AMD Ryzen 9 3950x confirmed! 16 cores with 4.7 GHz boost

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/bykach/amd_ryzen_9_3950x_to_become_worlds_first_16core/

No price tag for it yet though

If a 16 core can reach 4.7 GHz then there’s no doubt that anything below it can either :grinning:

I can see a 4.8 ghz maybe 4.9 if lucky binned chip now that this 16 core exists

Edit: Officially announced today

$749 and coming September

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pointless…

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Not for streamers/content creators though

But the fact that 4.7 is on 16 cores is amazing

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As has always been the case, these “wide” processors are more for content creation and/or manipulation than consumption. Video en-/trans-coding, rendering, simulations, mass multitasking, and generic number crunching can all benefit from having access to as many cores as possible, and hobbyists are getting more and more involved with these kinds of thing.

I’ll be very curious to see how these (and the 12-core variant) handle narrow tasks. Last I heard, and this may have just been badly interpreted, was that the memory controller was going to be split for these chips - one channel per CCX. If that’s a hard split, rather than a dynamic one, it could have noticeable performance trade-offs when running narrow.

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The 12 core is already more than enough for most people even in that category and it just eats into the TR sales

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Not really

Threadripper x399 (or maybe x499?) Have 64 pcie lanes, 8 ram slots for heavy rendering workloads, I already expect 48 core threadripper and maybe 64 cores should they be announced

There isn’t going to be a 16 core threadripper anymore thanks to this 3950x so I’m guessing 24 cores would be minimum for threadripper series

Or 32 idk

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There’s still quite a few reasons to buy a 16 core thread ripper. Increased PCIE lanes, Quad Channel memory support, and better binning.

Does this mean TR will get 4.8ghz on their single core boost?

*Edit. Yeah i can see them releasing some sort of 48 core monstrosity this generation (for threadripper).

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I go away for months, come back and You is still here making AMD fanboi threads, nice to see some things don’t change :joy:

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Let me know when the average consumer needs 12 cores, and when the content creators suddenly needs 16 cores but not the other features of HEDT

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Consoles use an older architecture called Jaguar for their CPU. Jaguar is a modified Bulldozer/Piledriver architecture. The only difference I believe is that the L2 cache was shared between 4 cores instead of 2 like the Fx 8150 and Fx 8350.

Anyways, Zen is making it’s way into consoles with the PS5 and the next gen Xbox. From an architecture that shared L2 cache between 4 cores to a 7nm 8 core 16 thread Zen 2 3.2ghz apu. That’s going to be some MASSIVE gains in performance.

This is why most people believe core counts will become more relevant for gaming now.

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Cost is also a major factor for some people. Not everyone has the capital to throw down on a HEDT machine (especially a hobbyist, rather than someone making money off it), in the same way that not everyone has the money to throw down on a dual-socket (or more) server system.

At least with current market prices, the cheapest TR is twice the cost of the most expensive Zen (itself priced higher as it’s a limited edition, since it’s identically spec’ed to the slightly cheaper variant). At the same time, TR4 motherboards start from just under the top of AM4 boards in cost.

If you apply the same (il)logic, who has the need for the extra cores of HEDT but not the other features of EPYC/Xeon? Those who can’t afford the latter, naturally.

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3950x is $749 :grinning:

Coming September

Right now they are showing Extreme OC for the 3950x

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Rx 5700 XT faster than the rtx 2070 for less supposedly

I like the 5700 XT reference cooler not gonna lie

And then there’s a 5700 XT 50th anniversary edition I just saw it not to long ago for $500

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Based on the gaming demos shown during E3 by AMD (CS:GO and Division 2), it looks like their Zen 2 microarchitecture has almost caught up to Intel’s 2015 Skylake microarchitecture in gaming FPS. They only demo’d FPS at 1440p for two 9th gen Intel chips and two Ryzen 3000 series chips, and the new Ryzens were very close, albeit consistently behind.

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16 core gaming CPU?

:rofl:

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Looks like Moore’s law isn’t dead just yet.

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Not made for the average WoW player though

You can but unless you stream/render your videos with cpu it’s not for you

Great for people who don’t want to spend the extra in the HEDT market like Aster said

People buying 12/16 cores and beyond aren’t gaming 100% (which that logic for some reason that never gets through some), there is a market for people who need that many cores :thinking:

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TBH most games run better on intel than AMD. (same reason games built for amd run better on them than intel systems)

also games dont even exist that can USE that many cores.
so faster speed will be better for gaming anyways.

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There’s rumors that Ray tracing might be done with the CPU. Companies like Pixar do all their ray tracing through the cpu.

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These were the demos AMD chose. Division 2 literally shows an AMD promo slide every time it launches.

That’s why I’m not paying to upgrade from my 8th gen Intel 6/12 anytime soon. I’m not going to fall for moar corez.

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that was a general statement. not to what they picked or showed.

as ppl shouldnt.
until games even approach 8 cores anymore is not useful for just gaming.