well i almost bought a 7980xe this month.., decided to wait a while first... glad i did! holy moly look at that :)

[super gnu]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyl.../#18cbfee14ba3

[glorybound]

I saw that, too. It'll probably be a $10,000 chip. AMD just announced something today, as well. I think it was a 32 core thread ripper.

[super gnu]

hehe yeah just saw it. exciting times in the cpu space (for us at least.. those gamers must be finding it harder and harder to justify their top-end kit - i doubt there is a single game that shows even a 1fps difference between 16 cores and 32)

i also doubt that intel chip will be anything like 10k . im guessing at $2k or thereabouts. they have to be marginally competitive with threadripper after all. however what that will do to sales of their $10k xeon chips cant be good for the bottom line.

[Ihno]

i also doubt that intel chip will be anything like 10k . im guessing at $2k or thereabouts. they have to be marginally competitive with threadripper after all. however what that will do to sales of their $10k xeon chips cant be good for the bottom line.

I've read it will be around 400$ but its limited. The price might explode very quickly.
Edit: Wrong I was confusing it with the 8086k sorry

[numerobis]

[super gnu]

so both Intel and AMD are desperate to win it seems.. the 28 core 5 ghz demo from intel was done with a phase-change refrigerator cooling the cpu sub-zero.. hardly a daily driver.

and the 32 core threadripper is a 32 core epyc chip with half of the 8 memory controllers nerfed so itll work with the current threadripper motherboards (which only support quad channel memory ) this means that 16 of the 32 cores have no direct memory access and must access it through the memory controllers on the other blocks of cores. what affect that has on performance is anyones guess but its hardly ideal.

[super gnu]

ahhaha.. look at the state of the system intel was using:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12907...u-need-to-know

29 phase power section with 3 high speed fans and a cooler that looks like 3x cpu coolers, just for the mobo

and a 1700watt waterchiller

plus connections for an extra 600w of power to the cpu above what the motherboard can provide

basically its a nuclear reactor .

"heres the pc you could have, if you dont mind the power consumption of a small town, and motherboard the size of texas, and a price that would make a saudi prince go pale.

[psanitra]

Yeah, both are quite desperate attempts , pretty much just marketing showsoff, with little to no actual progress. It seems we going to be stuck at 14nm tech from intel for another year :/ , just pumping more juice into same designs and let users deal with heat.
placing 750W heater near my workdesk?, thank you i`ll pass