AMD's 32 Core FU to Intel - Threadripper 2990WX First Look
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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their hydro series pro liquid coolers at the link below all right so when we
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arrived in AMD's uh i don't know hall or whatever whatever this place is
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this demo frankly it sucked um i mean they were showing off their wraith
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ripper cooler which will be available separately for their threadripper 2 cpus
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it's got a 120 millimeter fan and i mean really the notable thing here is that
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it's a 32 core processor under there and it's air-cooled
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but it didn't even have any cables plugged into the back and we couldn't we
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couldn't play with it at all so i was like
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really you guys i mean come on you know like come on and they
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were like okay Linus for you
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so guess what we actually get to show you guys not what it's called not what
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speeds it's clocked at or anything like that because this is still early stages
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stuff but they are saying that it's going to be 12 nanometer it's going to
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be up to 32 cores and 64 threads though
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we don't know the exact other core configurations that might be available
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we do know that it's going to have all the same extra tech built into it as
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ryzen second generation so that includes their new boost algorithm and all that
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kind of stuff although when you don't know the clock speeds then you can't know the boost speed so performance is
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very much tbd and what we also know is that it's going to be tr4 socket
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compatible and a drop in replacement for
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your x399 system with a BIOS update
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finally they agreed to let us run
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blender on it so we can see yes in fact
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this is real hardware i think i hit the right hotkey hold on f12 go yes
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so this is real hardware 32 cores
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64 thread so that is four by eight
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times two and look at it rip so this is a custom
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AMD scene you guys aren't going to be able to render this at home and
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extrapolate the performance of it because there's still a lot of work to
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be done before this is released sometime in q3 of this year but if you
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guys were hoping for you know AMD to one-up the
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core enthusiast overclockable processor
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that they showed off last year well then
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yeah that's the plan 32 cores and yes it
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will also be overclockable
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also of note is finally an actual card
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so there's a vega nano follow-up to their previous nano card um i don't
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actually know too much about the specs of this one i think it's like kind of vega 56 based
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uh three display ports HDMI anyway what actually caught my eye other than
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threadripper 2 of course was this see this like pile of laptops and then
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like also this more laptops AMD finally has a
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compelling enough mobile CPU that they
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are winning a serious number of designs
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with third-party manufacturers everyone from uh there's a huawei unit on the
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other side there dell oh this is interesting this is the
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first ever AMD CPU in a dell business
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latitude notebook this one's a little bit chunky and businessy this is the one
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that really stood out to me this is the hp envy x360
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13 and it is a super slim and yet fairly
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beefy little unit so you got your usb over here you got your cooling vent here
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micro sd it's man this thing is crazy thin over here you've got a volume
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rocker type c and another usb a and then of course
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because it's part of their x360 line you can convert it into a tablet should you
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see fit now it goes up to a ryzen 7 2700u that is a quad core eight thread
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processor and its vega 10 graphics is
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apparently running at the full 15 watt TDP of this chip so the performance of
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it will actually be very similar pretty much identical to its 14 inch and 15
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inch brethren probably the most notable thing about this
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is that this notebook is an AMD exclusive
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for years at the very best AMD got kind of a
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hopefully very similar equivalent to the Intel unit but
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apparently hp is so confident in this design that they built a laptop right
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around AMD's product which is like i
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mean threadripper is cool but this
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is where a microchip processor makes real money and takes real market share
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from their competitor speaking of taking market share from
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whatever which way is it going which way should go no
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he got away