By: Foo_ (foo.delete@this.nomail.com), December 30, 2020 3:50 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us) on December 29, 2020 6:00 pm wrote:
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> Socket AM4 will not go higher than 16 cores I am afraid. The package and the IO chiplet is only developed
> for use with two CPU chiplets and one has 8 cores. It is not totally impossible to do more but AMD
> simply didn't want to do this and nothing suggests they are planning such thing secretly.
Also it is probably not wise to feed more than 16 high-performance cores using only two channels of memory.
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> Socket AM4 will not go higher than 16 cores I am afraid. The package and the IO chiplet is only developed
> for use with two CPU chiplets and one has 8 cores. It is not totally impossible to do more but AMD
> simply didn't want to do this and nothing suggests they are planning such thing secretly.
Also it is probably not wise to feed more than 16 high-performance cores using only two channels of memory.