Ancalagon44
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Most reports show a low of 10 cores in TR followed by 12, 14 and finally 16 cores. Nowhere did I find an 8 core TR.
Think about it - how can you have a ThreadRipper with 10 or 14 cores? Makes no sense.
We know that each CCX has 4 cores. Each ThreadRipper always has 4 cores. Total maximum number of cores is 16.
AMD will never disable an entire CCX. They will only ever disable cores in a CCX. They have also said that they will never use unbalanced CCXs. So, with Ryzen, a 6 core CPU is 3 + 3 - always. It is never 4 + 2. A quad core is always 2 + 2, never 3 + 1.
Taking this all together:
ThreadRipper has 4 CCXs - always. No CCXs will ever be disabled
Each CCX on a single threadripper must have the same number of CPUs, from 1 - 4.
Therefore, the total number of ThreadRipper cores is always 4X, where X is a number from 1 - 4. In practice I don't think we will see quad core ThreadRipper, but we will probably see 8 core ThreadRipper, which will still benefit from the quad channel memory and loads of PCI-E lanes.