A Word on the Test Config with the ASRock X870E Taichi
For this configuration, we used the ASRock X870E Taichi. This ATX motherboard is really cool, albeit it costs about the same as the CPU itself.
One of the cool features of this motherboard is the M.2 connectivity solution. For two of the SSDs, they have a shared metal heatsink feature. The two primary M.2 slots, however, have a really neat tool-less heatsink design. There is a latch that holds the heatsink in place. Then a small tool-less latch to keep the SSD in place. This makes installation really easy.
Likewise, if you have ever struggled to disengage a PCIe x16 lock from under a GPU, ASRock has a release that is really nice. It is great to see vendors innovate on this feature.
In terms of rear I/O, this motherboard has plenty.
One of the big changes is that we have a 5GbE Realtek NIC and WiFi 7 via a RZ717 NIC.
We also tested the system with both the G.Skill Triden Z 5 Neo RGB at DDR5-6000.
We also got to try the Crucial Pro DDR5-6400 modules.
Next, let us discuss performance.
“It has neither a massive NPU nor integrated graphics”.
Are you sure about the graphics? There should be some basic graphics on the IO die (there are for the non-3D part). If AMD have disabled that for this chip (or if it has a different IO die), that’s significant enough that it should be explicitly called out.
@James
They haven’t disabled anything. It uses the standard AM5 IO die with 2 CUs of RDNA 2 iGPU.
As far as I know there’s only one SKU that has the iGPU disabled – Ryzen 5 7500F.
Does this downclock memory if 4 DIMMs are fully populated? If so, how much?
@James
Official specs are on AMD’s site. 4 DIMMs limit the officially supported speed to DDR5-3600. Anything above it is overclocking, but might work.
James – Just edited that to be “nor massive integrated graphics” to make it more clear. I know we tested it and the motherboard we used supports it.
I’d like to see an Epyc/Threadripper with 3D Vcache on all CCD’s.
Reason being that when you have a 7950x3d (and I assume same for 9950x3d), when you spin up a game, the scheduler nearly disables the non-3dvcache cores, so that the game doesn’t try to use both CCD’s. In some early cases the mixed ccd does not disable the non-vcache ccd and you get worse performance. This is mostly no longer the case, but if you don’t need every last ounce of frequency on those higher frequency/lower cache parts then why not?
An epyc that has Zen5 x3d ccd’s for all…probably cost a lot, but 128 cores (16ccd’s) …that would be 1.5Gb of cache for a single chip…databases would scream with performance.
we want you build server with 9800x3d too
please run 5-6 games on linux like cyberpank,fortnight,Canter strike VS 14900k
@ramin pro cyberpank. Canter strike.