What Are The Most Advanced Central Processing Units and Graphics Processing Units?

[winterfate101]

I'm really curious! I've been seeing and hearing a lot of talk about how hard it is to find, much less PAY for, a personal computer that is able to swiftly and accurately render things like advanced simulations with like, a BAJILLION particles interacting with each other. Anybody feel like laying down some math and science on this stuff?

[Ordinarily_Greater]

answering the title, supercomputer parts are the beast in computing world

[Canada EH]

Most Advanced CPU's will be Ice Lake 10nm

 

Xeon E3-12xx v6 Kaby lake Xeons

 

and for AMD threadripper

[Damascus]

Depending on the task it's probably EPYC (AMD) or quad platinum xeons in compute clusters

[wasab]

Supercomputers are mostly just thousands of xenon cpus hook to a central server. It is not one cpu. If you want the most advance single cpu, well, there is always the quantum computer in which only one atom is doing all the computations but that is a far way off and no way does it qualify as a “personal computer”. You can find it in labs and research facilities but in homes and consumer store like bestbuy? No way. 

[gtomitsuka]

I'd say the Intel Xeon E7-8894 v4. It has 24 cores/48 threads @ 3.4GHz (boost clock) and costs $9000+.

[ElZamo92]

11 hours ago, gtomitsuka said:

I'd say the Intel Xeon E7-8894 v4. It has 24 cores/48 threads @ 3.4GHz (boost clock) and costs $9000+.

I’d argue it’s the Epyc 7601 with 32 cores and 64 threads @ 3.2GHz boost and 2.7GHz base. 

[Evanair]

12 hours ago, wasab said:

one atom is doing all the computations

Might want to fact check this.  Just sayin...

[jokerr]

Certain CPUs are purpose designed (RISC) architecture CPUs exist that have far superior computational power than xeons or epyc CPUs. However they can't be used for all purposes. So not obviously in a pc

[wasab]

13 hours ago, Evanair said:

Might want to fact check this.  Just sayin...

Okay, atoms are doing all the calculations.  Can’t be wrong with that statement.  

[Bhav]

Well I found the least advanced GPU:

 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/429

 

Or well, the worlds first GPU.

 

Ha, this quote:

 

While the GeForce boasts a fairly powerful hardware transforming & lighting engine, which NVIDIA cutely dubbed their GPU

[winterfate101]

On 1/26/2018 at 1:14 PM, wasab said:

Supercomputers are mostly just thousands of xenon cpus hook to a central server. It is not one cpu. If you want the most advance single cpu, well, there is always the quantum computer in which only one atom is doing all the computations but that is a far way off and no way does it qualify as a “personal computer”. You can find it in labs and research facilities but in homes and consumer store like bestbuy? No way. 

Or, you mean, no way YET. Remember what people said about PCs way back in the Atanasoff days!

[sazrocks]

1 hour ago, winterfate101 said:

Or, you mean, no way YET. Remember what people said about PCs way back in the Atanasoff days!

Yeah except these quantum computers are fundamentally different from normal PCs and would simply not work for 99% of a normal user's workloads.

[Canada EH]

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/171678-intel-unveils-72-core-x86-knights-landing-cpu-for-exascale-supercomputing