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I was looking to build myself a new (Dual) Xeon workstation, but looking at these specs and performance, I am going to consider threadripper instead. With this
by LeonM 9y ago
I was looking to build myself a new (Dual) Xeon workstation, but looking at these specs and performance, I am going to consider threadripper instead.
With this many threads, ECC support and 64 PCIe lanes this CPU looks perfect for my intended workload. It's also gonna be slightly cheaper than a dual xeon.
Exciting times!
- curiousgal 9y agoWhat workload is that? If I may ask.
- old-gregg 9y agoI am dying to know as well. I have a Ryzen 1700 and my primary workload is compiling Go code, which should, in theory, be fabulously parallel. But in reality it hits all 16 threads maybe for the first 2-3 seconds and then falls back to utilizing only 3-5 cores. Perhaps our project isn't big enough to load up all cores for long...
- floatboth 9y agoLarge C/C++ code bases (Chromium, Firefox, Linux, FreeBSD, whatever) are really good for this, since all C/C++ files can be compiled independently.
- LeonM 9y agoHeavy virtualisation, running complex infrastructures within minikube, loads of data processing for customers. Also occasional hardware synthesis and video editing (but not professionally)
- loeg 9y agoOnly slightly cheaper than a 2P Xeon system?
- hyperbovine 9y agoComparable Broadwell-EP or new Purley chips cost thousands more. They have better features and more cache but price wise these platforms are in different universes.
- loeg 9y agoThat's what I was getting at :-).
- LeonM 9y agoWas not planning on implementing high-end Xeons, I was looking at ~EUR600 per CPU. So total for CPU's would have been slightly more than a 1950X. Also, a dual socket motherboard is also a bit more expensive. In total I think a single CPU 1950X is about 500 euro cheaper. So yeah, 'slightly' was a wrong choice of words.
- sireat 9y agoI am in the same boat, one of my use cases is many many instances of the same application. (100 instances would be good, as I get 70 on my dual socket E5-2670 v1) Only problem when compared to dual socket Xeon E5 solutions up to Broadwell(v4) is support for Windows 7 which is a must for my case. I remain hopeful that it will be possible to run Windows 7 on Threadripper "unoficially". It might take a PS/2 keyboard and a DVD(USB is not supported on Ryzen for Windows 7 without slipstreaming USB drivers) to install but it should be doable.