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Not really, it's kind of a weird entry in the lineup. Due to the dual-NUMA layout of TR it's essentially a pair of 4-cores smushed together, which is essential
by paulmd 8y ago
Not really, it's kind of a weird entry in the lineup. Due to the dual-NUMA layout of TR it's essentially a pair of 4-cores smushed together, which is essentially the worst of all worlds. Desktop users will be better off using the 2700X (same number of cores but on a single NUMA node, and higher clocks), high-core-count users will be better off with the 1920X/1950X or the 2920X/2950X.
The sole advantage is that it's a lot of PCIe lanes for the money, so it can make sense for storage builds that want to address a lot of NVMe, or GPU compute builds that need very little CPU horsepower.
Also, like all TR boards, the motherboards are extortionate. They start at about $350 and go up from there. And that doesn't even buy you a futureproof system - the higher core counts on the TR 2000 series mean that first-gen boards likely won't be able to turbo the new processors, you're running base-clocks.
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- floatboth 8y ago> They start at about $350 and go up from there That's an excellent deal compared to the Talos POWER9 boards :)
- dragontamer 8y ago> The sole advantage is that it's a lot of PCIe lanes for the money, so it can make sense for storage builds that want to address a lot of NVMe, or GPU compute builds that need very little CPU horsepower. That's what I was thinking. The 1900x looks useful for quad-GPU Redshift rendering setups. Its certainly not "mainstream". The 1920x / 2920x is far better bang for your buck. But the price from AMD scales very well. If you're willing to spend bigger bucks on cooling, the 2990WX is great. But 250W TDP is going to be a tough-one to design around. Custom-cooling is probably the answer. Enermax's TR4 AIO turned out to be all sorts of awful, unfortunately. And Noctua's Air coolers cap out at 180W TDP designs.