> AMD has released a salvo by unveiled what are the world's most powerful desktop processors<p>Is it too much to ask that tech journalists proof read their articles before hitting publish?<p>> AMD unveils world's most powerful desktop CPUs<p>This article contains zero benchmarks or anything other than the core count and TDP to substantiate the claim that these are the "world's most powerful desktop CPUs"<p>Can we please stop giving ZDNet impressions for this tripe?<p>The Anandtech article from 4 days ago on the Threadripper announcement at least included AMD's slide deck. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/15062/amds-2019-fall-update" rel="nofollow">https://www.anandtech.com/show/15062/amds-2019-fall-update</a>
It's amazing how AMD, which once seemed a company on their knees, now seems to be kicking Intel's butt, and I find myself worrying about Intel now. Why do they seem to be failing on so many projects? Itanium, Larabee, XScale, the Modem Division? Why is one of the world's largest and most successful CPU companies noncompetitive now on pretty much everything, except their mainstay x86 processor, where they seem to be stalling.<p>Is there something wrong with Intel management/culture that's allowing other firms to run rings around them?
280 Watts TDP! Wow, I think that's a new record for desktop CPUs, although GPUs had reached that a while ago. I wonder how well air coolers work on them, or do they need water cooling for maximum performance? Impressive nonetheless.
It's finally happened. I don't foresee a time where I need more CPU power in my desktop. I could use more memory, faster (and larger) SSDs, faster GPUs with more TCs (althou I'm actually good for that too mostly), more bulk data storage on platter disks but honestly I'm good for CPU for all my needs. Here's why: Most of the cores on my Ryzen 7 are idle most of the time. There are intense periods where I need to compile stuff where they max out but these are relatively short. Cup-of-coffee short. Any gaming activity seems to use no more than 8 cores max. Should I ever need more CPU I don't need an order of magnitude more, I need orders of magnitude more. Those are easily procured through AWS or Azure or some other cloud provider. Same with GPUs. I might make a training run for a NN on my desktop to hypothesis test something that I would then run for longer hours on cloud hardware. It's never going to be cost-efficient for me to scale up with any sort of ownership of the hardware. Of course I'm going to buy the new monster at some point but it will be due to hardware failure, not due to me needing the new shiny.
I’ve been reading that many of the Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs support ECC ram, but motherboards support is shaky at best. Worst is that some motherboards will boot with ECC but don’t actually use it.<p>Does anyone have any concrete experience?<p>I wad hoping to build a workstation with ECC memory, but it appears only the EYPC cpus have certified support for ECC.<p>The Xeon W appears to be the most cost effective for guaranteed ECC memory.