Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 AMD aims to further extend the workstation market

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AMD has launched a Zen 3 -based "Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX Series" (hereinafter Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000).[See another image about this article] AMD's Ryzen Threadripper series is a product equipped with up to eight Ryzen dies (one core per core per one) used for client PCs, with EPYC for servers.Similarly, a maximum of 64 cores/128 thread CPUs can be implemented, and they are introduced as products for HEDT (high -end desktop PC).Ryzen Threadripper Pro is a product that is positioned as a workstation version, and the Ryzen Threadripper Pro for workstations will be introduced before the new Ryzen Threadripper for Hedt.The conventional model announced in July 2020 was ZEN 2-based, but this time the CPU was updated to ZEN 3 base, and the CPU IPC (Instruct?Efficiency is improved, and the memory hierarchy is low -latency, making it possible to demonstrate higher processing capacity.Also, up to 4 at the time of boost.The major feature is that the performance has been greatly improved due to enhancements such as reaching 5GHz.■ The workstation market, which has been attracting attention due to the conversion of the manufacturing industry, has been increasingly increasing in the past year, and in recent years, AI and digital transformation (DX) have become commonplace in the manufacturing industry.Demand for workstation PCs is growing.For example, in the automotive industry, which is a representative of the Japanese manufacturing industry, it is commonplace to design everything on a workstation PC and use that data to run a simulation and verify the operation.For this reason, the performance required for workstations is higher than before, and the components that affect the performance of PCs, such as CPUs and GPUs, are required of the highest performance.According to AMD, the AMD market share in the workstation market last year has risen significantly.According to the professional workstation PC market share data for professional workstations PC market share data, it was 33%in the first quarter of 2021, but it was 33%in the fourth quarter of 2021.It has improved to 60%, indicating that the market share has been greatly expanded in the professional workstation PC market.This tendency is well known not only in the workstation market but also in the server market.The biggest reason is that, whether it is a server or a workstation, all of them have the perception that the number of CPU cores = performance.Intel's 3rd generation Xeon Scalable Processors (hereinafter Xeon SP, Ice Lake-Sp) has the number of CPU cores in Ryzen Threadripper and EPYC, which has a maximum of 40 cores per package and up to 64 cores per package.The current situation is that the number of CPU cores does not meet.The reason AMD has been able to achieve such a lead is that AMD has introduced a technology that implements multiple dies in the package, which is called a tiplet, ahead of competitors such as Intel.AMD designs a die only for CPU core, introduces one (up to 8 cores) or two (up to 16 cores) to Ryzen for client PCs, and has up to eight EPYC.And it is put into Ryzen Threadripper/Ryzen Threadripper Pro.Since the CPU core dies can be produced in common, there are advantages in improving the yield that is important for semiconductor manufacturers, and there is an advantage that one die can easily expand into multiple segment products.In the case of competing Intel, the introduction of a technology like AMD chiplet will be introduced this month, as it remains monolithic (single) dies in the third -generation Xeon SP of the current product.It is from the product called "Sapphire Rapids".The Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000, which was announced this time, is an extension of such EPYC and Ryzen Threadripper series.The structure of up to eight CPU dies and one I/O die (IOD) is exactly the same as the conventional product, and in that sense it is a product that is an extension of conventional products.Manufacturing technology has not changed with the same TSMC 7nm (7N) node as before.The memory is also 8 channels, which can be implemented using ECC UDIMM/RDIMM/LRDIMM, which is up to 2TB to DDR4-3200.■ Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 Series introduced for the workstation market, what is different from the conventional product in ZEN 3 base is the CPU die (Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3000 WX series, Ryzen Threadriper, hereinafter, Ryzen Threadriper.While Pro 3000) was a ZEN 2 base, this product is ZEN 3 based.Eight core CPU die is installed on the package, and it is the same in terms of up to 64 cores/128 threads, but by improving the internal architecture of the CPU, the CPU IPC (Instructure Per Clock-Cycle).Is improved, increasing the number of orders that can be executed per clock, that is, the CPU order execution efficiency has improved significantly.In addition, memory levels, which are important for improving the performance of the CPU, have been greatly improved by being reviewed in Zen 3 and the memory hierarchy.In conventional products that were ZEN 2 generations, four of the eight core CPU dies consist of one cluster (CCX), 8MB of CPU cores, that is, 16MB of 4 core clusters.It was a mechanism to handle the cache as a local cache.On the other hand, Zen 3 has a mechanism to share 32MB L3 cache, which is implemented on the die, as a local cache.This allows you to use one CPU core up to 32MB (although there is a prerequisite that other CPU cores are not used), and if the cache has data, the memory level will be reduced and the CPU will be reduced.The overall performance is improved.The L3 cache capacity of the entire package is up to 256MB as before.In addition, the area around I/O is the same as the conventional product, and PCI Express Gen 4 is possible to implement up to 128 lanes.In conventional products, the maximum clock at the time of boost is 4.It was up to 3GHz, but in this product 4.It has been raised to 5GHz.With these improvements, the power per socket is up to 67%compared to the Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 core (28 cores x 2), but the rendering performance has increased by 39%, and the power efficiency is up to the maximum.AMD explains when doubled.The Ryzen Threadripper PRO series also bears the "PRO" brand, and has a corporate management function "AMD PRO".AMD Pro has a DASH -based management function, making it easy to manage remote management easily using software that supports DASH.In addition, AMD Shadow Stack functions have been added from this generation to detect and prevent control flow attacks.According to AMD, the following SKU is prepared.The difference from the conventional model is that 65 products have been added to the SKU 2 digits, 5965WX, and have been extended to five SKUs in total.This 5965W has a 24 -core product for the CPU, and the expansion of the price range will increase user options.■ Optimization of various applications for professionals, and the performance has been greatly improved this time AMD has the optimization of software used in business use in conjunction with the announcement of these Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 series.We are working in cooperation with independent software vendors.For example, Ansys Mechanical, Autodesk Arnold, Adobe After Effect, SolidWorks Plastics, PTC Generative Design, Simerics CFD, Chaos V-Ray, etc., are optimized for example, for example.It is said that it has achieved three times speeding up.For this reason, the performance has been greatly improved with such professional software, and when comparing the two sockets Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 (28 core CPU, 2nd generation Xeon SP) and Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995X (64 core), the single.Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX in the socket is said to be 51%higher in Autodesk Maya.In addition, 5975WX is 40%faster when comparing Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5975WX (32 cores) and Xeon W3365 (32 core), which are comparison between the same 32 cores.Similarly, it is clear from the material published by AMD that it exceeds the third -generation Xeon SP of the same CPU cores.According to AMD, the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 will be adopted in Lenovo's ThinkStation P620 (the current product is equipped with the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3000 Series), and the 3000 series will be replaced in the future.It will be.According to AMD, it has already begun to be provided (it has not yet appeared as an option on the US Lenovo site).These workstations products are most important than anything else.Looking at the materials released by AMD, the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 will be the most powerful workstation CPU.If you are considering a new workstation in the future, you need to consider the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 series first.

PC Watch, Kazuki Kasahara