[GTALUG] AMD releases 3100 and 3300x

[Dave Collier-Brown]

AMD did a major re-architecture, with the server "chips" having four 120-thread actual chips communicating through a system controller, just like an old parallel mainframe.  This all fit in one chip carrier: I'd have loved to see how the interconnects worked, but they were pretty closed-mouth about that

They did admit the first generation gave up about 15% when you made two of these coordinate with one another via a cache-consistency chip. I'm waiting to hear about the second generation

I suspect the new low-cost chip is a simplified version of one of the four processor cores, and might cost about 1/5 of what the server chips cost to make.

--dave

On 2020-05-08 10:55 p.m., Nicholas Krause via talk wrote:
Seems AMD is launching around low end processor line:
https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-ryzen-3-3100-and-3300x-review,1.html

Its 120 dollars US for 4 cores/8 threads. According to my research seems to be
equal to a i7700K and those go used for around 300 US. May be a interesting
option for a budget system if your workloads aren't thread heavy.

Seems Intel was really just sitting around after Sandy Bridge for the most part,

Nick


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