{"id":1215,"date":"2017-07-31T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:21:52","slug":"amd-ryzen-threadripper-hedt-on-august-10-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/amd-ryzen-threadripper-hedt-on-august-10-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD Ryzen Threadripper HEDT on August 10, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have been thinking about buying\/building a new desktop development\/testing machine that has enough resources to run multiple concurrent large virtual machines or a large SQL Server workload, you might want to consider an AMD Ryzen Threadripper-based machine.<\/p>\n

AMD is doing a hard launch of this processor family on August 10, 2017. The two high-end models in the lineup (the 16-core Threadripper 1950X and the 12-core Threadripper 1920X) will be available immediately, while the lower-end Threadripper 1900X will be available on August 31, 2017.<\/p>\n

Unlike Intel, all of these Threadripper processor SKUs are going to be able to access all of the resources of the new AMD X399 chipset-based motherboards, such as eight DDR4 memory slots, multiple M.2 slots, and 64 PCIe 3.0 lanes (although four are reserved for the chipset).<\/p>\n

These processors are also significantly less expensive than similar core count Intel Skylake-X HEDT processors. Their single-threaded performance is probably not as good as Intel, but the gap is not that large. Figures 1 and 2 have some more details.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1: AMD Ryzen Threadripper Lineup<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Figure 2: AMD Ryzen Threadripper Comparison to Intel Skylake-X<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have been thinking about buying\/building a new desktop development\/testing machine that has enough resources to run multiple concurrent large virtual machines or a large SQL Server workload, you might want to consider an AMD Ryzen Threadripper-based machine. AMD is doing a hard launch of this processor family on August 10, 2017. The two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,20],"tags":[351],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amd","category-sql-server-hardware","category-intel","tag-amd-threadripper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}