AMD launches its Epyc server chip to take on Intel in the data center

[HumanAbyss]

They should have called this "Epoch".

A new AMD Epoch.

Sounds menacing to the hold nvidia/intel have.

[CirclesofJerk]

this is epyc xD

[ithon]

[QUOTE=patq911;52386278]That infinity fabric was a genius design. 4 basically ryzen 7s in 1 epyc CPU all interconnected nearly flawlessly (it's not perfect of course). and they even have infinity fabric between two sockets.

so 32 cores, 64 threads (edit: 64 cores 128 threads for two sockets!) all connected together extremely well.

AMD really played to their strengths here, they developed this modular system while intel literally has to make whole dies to get more cores. bigger dies = more expensive and more chance for manufacturing failure.[/QUOTE]

you made me think about it and came up with a question, am I reading this right FP that infinity fabric allows for external CPUs so I could had an epyc on the pci slot like a gpu?
wouldn't that mean it's possible for a 4 or more epyc cpu machine that's not a cluster?

[someguyihate]

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;52385486]Threadripper will be for you, not epyc[/QUOTE]

Limited to single socket though, which isnt great for a workstation machine.

[QUOTE=download;52385553]I didn't think anyone still used CPUs for rendering.[/QUOTE]

I primarily do gpu rendering, but the main industry standard renderers are still cpu based. Also a lot of simulation software like houdini is still heavily cpu based so it'd be beneficial in that area too