threadripper!

[super gnu]

http://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_ben...5_multi_core-1

have you seen that score!!


its gonna cost $999 apparently.

[vlado]

Yes, AMD sent us a Threadripper system a while back.

On the V-Ray benchmark it was slightly less than twice as fast as a Ryzen 7.

Best regards,
Vlado

[super gnu]

can i ask how well it overclocks?

[jasonhuang1115]

Can you put a Nvidia card on the system with AMD CPU and mother board? Or is it not recommended?

[super gnu]

yes you can, it makes no difference whatsoever.. 100% compatible.

[jasonhuang1115]

super gnu, great to know this. Any links to reviews, first hand experience, or comment on this? I would love to take advantage of the threadripper's great c/p value and be able to still use CUDA for RT GPU.

[super gnu]

ive used amd chips with nvidia cards many times in the past (back when amd were kicking intels ass with the athon 64 x2 etc..) im not sure where you get the idea they might be incompatible, ive never heard this even suggested before.

[savage309]

The 3.6 hybrid rendering (CUDA on CPU) works fine on Ryzen/Threadripper as well

Best,
Blago.

[jasonhuang1115]

Awesome! Thanks for the info guys.

[Alex_M]

can i ask how well it overclocks?

Judging by how Ryzen 7 overclocks, I would guess it will have the same if not a bit worse OC capabilities due to the double core count. Note that the advertised 4.0 Ghz boost speed is only applied to one or two cores out of 16, the rest of the cores work at the base clock of 3.4 Ghz. This applies to Intel CPUs too. So AMD only guarantees that you'll get 4.0 Ghz on a couple of cores. 4 Ghz on all 16 cores is not guaranteed if you try to manually set them all to 4 Ghz in BIOS. Either way, it's a beast of a CPU and the price extremely affordable for a 16 core processor. Just a few months ago you would have to pay $1100 for 8 cores. Yay for competition! Good job, AMD.

[werticus]

Thread rippers are due out in about a week, you can pre order them in australia now.

[savage309]

AMD showed V-Ray bench during their SIGGRAPH event https://twitter.com/BluntNate/status/891861955891286017

Best,
Blago.

[Alex_M]

I assume this is without OC but the base clock of 3.4 Ghz? I wonder what the Vray score would be with all 16 cores @ 4.0 Ghz. There's a picture circulating on Reddit that shows 1950x OC'd @ 4.0 Ghz making ~3300 CB in Cinebench. That's ~13% more than it makes without OC. So maybe we can expect around 39 sec. score in Vray benchmark when overclocked? That would be epic performance per dollar. Or should I say epYc. Get it?

[timmatron]

The 3.6 hybrid rendering (CUDA on CPU) works fine on Ryzen/Threadripper as well

Sorry, a bit off topic, but have you tested hybrid rendering on a Ryzen system through distributed rendering? My Ryzen will render hybrid locally, but not over DR. I posted a new topic about this, just wondering if you could tell me that it has been tested to work.

[Paul Oblomov]

Hehe me having 49sec on my 2699v4 ES@2.4Ghz.