switched 100 MBps backbone. I am quite sure that my Ryzen 7 1700 4 GHz would destroy that entire Beowulf cluster all by itself with not even a small sweat. That said, comparing my 8 cores to the 748, 000 cores in Archer 2 seems even more pathetic! I need cubic dollars like the government has in order to have nice toys.
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LMFAO, I remember when I decided to build a super computer for myself (and even broke onto the top 100 list of publicly acknowledged super computers at the time. It didn't have 748, 000 cores; it had 64 cores (which in 1999 was actually impressive) across 32 Abit BP6 motherboards utilizing a switched 100 MBps backbone. I am quite sure that my Ryzen 7 1700 4 GHz would destroy that entire Beowulf cluster all by itself with not even a small sweat. That said, comparing my 8 cores to the 748, 000 cores in Archer 2 seems even more pathetic! I need cubic dollars like the government has in order to have nice toys.
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depth386
Archer2. I can t help but wonder: For a supercomputer crunching some super paralellized problem with this obscene number of CPU Cores, is there any reason they wouldn t just use GPUs instead? Like RX580 and Navi has 40CU, recent Nvidia have 48SM, Vega 56 and 64 are self-explanatory. It would cost a lot less than these Epyc CPUs. I imagine maybe they re doing something GPUs are not good at or they want more versatility for working on different kinds of problems. Still, the difference in price forced me to explore this curiosity here. I look forward to intelligent replies.
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Archer2. I can t help but wonder: For a supercomputer crunching some super paralellized problem with this obscene number of CPU Cores, is there any reason they wouldn t just use GPUs instead? Like RX580 and Navi has 40CU, recent Nvidia have 48SM, Vega 56 and 64 are self-explanatory. It would cost a lot less than these Epyc CPUs. I imagine maybe they re doing something GPUs are not good at or they want more versatility for working on different kinds of problems. Still, the difference in price forced me to explore this curiosity here. I look forward to intelligent replies.
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sandflesh
way off topic but. will there be a point when we no longer need dedicated storage? . would it be possible to engineer a hybrid RAM/SSD. knowing that if you tried to use an SSD as ram it would probably hit its max read/write rather quickly. and using ram as an HDD (ramdisk) only works until you shut it down. there has to be a way to design a chip that can handle both. to me it seems like there would be a way to eliminate the ram and storage and make it a single thing.
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way off topic but. will there be a point when we no longer need dedicated storage? . would it be possible to engineer a hybrid RAM/SSD. knowing that if you tried to use an SSD as ram it would probably hit its max read/write rather quickly. and using ram as an HDD (ramdisk) only works until you shut it down. there has to be a way to design a chip that can handle both. to me it seems like there would be a way to eliminate the ram and storage and make it a single thing.
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Krydolph
Im 37 now. And I remember back when I went to high school Aldi was selling PC's too (In Denmark) And they were surprisingly good for what they were. If you were tight on the money and couldn't build your own, they were worth picking up. That kind of PC's always cuts corners, but they were not as bad as many other, and the price was fair. They were also called Medion btw - That is Aldis brand for electronics.
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Im 37 now. And I remember back when I went to high school Aldi was selling PC's too (In Denmark) And they were surprisingly good for what they were. If you were tight on the money and couldn't build your own, they were worth picking up. That kind of PC's always cuts corners, but they were not as bad as many other, and the price was fair. They were also called Medion btw - That is Aldis brand for electronics.
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bBrain
Literally. no one cares about threadripper (or Intel xeons. The amount of watchers that will even ever touch one is far less than 1%, I'd be willing to say less then. 5% of viewership. lol I work with xeon servers and I don't even care to hear about them. LOL I mean, who cares. lots of slow cores. whooo look at my database server goooooo. /rant. Just kidding steve, love the production work you do.
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Literally. no one cares about threadripper (or Intel xeons. The amount of watchers that will even ever touch one is far less than 1%, I'd be willing to say less then. 5% of viewership. lol I work with xeon servers and I don't even care to hear about them. LOL I mean, who cares. lots of slow cores. whooo look at my database server goooooo. /rant. Just kidding steve, love the production work you do.
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SIC66SIC66
I remember Aldi selling pc's in parts of Europe, in the Pentium 4 era. They were very cheap, people actually were almost sleeping in front of the stores to get one. And the funny thing was that they often used parts with names that didnt actually exist, like a Radeon 9600 TX, with lower clocks than normal 9600 versions. Those pc's were also Medions
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I remember Aldi selling pc's in parts of Europe, in the Pentium 4 era. They were very cheap, people actually were almost sleeping in front of the stores to get one. And the funny thing was that they often used parts with names that didnt actually exist, like a Radeon 9600 TX, with lower clocks than normal 9600 versions. Those pc's were also Medions
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Eric
I was looking through some of your older videos. The newer stuff looks phenomenal. It's stuff that I'd never really noticed in the videos, but the nice new sets are visually pleasing. You've really improved the production quality. I just wanted to say that the subtle changes have been an improvement. Thanks for striving to deliver top-quality videos.
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I was looking through some of your older videos. The newer stuff looks phenomenal. It's stuff that I'd never really noticed in the videos, but the nice new sets are visually pleasing. You've really improved the production quality. I just wanted to say that the subtle changes have been an improvement. Thanks for striving to deliver top-quality videos.
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Dizzy
lol Just because Intel responds to a rumor, doesn't mean that what they are saying is the truth. They are known to lie straight to people's faces anyway, so I wouldn't even take their refutation of this rumor at face value, even if the source was cross-verified. I won't trust a word they say until I actually see it. Same with any other company.
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lol Just because Intel responds to a rumor, doesn't mean that what they are saying is the truth. They are known to lie straight to people's faces anyway, so I wouldn't even take their refutation of this rumor at face value, even if the source was cross-verified. I won't trust a word they say until I actually see it. Same with any other company.
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