AMD Launches The Ryzen Threadripper PRO For Workstations

[wizard69]

Now al AMD needs to do is to get out their Infinity Fabric interfaced CDNA chips and get motherboard manufactures to ass a socket for such chips.

[tildearrow]

At least this means.... finally, a market of motherboards without all the flashy "gaming" trash.

Literally. I cannot find a single Threadripper motherboard without at least one RGB light or the word "gaming" on it.

[fazalmajid]

The Threadripper Pro motherboards won’t be available retail, only in full OEM systems. The Lenovo has a very interesting quad M.2 storage expansion card.

[evasb]

Is AMD trying to drop the "Ryzen" name from Ryzen Threadripper?

[abott]

Just when you think AMD Puts the last bullet in Intel, they pull out another machine gun. This is brutal.

Intel is in actual trouble with how many product-stomping products AMD has unveiled without missing a single beat. And Intel isn't even off the ground with anything competitive yet. Zen 3 in a few months for consumers. It's just not gonna stop any time soon. Even if Intel competes with a complete product relatively soon (10/7nm, new architecture), AMD is gonna stomp them out with core counts. But this time around, they're actually gonna be cores that are decent. It'll be successful redozer/redriver.

Intel is years away from being in a good position. It's actually kinda spooky how bad they look, product-wise.

[BraindeadBZH]

At least this means.... finally, a market of motherboards without all the flashy "gaming" trash.

Literally. I cannot find a single Threadripper motherboard without at least one RGB light or the word "gaming" on it.

BTW I find quite sad that Asus don't understand their market to the point they release Threadripper gaming motherboard and workstation oriented Z490 motherboards (ProArt lineup).

[microcode]

The Threadripper Pro motherboards won’t be available retail, only in full OEM systems. The Lenovo has a very interesting quad M.2 storage expansion card.

What's your source for the "won't be available at retail" claim?

[brouhaha]

I really hope they do become available at retail before too long. I was planning to assemble a workstation using a Xeon W, but I'd much prefer a Thredripper Pro. However, I'm not going to buy a packaged OEM system.

My requirements are ECC RDIMM and LRDIMM support, for a large amount of memory, and high performance out of individual cores, for workloads that can only take advantage of a relatively small number of cores. Until now, the Xeon W was the only processor family that met both requirements.

[sophisticles]

What's your source for the "won't be available at retail" claim?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15910/amd-announces-ryzen-threadripper-pro-workstation-parts-for-oems-only

Honestly, it doesn't matter much, I doubt too many do-it yourselfers would be willing to spend the money of what this monstrosity will cost.

Sell your AMD stock, in 2 year time it will be worth half as much, AMD is on the wrong track with what they are doing.

[zxy_thf]

SP3 probably does not have the energy envelope to support 280W TDP.

No it has. Epyc 7H12 has 280W TDP, and matches all other important tech specs.