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caffeinade on 08 June 2018
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JEMC said:
caffeinade said:
"Valve opens up its Steam gates to all developers, will only ban “illegal” or “trolling” games"
Wonderful.

So how about the high core count CPUs announced by Intel and AMD.
Yeah, they're pretty much just server chips, but it is still pretty cool.
32 cores for desktops, what a time to be alive.
Apparently not all four dies will have direct access to RAM.
Obviously the 28 core Intel chip won't be running at 5GHz when you take it home.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12906/amd-reveals-threadripper-2-up-to-32-cores-250w-x399-refresh
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12893/intels-28core-5-ghz-cpu-coming-in-q4

That Intel chip needed a lot of cooling, and I do really mean a lot:

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/that-28-core-cpu-that-intel-showed-at-computex-it-needs-some-cooling.html
Early this week Intel announced its 28-core processor at Computex. A remarkable achievement all by itself. They had been able to clock it towards 5 GHz even, boasting a CB 7334 Cinebech score. However, as it now turns out, that CPU needed a bit of cooling.
In fact, the processor was cooled with an industrial chiller. So Intel after the demos quickly dismantled the setup as they had previously installed the 28-core chip on Gigabyte and ASUS demo systems earlier that day. After a few hours, these photos (and I honestly do not know who took it as it went viral everywhere, but credits to you man) have been posted on the web.

I mean, we all understand that 28 cores will need a bit of cooling, but I wasn't expecting that! It's a bit hard to see but that is a Hailea HC chiller and also spotted, a 1600 Watt power supply. 1 That water chiller pumps 1500-4000 liters per hour and uses R124 refrigerant to cool down the coolant towards 4 degrees Celsius. If you look up the specs, it has a cooling power of 1770W. The motherboard was using a lga3647-socket, which is a Xeon processor socket. That's industrial heavy duty cooling. Reportedly the unlocked 28-core proc was a Xeon Platinum Skylake-SP processor. That proc with its default 2.5 GHz clocks does just over 200 Watts in power draw under stress. Try to imagine the numbers when overvolted and tweaked to 5 GHz. In all fairness, it is 28 cores at that frequency.

 

As for the AMD processor, well, it was kind of expected, right? The current Threadripper CPUs have 2x 8-core dies with two dummy modules, so with the jump to a smaller and more efficient process it makes sense to get rid of the dummy parts and put another 2x 8-core parts in it. What is a surprise is that not all cores will be able to access the RAM, at least at the same time. It won't be good for its performance.

Yes, I already knew this.
5GHz on 28 cores (all core) is insane.
We aren't there yet.

24/32 core Threadrippers was the obvious next step, but I am still happy to see them announced.
The memory thing sucks, but it seemed unavoidable.
AMD probably made the right call there.
Hey, you need to leave something for Epyc.