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Why Ryzen Threadripper has two mysterious chips |
July 28, 2017
When famed overclocker der8baurer "delidded" AMD's highly anticipated Ryzen Threadripper in a video posted on Thursday, he got a surprise and spawned a mystery: Did AMD really waste two perfectly good 8-core chips to build Threadripper?The mystery kicked off when Der8auer, cracked open his Threadripper and found what appeared to be four 8-core dies used to make the 16-core CPU. Adding to that mystery, der8bauer said AMD confirmed only two of the "dies" were active. der8auer
Two of the 8-core "dies" on the 16-core Ryzen Threadripper 1950x are just dummies to keep the heat spreader from bending out of shape.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3211409/computers/why-ryzen-threadripper-has-two-mysterious-chips.html#tk.rss_all
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