What do you think about AMD EPYC 64 core CPU

[Jplayz07]

What do you think about AMD´s new processor - 7742 64 Core processor

https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-7742

[Jplayz07]

Personally, I think it´s freaking awesome!!!

I wish I could afford it!

Edited October 22, 2019 by Jplayz07

[spartaman64]

its cool but its not for me and i dont have any use cases that would make it a better cpu than much cheaper ones

[SupaKomputa]

It's awesome, but regular pc users won't use that much power, yet.

[RollinLower]

the tech is awesome, and the fact that AMD is finally pushing back into the server space is amazing aswell.

still tough, what would any normal consumer do with that many cores? i have a 16 core 1950X and i barely use half of them in the most extreme scenario's

[Tan3l6]

Cool, bit redundant for gaming. But who'd use it for gaming?

Must use it for content creation. Rendering stuff etc.

[Windows7ge]

3 simple words:

 

I want it.

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

i barely use half of them in the most extreme scenario's

folding on the side?

[Inversion]

30 gamers 1 CPU?? You could have 30 simulated Ryzen 3 chips on that with 8 threads left over for the server?? Not sure how you'd get 30 GPUs attached though

[RollinLower]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

folding on the side?

yep, that's pretty much what it's doing. tough in PPD per watt it's far too costly to keep running after the event has ended.

[Windows7ge]

5 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

what would any normal consumer do with that many cores?

QEMU virtualization and PCI_e pass-though.

 

...oh wait you said normal consumer...

[GrockleTD]

needs more cores.

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, RollinLower said:

yep, that's pretty much what it's doing. tough in PPD per watt it's far too costly to keep running after the event has ended.

just not as good as GPUs right?

[porina]

I want to have a go overclocking one... assuming they're overclockable at all... otherwise will have to wait for equivalent threadripper.

[JoshB2084]

Now I can playing against 40 AI NASCAR in BeamNG Drive with this, but I thinking it won't gotta be playable smooth at 60FPS.

[hollyh88]

its  cool that amd finally punishes intel for not trying hard enough  
amd really pushes intel to get more cores. but... i jumped their ship when i upgraded from a simple i5 7600 to a ryzen 5 2600x. 
and wont go back to intel. 
i really hope amd will make more money now so they can even research more to get better cpu's

[mariushm]

I'd use one to stream or record (to upload later to youtube) 4K 60fps using x264 software encoding in real time at an event like Games Done Quick or something like that.

Still can't beat x264 when it comes to image quality.