AMD's New $5000 64 Core / 128 Thread CPU Hits the Market!
Chip manufacturer AMD has just recently released this ABSOLUTE BEAST of a processor featuring an incredible 64 core architecture, which is advertised to be running at 2.9GHz with a boost 4.3GHz clock running on the sTRX4 socket with a 280w TDP. Built on the 7nm process this CPU has the most highest core count on the market currently as well as the highest price tag of any AMD processor so fair in their line up. It's specs are kind of mind blowing but expensive for what it is..
( image above was lifted from newegg.ca )
While the single thread speed is nothing really to write home about the ability to handle properly optimized multi-threaded applications is out of this world. I'd love to see a benchmark of this thing properly cooled and overclocked on a nice board running stable. Unsure if it's possible on this CPU to run all 64 cores at the advertised 4.3Ghz but it very well may be. Also the fact that this CPU is supporting PCI-E 4.0 is neat as well. Can't imagine this thing in a 4 GPU system doing machine learning or something of the like with maxxed out RAM.. Might be bloody insane!
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What do they mean highest price?
My 286 cost $10,000
Wait.. what?!
Maybe it was back before your time.
The original, well known processor was the 8080
the progression:
8080
8088
8086
80286
80386 - pentium.
The 80286 was a monster of a chip. And computers then costs thousands of dollars.
Those 10 MB hard drives were nothing to sneeze at. As big as two CD rom drives bolted together.
I'm born in 88' and have fond early memories of commodore 64 and windows 3.1 as well as old MS-Dos. I've heard of the 286 and likely used them in the past as the old man was a nerd but can't remember off the top of the head.
I remember when ZIP disks came out with a massive 100 MB is portable storage.. Was a hell of an improvement from 3.5" floppies!
Still remember the first time playing Wolfenstien then DOOM too.. Loading it up on multiple floppy disks.. Damn we've come a long way in computing power since they eh?!