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I really hope the 3000-series Threadripper is 8-channel like its server counterpart. 8 16GB DIMMs gets you 128GB, and a significant amount of memory bandwidth.

I really hope the 3000-series Threadripper is 8-channel like its server counterpart. 8 16GB DIMMs gets you 128GB, and a significant amount of memory bandwidth. You also have enough PCI-E lanes to either stripe or partition your I/O in such a way to work around any major bottlenecks.

AstralStorm 7y ago
There will be a new socket for 8 channel ones. sWRX8. These are not unlocked and essentially baby version of Epyc.
kllrnohj 7y ago
It's definitely going to start at quad-channel + 64 PCI-E lanes like the existing sRT4 platform as it's almost certainly going to have sTR4 socket-compatible SKUs. Rumors are there will also be an 8-channel + 128 lane one as well. Supposedly the quad-channel will be the platform with overclocking support, the more "enthusiast" platform, and the 8-channel one will really more be the workstation platform. https://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/3510-hw-news-threadripper-8-channel-4-channel-leaks https://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/3510-hw-news-threadrippe...
bluecalm 7y ago
My biggest hope is that you will be able to get 256 or 512GB of RAM with those. The biggest limitation for the previous one for me in comparison to Xeons was that you could only got 128GB of RAM.