amd fans i know it's a little hard when you're losing you just had alder like
desktop parts come out with all kinds of crushing performance especially down at that lower end
you had older like laptop cpus come out that are so fast they're even giving the mac m1 a
run for the money that's how fast they are you're going i need some good news here
i need something gordon that i can go onto twitter and i can just get in that intel fans face
and just just tweak them well that moment is here it is of course amd's new ryzen threadripper
pro 5000 series it is of course the awesome zen three cores put into thread ripper pro bad news
if you're looking for the non-pro parts that are actually sort of the high-end desktop parts that
some people actually did buy that are enthusiasts that's not here it's not really clear what is
going on there have been rumors that that may not even show up the good news is for people who do
want real professional workstations you got that here with the ryzen 5000 pro bang 64 cores zen
3 new cores better ccd clusters also higher boost clocks you're now able to get up to 4.5 gigahertz
with ryzen 5000 and yes you still get your insane amounts of pcie 4.0 lanes how many gordon 120
lanes way more power efficient one single 64 core threadripper pro 5995x gives you 67
lower power per core 39 rendering and twice the power efficiency of two 28 core
xeon platinum 8280 cpus that's two zeons that one thread ripper is faster in good news there
and of course the good news is there's five chips last time we only got four the addition here is
one more 24 core chip yay if you don't need it if you just really need it on 24 cores
of course the bad news for intel is the best intel has that can go up against it is the w3300 series
that's built on ice lake yes iceland you don't even know what i say is iceland was originally
introduced with the original 10th gen mobile cpus it was a very good cpu mostly because ryzen hadn't
come out yet ryzen 5000 hadn't come out yet and also it was a huge improvement over their previous
uh 8th gen mobile cpus which kind of stunk one weakness of that 10th gen ice lake cpu didn't hit
high clocks and it's not hitting high clocks here so the very best uh w 3300 the boost clock is 4
gigahertz versus 4.5 gigahertz yes ryzen actually has a better boost clock over intel that's just
simply not always true uh and that sort of adds up to the general slam dunking here like
here's some really good news so you can argue on it about twitter after effects 1.6x chaos v-ray 2x
autodesk maya 1.25 x faster there's way more other numbers where a 64 core cpu against a 38 core cpu
gives you all kinds of stuff to crush them over go look it up but actually in actual reality what's
very nice for amd is in 60 of workstations are now shipping with amd cpus that's crazy and what
that brings is developer is now going hey you're actually the majority market share cpu we're now
going to optimize for you it would be kind of like a reversal of what we see with desktop and laptops
where most developers they really optimize for intel because intel is still the majority cpu
on laptops and desktops with workstations it's actually reversed with 60 being threadripper now
and that's led to a lot of improvements like 2.3x improvement in an assist mechanical a
200x improvement in autodesk arnold and a a 5x improvement in after effects so basically it's
like a reverse bizarro world where hey we only care about threadripper performance so we're going
to work on that so well you haven't been able to enjoy that in desktops and laptops necessarily
you are now able to enjoy it in workstations let's be real internet if you are a gamer you should
not buy this part and if you're in the diy crowd remember these are meant to be sold to big oems
lenovo dell hp eventually and built and sold to big corporations they're not made for you to buy
on new egg out of an open box and integrate into your own machine they're not really meant for that
that kind of happened is in a gray area previously but don't expect it to happen
immediately here so now is the time where we pull the standard internet maneuver of comparing it
to old parts that is a new part can't be compared to an old part example it's not fair to compare
threadripper 5000 against a very old uh isolate core or 14 nanometer cascade late core
of course most people say well that's because you ain't got nothing newer but that's not hard
works the internet the bad news for amd though is intel is actually going to be introducing
that awesome uh core that you're seeing in alder lake the performance cores that you're
seeing in alder lake desktops and laptops that is going to go into workstations and
servers very soon in a chip called sapphire rapids when that shows up it might make this little bit
more of a battle for amd and threadripper 5000 but of course it ain't here yet so in here and now
if you're working at shell oil or pixar pick up that phone dial the it manager and say
i want a brand new lenovo think station p620 because it's got the brand new threadripper
5000 64 core zen 3 core get that to me now what do you mean we don't buy they're not a vendor of ours
well uh the good news is uh the other workstation makers will eventually have this as well but right
now it's only lenovo so that's where you're gonna find it how much is it i don't know in fact it's
not provided to me because it'll be an oem only thing you are not going to buy these cpus on the
shelf generally and install them on your desktops that is not for you if you want to buy this for
your gaming rig don't do it but it's still fun to talk about and it's still fun to argue about