AMD Threadripper 3990X Review: Absolute Madness!

[Squid Surprise]

What I wanted to say is that increasing the power budget is not the way to move forward. They need to increase performance WHILE maintaining the previous budget. All this insane increase of real usage plus these useless TDP values serve is that companies can say "we have the fastest CPU". NV does the same thing, they just throw die at it, and then we have "250W" GPUs with 340W real world peaks. Stupid. When will it end? Is there a limit? Or will we have kW CPUs and GPUs in 10 years? All that while the whole world is facing an energy problem? If anything, they should REDUCE TDP values, not increase them.

I predict in 100 years, they’ll be 100 times bigger, twice as fast, and only owned by the 5 richest kings in Europe

 

[bviktor]

I predict in 100 years, they’ll be 100 times bigger, twice as fast, and only owned by the 5 richest kings in Europe

You don't need to be this cynical, back in the day, high end GPUs, like the GeForce4 Ti 4600 consumed only 45W, so we're already close to a 10x increase. And I said nothing about affordability.

 

[metecritical]

Ok First of all it is not "39.5 billion transistors", but "3.95 billion transistors". Billion is 10^9 so really who is the editor of this blog?

 

[neeyik]

Ok First of all it is not "39.5 billion transistors", but "3.95 billion transistors". Billion is 10^9 so really who is the editor of this blog?

One, it's not a blog. Two, the total transistor count of the 3990X is 39.5 billion. Each 8 core 7nm CCD is around 3.9 billion, and there are 8 of those; the 12nm I/O chip is a fraction over 8.3 billion. So that comes to (8 x 3.9) + 8.3 = 39.5 billion.