usertests GenericUser2001 said: Maybe in ten years I will be able to buy one of these on Ebay. We'll probably see mainstream 32-core Zen 7 or Zen 8 with the performance of >48 Zen 5 cores. 96-core Zen 5 will be the first component on the list to become "obsolete", although the I/O and memory channels will be lacking on consumer sockets. Terabytes of DRAM will become cheaper and more commonplace after 3D DRAM takes off. The GPUs/accelerators of 10 years from now will improve a lot. But to get the memory you want, you might need a future evolution of Strix/Medusa Halo. But yeah, we can dream of the $150k workstation cratering down to $2k. If the MI350P 288 GB accelerators are still holding a lot of value 10 years from now, they could be ripped out of the system and sold separately. The 9995WX + motherboard + 2 TB DDR5 will hopefully be left in the dust by then, if CPUs and memory advance enough. Reply
-Fran- warezme said: Yes but can it run Crysis….. Well, it may be able to hallucinate it? Regards. Reply
jp7189 "I predict that within 10 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them." -John Needlebaum Frink Reply
TechieTwo Looks like a nice desktop PC. I think everyone should have one or two. AMD please send me a "test unit". :blush: Reply
qxp Its weird – why settle for Threadripper when the cost is dominated by GPUs and memory? They should have just put Epyc CPUs, more slots, more memory bandwidth. Reply
usertests qxp said: Its weird – why settle for Threadripper when the cost is dominated by GPUs and memory? They should have just put Epyc CPUs, more slots, more memory bandwidth. It's Threadripper Pro, and I doubt it lacks much that you would need Epyc to get. Pro has 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes and 8-channel memory, non-Pro has 80 PCIe 5.0 lanes and 4-channel memory. It also clocks higher than Epyc chips, 5.4 GHz vs. 4.5 GHz for a Turin 96-core. Reply
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