{"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":"2020-01-11T12:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T20:51:56","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":"<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9GLzQvNjk3NzkyL29yaWdpbmFsLzUwMC5QTkc1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9GLzQvNjk3NzkyL29yaWdpbmFsLzUwMC5QTkc=[1]\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9GLzQvNjk3NzkyL29yaWdpbmFsLzUwMC5QTkc=[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9GLzQvNjk3NzkyL29yaWdpbmFsLzUwMC5QTkc1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"484\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure 1: AMD Ryzen Threadripper Lineup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9GLzgvNjk3Nzk2L29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMDAuUE5H1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9GLzgvNjk3Nzk2L29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMDAuUE5H[1]\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9GLzgvNjk3Nzk2L29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMDAuUE5H[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9GLzgvNjk3Nzk2L29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMDAuUE5H1_thumb.png\" width=\"644\" height=\"363\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure 2: AMD Ryzen Threadripper Comparison to Intel Skylake-X<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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