Friday, August 27th 2021
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5945WX and 5995WX Surface
AMD is looking to launch a substantial lineup of HEDT and workstation processors before the end of 2021, based on its latest "Zen 3" microarchitecture. These processors are categorized in two distinct lines—the Ryzen Threadripper 5000X targeting HEDTs, and the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000WX targeting workstations. Both are based on different sockets, sTRX4 and sWRX8, respectively, with the latter featuring 8-channel DDR4 memory, compared to the former's 4-channel. Two Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000WX series chips surfaced on the Milky Way@Home distributed computing database, the 5945WX and 5995WX.
The application identifies the 5945WX as a 12-core/24-thread processor, while the 5995WX is the top-dog 64-core/128-thread part. AMD maintains lower core-count Threadrippers to target the section of the market that seeks I/O capabilities over core-counts (memory bandwidth, a large number of PCIe lanes supporting NVMe RAID or multiple AIC compute accelerators, etc,). The lower core counts also come with higher CPU clock-speeds, benefiting less-parallelized applications. At this point it's not known if the Threadripper 5000 family features the conventional "Zen 3" CCD chiplet, or the new "Zen 3+" chiplets with 64 MB 3D Vertical Cache (3DV cache), but the company is planning to monetize the new chiplet across its EPYC enterprise line as the additional cache benefits certain applications with large streaming data-sets. It's conceivable that the Threadripper Pro series could benefit from 3DV cache, too.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
The application identifies the 5945WX as a 12-core/24-thread processor, while the 5995WX is the top-dog 64-core/128-thread part. AMD maintains lower core-count Threadrippers to target the section of the market that seeks I/O capabilities over core-counts (memory bandwidth, a large number of PCIe lanes supporting NVMe RAID or multiple AIC compute accelerators, etc,). The lower core counts also come with higher CPU clock-speeds, benefiting less-parallelized applications. At this point it's not known if the Threadripper 5000 family features the conventional "Zen 3" CCD chiplet, or the new "Zen 3+" chiplets with 64 MB 3D Vertical Cache (3DV cache), but the company is planning to monetize the new chiplet across its EPYC enterprise line as the additional cache benefits certain applications with large streaming data-sets. It's conceivable that the Threadripper Pro series could benefit from 3DV cache, too.
8 Comments on AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5945WX and 5995WX Surface
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needswants the PCIe lanesThe smallest version is good enough ;)
But i fear the price will be somewhat of an issue for a home user xD
And then i could post can you play games on it : yes / NO NEVVA :D
16-core with only 24 PCIe lanes, dual channel memory, ECC somewhat supported (non-registered only, so no server RAM): $799 + motherboard (let's assume $300), total $1100
16-core with 128 PCIe lanes, octochannel memory and qualified ECC support (both registered and unregistered): $1149 + motherboard (let's assume $800), total $1950. Memory isn't necessarily any more expensive either since it can run both unregistered and registered memory meaning it can run both desktop and server memory.
If you have a usecase for the extra lanes and/or extra memory, or need qualified ECC memory support, TR Pro is a damn good deal. I'm eyeing up the 16-core Zen 3 part myself to swap out my 5950X.