What's the advantage of an 8 core threadripper vs Ryzen? Is it memory bandwidth?
Originally Posted by Hans de Vries
Being realistic, how many people using an 8 core AMD system care about pcie lanes though? Like if I have the money for 3 1080 Tis, why wouldn't I purchase a 6950X?
If you want a rig GPU render rig, a cheap (ish) 8 core with 64 (60) lanes may be a better option than a 12 or 16 core. Threadripper, 8 cores or no, should always beat any Intel CPU for a GPU render platform with 60 available lanes.
TBH, I feel it may cut into the Ryzen 7 numbers a little. A few hundo more and you get a much better platform.
Intel 8700k
16GB
Asus z370 Prime
1080 Ti
x2 Samsung 850Evo 500GB
x 1 500 Samsung 860Evo NVME
Swiftech Apogee XL2
Swiftech MCP35X x2
Full Cover GPU blocks
360 x1, 280 x1, 240 x1, 120 x1 Radiators
I don't know ...
But I suspect that all the 'sweetness' was binned Epyc and TR, and the silicon that did not exhibit those high-end characteristics was passed-on down the product stack.
I'm also thinking that 8-core TR, being originally binned for the upper end of the stack, will take a higher clock than has been seen with the 8-core desktop Ryzen.
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