AMD EPYC Launching 20 June, Are You Interested?

[Veerappan]

I'm curious to see how well the zen architecture scales, but I'm definitely not in the target market for this chip. My interest caps out around 8-16 core, after which the frequency trade-off doesn't make as much sense for what I'm doing.

If you have to spend money on the chip, I'd save your money and wait for Vega, or possibly the ThreadRipper launch instead.

[torsionbar28]

Michael, yes yes yes please please please for some EPYC benchmarks! I have 500+ Opteron 6300 cores at work, and 24 Opteron 4300 cores at home. All running Linux. Would love to see how the new stuff compares.

[FireBurn]

You'll end up getting one of these and complain about how bad gaming performance is

[Filiprino]

EPYC 2S workstation, renice.

[qsmcomp]

Any news around CPU temperature reporting in Linux?

Using a MSI board? Try this driver:

https://github.com/groeck/nct6775

[foppe]

The 5 Ghz mark, well we will see if it materializes, Ryzen so far hasn't done that and the early reports indicated that this would be possible..

Kind regards.
B.

Best I've seen is 5.3GHz or so on LN2; on water cooling about 1GHz less.

With regard to compiling on Ryzen, people on the Gentoo forums have been complaining a bit about weird/random segfaults (that I also ran across a few times while building my own kernel), see here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-...start-150.html

[Brutalix]

also threadripper will feature Overclocking (some reported 5ghz with good cooling) and the server models do not feature overclocking.

The 5 Ghz mark, well we will see if it materializes, Ryzen so far hasn't done that and the early reports indicated that this would be possible..

Kind regards.
B.

[Brutalix]

But at what price and at what power consumption? Some Threadripper motherboards seem to have 2x8pin CPU power connectors.
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As with several of the new X299 mbs from Intel, it seems related to the number of PCI-e slots, if more than 5 then its 2 x 8 pin.

Kind regards
B.

[Zucca]

Oh, no! I already bought Ryzen!

Oh no. And even Threadrippers use different socket!
But at what price and at what power consumption? Some Threadripper motherboards seem to have 2x8pin CPU power connectors.

Oh. And also: Hi. \o

[Osmodivs]

Must be a speed demon on Blender.