AMD Threadripper Pro 5000 przybywa, by ponownie zmiażdżyć Xeon

AMD looks to again turn the screws on Intel's Xeon chips with a new Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000-series of workstation CPUs that it claims will be far more efficient and faster than Intel's best.

Zbudowany na tych samych rdzeniach Zen 3, co jego wielokrotnie nagradzane procesory Ryzen 5000 do komputerów stacjonarnychdługo oczekiwane chipy Threadripper Pro będą dostępne w pięciu różnych wersjach, od 12 do 64 rdzeni – podała firma. Procesory z serii Pro nadal oferują obsługę 8-kanałowej pamięci DDR4, podobnie jak poprzednia seria 3000.

New to the lineup is a 24-core Threadripper Pro that wasn't available in the previous 3000-based offerings. The big news is the move from the previous Zen 2-based cores to the latest Zen 3 cores.

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Those cores feature the same base 8-core CCD structure as the previous design, wherein eight cores cores share 32MB of cache versus the previous 4-core CCD design that shared 16MB among the compute cores. The good news is that the new Ryzen Threadripper Pro chips still dominate the competition, AMD claims, and it's not like the older Threadripper Pro needed much help either. Unlike desktop and laptop PCs, where Intel has fielded its newest 12th-gen CPUs using its Golden Cove performance cores, Intel's workstation CPUs continue to be built on the Sunny Cove cores Intel originally released in its 10th-gen Ice Lake laptop CPUs.

Although built on a 10nm process, the 10th-gen Ice Lake did improve upon the even older 14nm CPUs but was hampered by a low ceiling in clock speeds. Combine the relatively low clock speed of Intel's top Xeon W-3375 and a relatively low count of 38-cores, and you get Threadripper Pro 5000 easily dunking on Intel's CPUs like it's 2021 all over again.

Na przykład AMD twierdzi, że Threadripper Pro 5995WX jest do 40 procent szybszy w kompilacjach Unreal Engine, 58 procent szybszy w Adobe After Effects i 95 procent szybszy w Chaos V-Ray.

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Niezadowolony ze zdobycia przyłożenia i swobodnego zejścia z boiska, AMD uderza piłką, a następnie wykonuje taniec w strefie końcowej przez pięć minut, zapewniając o 26 procent większą wydajność w PTC Creo, 58 procent większą wydajność w Solidworks i 200 procent większą wydajność występ w Keyshot.

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It's been so ugly for Intel in workstations the last few years that AMD is citing a commanding 60 percent market share for workstations. That's a reversal from AMD's experience in the consumer market, where despite the company's impressive strides in consumer desktops and laptops, it still has minority marketshare. AMD said its success in workstations has lead companies to actually optimize software for Threadripper, which has boosted its performance over Xeon even more. For example, in Ansys mechanical simulation, optimized performance has lead to a 2.3x performance improvement, while Autodesk's Arnold delivered a 200x—not 200 percent—bump using the same CPU and GPU.

AMD w dalszym ciągu przechwala się, że pojedynczy 64-rdzeniowy Threadripper Pro 5995WX może przewyższyć nie jeden Intel Xeon Platinum 8280, ale dwa z nich, oferując jednocześnie lepszą wydajność energetyczną.

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Where's regular Threadripper?

This all sounds amazing, but obviously Threadripper Pro is aimed straight at professionals, what with its 8-channel DDR4 support and limited availability to DIYers. This time around, AMD will initially launch Threadripper Pro exclusively in a Lenovo ThinkStation P620 workstation, with additional OEM workstations shipping later on. That means Threadripper Pro is unlikely to make it into the hands of DIYers initially, but that doesn't mean never. Remember, the previous OEM-only Threadripper Pro W3995X did eventually go on sale to DIYers. In fact, if you have $6,100, you can drop it on a 64-core Threadripper Pro dzisiaj na Amazonie.

Not everyone needs eight channels of DDR4 though, so if you're wondering where the more pedestrian Threadripper and its 4-channel DDR4 is, AMD isn't saying. Today's launch is strictly focused on the Threadripper Pro lineup—the future of the Threadripper for the rest of us is remains cloudy. One question that's overlooked in speculation about a more affordable Threadripper, is that there may simply be no demand for it.

Ci, którzy naprawdę potrzebują 32 lub 64 rdzeni, prawdopodobnie potrzebują także szalonej ilości pamięci RAM i szalonej przepustowości pamięci, więc AMD może mieć trudności z uzasadnieniem inwestycji w „zwykłe” chipy Threadripper dla tak niszowej publiczności .