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I wasn't been able to get my 2nd gen EPYC 7642 idle under 100W. Most of that power goes to the I/O die. The cores themselves manage their power very well. While
by nagisa 2y ago
I wasn't been able to get my 2nd gen EPYC 7642 idle under 100W. Most of that power goes to the I/O die. The cores themselves manage their power very well. While I have all memory slots as well as a number of PCIe lanes occupied (more than 24 available from the consumer chips, but probably less than 48...,) I routinely think about side-grading to something else just to reduce the idle power consumption.
I would be hard pressed to believe that another EPYC would be able to significantly reduce I/O die power consumption significantly, given that AMD hasn't really made many major changes to it over the generations.
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoThanks, and damn I guess… Maybe I should wait another 18 month cycle
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoSorry… another question - what would you recommend these days for a home machine in an office (i.e not a loud and hot rack but something for a quiet but hugely beefy workstation that’s not $9k per CPU)? Preferably more cores the better since my workload scales horizontally quite well (that’s why I looked at Ampere in the first place a while ago and almost did pull the trigger)