Hey,
I was amazed when AMD announced general availability of Threadripper Pro - However after a more detailed analysis, I'm not sure where Threadripper Pro fits into the market.
I find that Threadipper Pro is too close to EPYC. Threadipper Pro is basically a single-socket (-P) version of the EPYC F SKUs with slightly higher clocks (probably binned better than EPYC).
Otherweise I see no real difference between EPYC and Threadripper Pro. AMD has locked the overclocking capabilities of Threadripper Pro, so it can't be considered an "enthusiast platform". The only real difference is that Threadripper Pro allows UDIMMs, while EPYC does not (which shows that AMD could easily unlock UDIMM support on EPYC if they wanted).
If overclocking was enabled, I could imagine it being an amazing and flexible enthusiast platform (you can use UDIMMs if you want the best performance, UDIMM ECC / RDIMM if you need ECC and a medium amount of memory or LRDIMM if you need lots of memory).
IMHO: Threadipper Pro should either get overclocking capabilities or be consolidated with EPYC.
What do you think?
I was amazed when AMD announced general availability of Threadripper Pro - However after a more detailed analysis, I'm not sure where Threadripper Pro fits into the market.
I find that Threadipper Pro is too close to EPYC. Threadipper Pro is basically a single-socket (-P) version of the EPYC F SKUs with slightly higher clocks (probably binned better than EPYC).
Otherweise I see no real difference between EPYC and Threadripper Pro. AMD has locked the overclocking capabilities of Threadripper Pro, so it can't be considered an "enthusiast platform". The only real difference is that Threadripper Pro allows UDIMMs, while EPYC does not (which shows that AMD could easily unlock UDIMM support on EPYC if they wanted).
If overclocking was enabled, I could imagine it being an amazing and flexible enthusiast platform (you can use UDIMMs if you want the best performance, UDIMM ECC / RDIMM if you need ECC and a medium amount of memory or LRDIMM if you need lots of memory).
IMHO: Threadipper Pro should either get overclocking capabilities or be consolidated with EPYC.
What do you think?