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| Posted: 06 Aug 2018 06:01 AM PDT  Today, AMD's 2nd Gen Threadripper 2990WXAntony Leather There will be four new CPUs: the 2920X and 2950X will replace the current 12 and 16-core Threadripper models - the 1920X and 1950X respectively, while two new additions massively ramp up the core counts and have been headline news recently. These are the Threadripper 2990WX (32-core/64-thread) and 2970WX (24-core/48-thread) and the former is available to pre-order from today for $1799. The WX suffix refers to the new workstation series, differentiating the CPUs from the more general purpose X-series. Of course, there's no reason why you couldn't play games with the 32-core model, but clearly, it's designed for high-end content creation and workstation-level tasks. AMD 2nd Gen Threadripper Press kitAntony Leather The new CPUs are all compatible with current X399 chipset motherboards, but you will likely need to apply a BIOS update first, which can usually be done using the board's USB BIOS flashback feature. There's also been no change to the installation or cooler mounting - everything is as it was. Today, though, we're only allowed to talk specifications and to reveal the products.
The models are split into two categories - the X-series, which replace the previous Threadripper CPUs and a new WX workstation-class series, with the four CPUs likely to be the only Threadripper CPUs we see on the 12nm Zen+ core until Zen 2 and 7nm arrive next year. The launches and availability are staggered too; the 32-core 2990WX launches today as do pre-orders and full performance reviews will land on 13th August. The new 16-core model, the Threadripper 2950X, will see performance reviews launch on 31st August, while both the 2970WX (24-core) and 2920X (12-core) will launch in October. All the CPUs feature AMD's new boosting algorithms including features such as Precision Boost and Precision Boost Overdrive and sport boost frequencies of up to 4.4GHz. As many have suspected, there was indeed scope for a 32-core Threadripper CPU, although AMD's Senior Product Manager, James Prior, told me at the recent Threadripper launch event that it was never AMD's intention to launch a 32-core CPU at the start and instead wanted to reap the benefits of moving from the initial 14nm to 12nm manufacturing process, which helped keep power consumption in check. AMD's Wraith Ripper Air cooler for its 2nd Gen Threadripper CPUsAntony Leather The reality is still a 250W TDP product, which is going to need some serious cooling, but you'd expect nothing less for a 32-core product that's likely to be the most powerful desktop CPU ever made. AMD has an answer for this with its own Wraith Ripper air cooler, co-developed with Cooler Master, which will offer air-cooling fans a way to deal with the heat, but with other coolers you'll need to check the TDP ratings. For example, Noctua's air coolers have a TDP limit of around 200W, which is 50W short and that's before you apply an overclock or tap into Precision Boost Overdrive. AMD 2nd Gen Threadripper packagingAntony Leather There's new packaging too, which has been designed to be easier to use and more secure, but you still get the socket tool wrench plus Asetek liquid cooler adaptor to allow you to mount certain all-in-one liquid coolers to the TR4 socket. The packaging is the same across the new range. We already know roughly how powerful the Threadripper 2990WX will be as there have been several leaks revealing benchmark numbers such as the one I reported on here showing Cinebench scores. It's fairly clear, then that AMD is set to retake the desktop performance crown and by a big margin with the Threadripper 2990WX and amazingly, the latter retails for $200 less than the Core i9-7980XE, which sits second in the graph below. The first performance leak of the Threadripper 2990X 32-core CPU reveals Cinebench performanceAntony Leather Intel is certainly stirring and looks set to offer the fastest mainstream CPU in its Core i9-9900K , but AMD will still likely offer better value here and Intel's high-end desktop exploits have so far been a little lacking, at least as far as toppling the Threadripper 2990WX in the same way it did with the Threadripper 1950X last year after its short reign at the top. I'll be back soon with my full review of the Threadripper 2900WX and other Threadripper CPUs so be sure to follow me using the links below. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alex Jones hit with bans from Facebook and Apple Posted: 06 Aug 2018 07:04 AM PDT  Enlarge / Conspiracy theorist and talk show host Alex Jones. After more than a week of controversy and pressure, Facebook removed four pages run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from its platform. According to a blog post published Monday morning, Facebook removed the Alex Jones Channel, Alex Jones, InfoWars, and Infowars Nightly News pages for "repeatedly posting content over the past several days" that violates the company's Community Standards. "Since then, more content from the same Pages has been reported to us," the blog post states. "Upon review, we have taken it down for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies." The four pages in question haven't been totally axed from Facebook; they've just been unpublished so that no one can view them. Jones has the opportunity to file an appeal to get his pages restored, but if he loses the appeal (or doesn't appeal at all), Facebook will permanently remove the pages from its platform. Facebook's action comes after Apple removed five of the six InfoWars podcasts from its platforms, including iTunes. While Apple didn't host Jones' content, anyone with an iPhone or iPad could find those podcast episodes. Now with this removal, all of those podcast episodes cannot be searched for, listened to, or downloaded from Apple's platforms. Last week, Spotify took down numerous episodes of InfoWars' and Alex Jones' podcasts from its platform as well, but nearly one year's worth of episodes remains streamable on Spotify. Alex Jones had already received a 30-day ban from Facebook for posting content that violated the company's Community Standards. Facebook attempts to explain its violation policies in its blog post, stating that both personal accounts and pages receive strikes when forbidden content gets posted. After surpassing an undisclosed number of strikes, the page is unpublished. Following this structure, it's unclear how many strikes Jones and his pages have received since Facebook removed four videos from his pages about a week ago. But not all strikes are created equal. Facebook says that the severity of the punishment may vary depending on the type of content posted. "For example, some content is so bad that posting it just once means we would remove the account immediately," Facebook wrote in the blog post. "In the case of other violations, we may warn someone the first time they break our Community Standards." YouTube has a similar strike system with slightly clearer rules: if a channel receives three strikes for violating the company's community guidelines within three months, the channel will be removed from YouTube. The company has other punishments that come along with strikes as well, like a temporary ban on live streaming. However, each individual strike expires three months after being issued. Facebook has come under fire in the past few weeks for allowing content creators like Jones to publish fake news, falsities, and hateful content freely on its platform. The company may have a definition for hate speech and types of hateful content, but its decision to allow conspiracy-theory content to live on its platform frustrates many users. The company reminded users in its most recent blog post that "wrong and untrue" statements are allowed on Facebook, while content that "attacks or dehumanizes others" is not. |
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