Takes guts to stick with that core count and at least you get to enjoy the full 70MB of cache. Good thing Blender and Cinebench all fits inside that, not sure you can ever say the same for productivity workloads.
I guess AM4 also means no real improvements on the PCIe lane count: Would love to see real and IF switches to give a bit of flexibility and what they plan for a new Threadripper.
Was busy watching live cast so I only caught up on the X570 bit afterwards :-)
Certainly a big improvement in bandwidth, but without switches the best you can hope for is bifurication. That means a PCIe 3 card will loose you half of the potential bandwidth with no way to recover it.
PCIe switch chips used to be quite common on higher-end motherboards, but these days Avago/Broadcomm seems to have pushed prices beyond reasonable, while I'm not sure they even have a PCIe 4 product.
Of course the Southbridge by itself is actually more of a switch but overall AM4 is just becoming very I/O starved with Ryzen 3.
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platinumjsi - Saturday, June 1, 2019 - link
16 core = end of summerKOneJ - Sunday, May 26, 2019 - link
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/05...GeoffreyA - Sunday, May 26, 2019 - link
These are wonderful times. Thanks, Ian and Gavin, for the live blog as well.hacksquad - Sunday, May 26, 2019 - link
Finally its here!guachi - Sunday, May 26, 2019 - link
These AMD processors look almost too good to be true.shing3232 - Monday, May 27, 2019 - link
No, 2990WX use quad channel and 32core, and it work out okish. Zen2 has larger L3, it would work even better.PixyMisa - Monday, May 27, 2019 - link
That's what we said in 2017.Also way back in 2011, only that time we were right.
abufrejoval - Sunday, May 26, 2019 - link
Takes guts to stick with that core count and at least you get to enjoy the full 70MB of cache. Good thing Blender and Cinebench all fits inside that, not sure you can ever say the same for productivity workloads.I guess AM4 also means no real improvements on the PCIe lane count: Would love to see real and IF switches to give a bit of flexibility and what they plan for a new Threadripper.
msroadkill612 - Sunday, May 26, 2019 - link
The x570 chipset IO is effectively a huge improvement in usable lanes.abufrejoval - Monday, May 27, 2019 - link
Was busy watching live cast so I only caught up on the X570 bit afterwards :-)Certainly a big improvement in bandwidth, but without switches the best you can hope for is bifurication. That means a PCIe 3 card will loose you half of the potential bandwidth with no way to recover it.
PCIe switch chips used to be quite common on higher-end motherboards, but these days Avago/Broadcomm seems to have pushed prices beyond reasonable, while I'm not sure they even have a PCIe 4 product.
Of course the Southbridge by itself is actually more of a switch but overall AM4 is just becoming very I/O starved with Ryzen 3.