Mark your calendars because on Feb. 7th AMD is going to disrupt the high performance computing industry by making the technology which was only used by studios affordable to the average consumer. With 64 cores and 128 threads at only $4000, the AMD 3990x is a game changer. Preliminary tests revealed at CES last week shows the VRAY render performance beating rival Intel’s dual Xeon 56 core setup. This could be a very impressive CPU!
The 2.9 Ghz base frequency and 4.3 Ghz boost frequency make it an extremely versatile piece of technology. With the boost frequency being as high as it is, it’s a good indicator that the 2.9Ghz base is extremely efficient and will keep a consistent temperature.
It's built around a 280 watt TDP power envelope and drops right into the motherboards that are in market today. This makes it a great solution for someone who needs the absolute highest core count for rendering, video editing, and all the other really high core count tasks.
The beauty with the 3000 series thread Ripper products is that they now have a different architecture. All of the PCI lanes are connected to that central I/O die with each of the eight chips around it being the core complexes. That gives each core complex equal access to all the i/o on the platform making it a very symmetrical product.
This product is going to give you that combination of single thread and multi thread frequency making it very flexible for whatever you might need to do. Having that type of power at your desk as an artist gives you the ability to iterate extremely complex projects many times in order to get it just right before sending it off to a render farm.
This is an extremely exciting time for creative power users and we can’t wait to begin testing and creating our own top of the line AMD build. Stay tuned!