The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
by Ian Cutress on August 6, 2018 9:00 AM ESTWhere are the Benchmarks?
As stated, today AMD is only lifting the lid on what the stuff looks like, as well as speeds and details. This weekend however, AMD France accidentally released some information on the Cinebench R15 speed of the 32-core, giving it a score of 5099 :
My CPU-focused review, using our newest benchmark suite, will be posted on August 13th. I am still iterating our gaming test suite for CPUs with new games and drivers, so that review will be a little later. I am also in the middle of a 30,000 mile set of travels (FMS, Hot Chips, IFA, vacation), along with some Cannon Lake tests to run, and whatever else might launch soon, so please be a little patient. August has never been so busy, honestly.
Where to Pre-Order
If you really want to go ahead and order before looking at the reviews, then we will add some links in here as we get them. Note that retailers will only be taking pre-orders for the 2990WX today, while the 2950X launches at the end of this month, and then the final two chips in October.
| AMD Threadripper 2 Pre-Orders | ||
| Amazon | Newegg | |
| TR 2990WX | $1799 | $1799 |
| TR 2970WX | $1299 | $1299 |
| TR 2950X | $849 | $849 |
| TR 2920X | $649 | $649 |
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edzieba - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
The gate thickness limit was hit around Sandy Bridge time and has stuck even with process node scaling. "Moar Cores" scaling was chopped off at the knees by GPGPU. There's just not many places to go to gain performance without massive power consumption increases (and even that hits areal power density limits as overall process scale shrinks).mapesdhs - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
The irony of all this is that threaded support within application software is generally still pretty terrible, with many pro apps still only using one core. If anything there's much more to gain with better written software, but good programmers are expensive, and these days grud knows where they'd come from given the woeful education standards of many modern edu places, at least in the West anyway. Probably have to poach them from south east Asia, Israel, etc.Alaa - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
Never heard that good programmers exist in Israel.edzieba - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
It's not really a case of 'just program better', dual cores have been commonplace for a decade now: any workload that could be easily threaded has long ago taken those double-performance gains (and quadruple for the now ubiquitous quad-cores). Many tasks simply do not subdivide easily in a way conducive to threading (no good splitting into a bunch of sub-tasks if all depends on results of the previous task). Unlike HPC workloads that fall under Gustafson's Law scaling, desktop workloads are firmly in Amdahl's Law territory.jospoortvliet - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - link
I would say party of the issue is the tools, most programming languages still have not added much multithreaded tools. Rust and go are of course designed for it but they will take time to be adopted. Nice to see Firefox leading here!hetzbh - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
Hmm, lets see..1. They call the TR 2990WX - "for workstation" solutions, yet it doesn't have even a shred of remote management neither on the Chipset nor any motherboard...
2. Pre sales are starting today, yet performance benchmarks are not allowed to be published today, so buy those CPU's based on ... what? hype?
Intel999 - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
@hetzbhWhile early adopters have been known to buy based on hype in the past, they only need to use common sense to pull the trigger on the 2990WX.
Only someone as dense as a rock won't be able to see that they will be getting double digit percentage increases over an Intel alternative that still, comically, costs $200 more.
Oxford Guy - Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - link
Hype? Not really.GPUs often come in around MSRP for preorders then, when things like Ethereum hit, those who preordered saved money. They also avoided shortages.
Plus, there is Ebay to sell on if the item doesn't measure up to your expectations. People will buy anything on Ebay for high prices.
Cooe - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
CPU's are ALWAYS released for pre-order before review embargo's left. AMD AND Intel. Nothing new / worth complaining about here folks.Oxford Guy - Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - link
And, people who buy prerelease items can most likely recoup their money by selling on Ebay if the CPUs or GPUs don't turn out to be all that great.