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Gentlemen, turn on your rendering engines. AMD finally brings a workstation-class processor, in other words, security conscious, to challenge the Intel Xeon on the desktop with its Ryzen Threadripper Pro. With up to 64 cores, the pro version of AMD’s multi-core hub. Threadripper processors It incorporates essential elements such as support for large amounts of memory and security at the board level, essential for uses that move a ton of confidential data, ranging from aerospace viewing to Hollywood video editing and CGI rendering. The CPU debuts in the Lenovo ThinkStation P620; Lenovo has a limited exclusive on the processor.
The CPU comes in four variants: 3945WX (12 cores, with the fastest single core speeds), 3955WX (16 cores), 3975WX (32 cores), and 3995WX (64 cores). At the moment, to achieve such high counts with Intel Xeon, you need to use multiple CPUs.
They all come with some of the advantages of AMD’s architecture, including support for PCI Gen4 – in this case, up to 128 lanes. And Pro versions add support for more types of memory, especially RDIMM and LRDIMM, through the high-end consumer-centric Threadripper, plus 8 memory channels vs. 4, allowing it to support up to 2TB of memory.
On the downside, although AMD supports faster internal transfers than Intel via PCI 4, it does not offer any high-speed external data transfer capabilities to the Thunderbolt 3. And, in fact, the faster connections of the ThinkStation P620 They are USB 3.2 Gen 2 and 10 Gb Ethernet.
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With the ThinkStation P620, you can configure up to two Nvidia Quadro RTX 8000 cards or four RTX 4000 cards, 512 GB of memory and 20 TB of storage. It uses the same 33-liter box as the P520; Lenovo and AMD worked hard to make it possible to lock out all those heat-generating components without resorting to liquid cooling. However, one wonders how loud fans must be.
It will ship with Windows 10 Pro instead of Workstation, which is generally required by Microsoft for the workstation hardware. The two are almost identical, except for the latter’s support for Microsoft’s Resilient File System (ReFS), which has improved protections to prevent and repair data corruption, SMB Direct, which speeds up network connections and reduces latency with supported network adapters and persistent memory, non-volatile memory (NVRAM) that doesn’t erase when it loses power like standard RAM. Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux will arrive in about a month after launch, followed by more LInux certifications.
The ThinkStation P620 will be available this September with prices starting at $ 4,600.
