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caffeinade said:

JEMC said:

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
*no need to quote this again*

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.

It's not just insane, but almost a false advertising. Intel can't launch that processor at that demoed speed, so all that was just smoke. Pretty, but useless smoke. The final product will only reach half that speed, and I don't know for how long before throttling back.

As for Threadripper vs Epyc, it's a problem AMD created by themselves. They could have gone with 6-core processors for the base of TR, giving us a fast and capable 12-core CPU that yes, Intel could have fought back "easily", but AMD would still have the price advantage anyway.

But in any case, Epyc is an enterprise class CPU, with extra security measures, so there shouldn't be any problem within those two products.