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So the last HEDT chips we got were the AMD Threadripper 5000 Pro series which were simply the 3000 series reskinned with a bit of extra oomph at a far higher price tier. But that was a chip essentially that was released in 2019
The HEDT market is so important for home enthusiast or SME's who can't afford a full blown server costing several thousand or even more £s
The AMD Threadripper 3000 initial launch outperformed Intels competing chips so much, that in some use cases (real world use cases like Unreal Engine), you actually would have required 2 Intel Chips to keep up with a single Threadripper.
wccftech.com
But then AMD have left it there which is incredibly insulting to the market. Yes, they may have zero competition, but that's no excuse to leave your customers high and dry when you promised them a lengthy upgrade path. They've purely done this as there was no particular financial gain to be made competing against themselves.
Step in Intel at long last, using the 12th Gen Core cores which we know are strong performers, looking up to 64 cores with up to 112 PCIe gen 5 lanes, and some decent pricing at least at the lower end
Quite frankly, what they manage to achieve in performance is almost irrelevant, the fact they're waking up this dismissed segment again is huge. But very unusually, they didn't release any corresponding performance graphs to AMD's Threadripper competitors. Is this a new Intel prepared to sell themselves against their own performance? This remains to be seen.
The HEDT market is so important for home enthusiast or SME's who can't afford a full blown server costing several thousand or even more £s
The AMD Threadripper 3000 initial launch outperformed Intels competing chips so much, that in some use cases (real world use cases like Unreal Engine), you actually would have required 2 Intel Chips to keep up with a single Threadripper.
AMD Threadripper PRO 5000 CPUs Obliterate Intel's Xeon Workstation Chips In Unreal Engine
AMD Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series chips outperform Intel Xeon W-3300 chips in Unreal Engine testing in various workflows.
wccftech.com
But then AMD have left it there which is incredibly insulting to the market. Yes, they may have zero competition, but that's no excuse to leave your customers high and dry when you promised them a lengthy upgrade path. They've purely done this as there was no particular financial gain to be made competing against themselves.
Step in Intel at long last, using the 12th Gen Core cores which we know are strong performers, looking up to 64 cores with up to 112 PCIe gen 5 lanes, and some decent pricing at least at the lower end
Quite frankly, what they manage to achieve in performance is almost irrelevant, the fact they're waking up this dismissed segment again is huge. But very unusually, they didn't release any corresponding performance graphs to AMD's Threadripper competitors. Is this a new Intel prepared to sell themselves against their own performance? This remains to be seen.