Hi.
This post will be the next of a series of few post to try to help you getting further.
I will return later with more information on your questen 1.
But you wrote: 'buy the 1920X instead for the time being - it will certainly be noticeably faster than my current 8-core i7,' I am not sure that it will 'certainly be noticeably faster than your current 8-core i7'. One thing is CPU benchmark. An another thing is Resolve. But here is a benchmark comparison:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/In ... 2580vs3934About the 7nm:
AMD's first 7nm product will be a Graphics Card recommended for AI, shipping this year:
'AMD Demos 7nm Vega GPU: Betting Big on Machine Learning for Radeon Instinct; Shipping This Year'
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12910/am ... pping-2018And the first AMD CPU will be the server EPYC CPU. The server CPU's is a very lucrative market, but the validation process can take up to one year. The EPYC CPU are in family with the 32 cores 2990WX. Please read:
'AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019'
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12912/am ... ng-in-2019And then to the end of this AMD slide called 'Threadripper - The Monster Truck of computing':
'2019 - : New platform features to take TR4 to the next level'
from:
https://videocardz.com/75231/amd-ryzen- ... edt-marketAnd as I remember did AMD's Jim Anderson, Senior Vice President and General Manager say to keep the TR4 socket until 2020 in a PcWold Threadripper 2 YouTube video. There is only a few of them. Please see this link to find the right one:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pcworldYesterday I read some news about both Jim Anderson and GlobalFoundries, one of the 4 large Wafer Factories:
'AMD Exec Resigns, Company Moves 7nm Chip Production To TSMC'
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-m ... 37703.htmlThe rumors of the 10 or 12 cores Ryzen modules giving 40-48 cores Threadrippers, appeared after Intels prototype demonstration of a 28 cors 56 threads CPU with an industrial chiller at Computex 2018.
And I still expect a new generation of nice Threadrippers in 2019.
But after answering some questens, will I continue with try to explain why some X399 motherboards cost 300$ and others 550$.
It is called marketing. the marketing departments think, if they have a series of motherboards, the total sales will be higher.
Some of the thing they can change is the network controller. And the type and number of ports. For example cost a 10G bit network controller more than 100$. Some as Gigabyte include one on the motherboard. Others as Asus include one as a PCI card in the motherboard package.
An other expensive add on card is a separate card for more M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD's.
MSI include a PCI Card in its top motherboard package. Asus choose for its top motherboard, to add a card that fit in a RAM like socket.
Other things, can be different number of SATA ports. Some X399 motherboards have 8 others only 6.
USB type and numbers can also be different.
The place where you find the largest difference between the different brands of motherboards is the BIOS. The different manufacturers have different ideas of how important special features as overclocking is. Other think user friendly BIOS is more important. You will be able to learn more about BIOS differences by finding reviews describing the operation of the BIOS'es.
I hope to get time to write the next part in the weekend.
Regards Carsten.