Thursday, June 8, 2017

Summer CPU War

Summer CPU War

With both Intel and AMD launching their new flagship desktop CPUs and platforms... consumers can once again re-spark the love for desktop.

These new high-end desktop platforms wont come cheap, but it seems that there is a Cores war. My Cores are bigger and better than yours..... AMD's Threadripper CPU will house 16 cores /32 threads.

Whats more exciting is AMD's platform will allow for 64 lanes of PCI-e 3.0

"Having 64 lanes of PCI Express on Threadripper could be an important differentiation point for the platform, offering the ability to run quad GPUs at full x16 speeds, without the need of any PLX-style bridge chips. You could also combine a pair of x16 graphics cards, and still have 32 lanes left for NVMe storage, 10 GigE networking devices, multi-channel SAS controllers, etc. And that doesn’t include any additional lanes that the X399 chipset may end up providing. We still can’t wait to see what motherboard vendors like ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte create with all that flexibility."


Whats more, the Threadripper price will be very competitive, should give Intel I9 a run for the money.