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Hi.
I got the idea, to show you what is available today. Why do you have to wait to this fall, for the last information on Apples new Mac PRO.
I learned by participating in this forum, how impotent the Graphic Card Performance are for Resolve. In an another thread told Peter us a nice message, around a coming release of Resolve using the AMD's Infinity Fabric interconnections. Today we know of two AMD Graphics cards with the Infinity Fabric interconnections. The Radeon Instinct MI50/MI60 and coming this fall, the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II or Duo.
For this build suggestion, do I choose 3x Radeon Instinct MI50, with a estimated total cost of ~ $6300.
This will give the following performance:
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance of 40.2 TFLOPs
GPU Memory Size of 48 GB and
Memory Bandwidth of 1024 GB/s
https://www.amd.com/en/products/profess ... tinct-mi50
To compare have nVidea Titan RTX:
16.3 TFLOPs of FP32 power.
24 GB of GDDR6 Ram and
Memory a bandwith of 672 GB/s
That is 2.5x the TFlops, Double the amont of vRam and 50% more memory Bandwith.
As CPU for this build suggestion, will you have the possibility to choose between tree 1st generation EPYC CPU designed for single socket operation:
EPYC 7551P 32 cores / 64 threads and a TDP of 180W/180W $2100
EPYC 7401P 24 cores / 48 threads and a TDP of 155W/170W $1075
EPYC 7351P 16 cores / 32 threads and a TDP of 155W/170W $750
More information in this link:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11551/am ... c-analysis
And as the EPYC uses 8 memory channels, will its 24 cores and 32 cores versions, not have the odd memory configurations as the Threadripper with its 4 memory channels have.
In this link, do I read about a project, where they build a complete new EPYC workstation, inside a 12 years old SUN Ultra Workstation cabinet.
https://www.servethehome.com/introducin ... rkstation/
They start to select the new SUN Ultra EPYC Components on page 3:
https://www.servethehome.com/introducin ... station/3/
They choose the Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 motherboard, that have space for four double width PCIe x16 cards.
I don't know the price of the Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 motherboard, but I found the similar Gigabyte MZ31-AR0 on Amazon to a price: $527.84
https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-MZ31-AR ... B077BKKJXZ
It will have space for 3x dual slot Radeon Instinct MI50, A single slot Graphics Card for Resolves display and a Declink Card with a PCIe x8 Interface.
Here is a link to Gigabytes page for the MZ31-AR0. I suggest you use some of the ECC Registered RAM from their QVL List:
http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/QV ... 0_v1.0.pdf
And here is link with a review of it:
https://www.servethehome.com/gigabyte-m ... therboard/
Until now, I have shown to you, that you already today can buy an extreme set of Graphic Cards together with a 24 core / 48 threads CPU and a motherboard for an estimated price of $7902.84
How do you like it. How many do you think are ready to pay this amount of money, for this kind of performance?
And finally, why don't we all uses systems as above?
First we have to wait for the release of the Resolve version, that take advantage of AMD's Infinity Fabric interconnections.
And then, AMD have already confirmed the NEXT generation of its EPYC CPU's will come in Q3 of 2019.
It will be manufactured on the new faster 7nm process node and will, as the Radeon Instinct MI50 Graphic Cards come with the PCIe ver 4.0 Interface.
The maximum core numbers will be increased to 64 cores and 128 threads for the Single socket motherboards, and to a total of 128 cores and 256 threads for Dual socket motherboards.
So there are many good reasons to wait a few months.
Regards Carsten.
EDIT: Changed 'an alternative' to 'same class as' in the heading.
I got the idea, to show you what is available today. Why do you have to wait to this fall, for the last information on Apples new Mac PRO.
I learned by participating in this forum, how impotent the Graphic Card Performance are for Resolve. In an another thread told Peter us a nice message, around a coming release of Resolve using the AMD's Infinity Fabric interconnections. Today we know of two AMD Graphics cards with the Infinity Fabric interconnections. The Radeon Instinct MI50/MI60 and coming this fall, the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II or Duo.
For this build suggestion, do I choose 3x Radeon Instinct MI50, with a estimated total cost of ~ $6300.
This will give the following performance:
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance of 40.2 TFLOPs
GPU Memory Size of 48 GB and
Memory Bandwidth of 1024 GB/s
https://www.amd.com/en/products/profess ... tinct-mi50
To compare have nVidea Titan RTX:
16.3 TFLOPs of FP32 power.
24 GB of GDDR6 Ram and
Memory a bandwith of 672 GB/s
That is 2.5x the TFlops, Double the amont of vRam and 50% more memory Bandwith.
As CPU for this build suggestion, will you have the possibility to choose between tree 1st generation EPYC CPU designed for single socket operation:
EPYC 7551P 32 cores / 64 threads and a TDP of 180W/180W $2100
EPYC 7401P 24 cores / 48 threads and a TDP of 155W/170W $1075
EPYC 7351P 16 cores / 32 threads and a TDP of 155W/170W $750
More information in this link:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11551/am ... c-analysis
And as the EPYC uses 8 memory channels, will its 24 cores and 32 cores versions, not have the odd memory configurations as the Threadripper with its 4 memory channels have.
In this link, do I read about a project, where they build a complete new EPYC workstation, inside a 12 years old SUN Ultra Workstation cabinet.
https://www.servethehome.com/introducin ... rkstation/
They start to select the new SUN Ultra EPYC Components on page 3:
https://www.servethehome.com/introducin ... station/3/
They choose the Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 motherboard, that have space for four double width PCIe x16 cards.
I don't know the price of the Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 motherboard, but I found the similar Gigabyte MZ31-AR0 on Amazon to a price: $527.84
https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-MZ31-AR ... B077BKKJXZ
It will have space for 3x dual slot Radeon Instinct MI50, A single slot Graphics Card for Resolves display and a Declink Card with a PCIe x8 Interface.
Here is a link to Gigabytes page for the MZ31-AR0. I suggest you use some of the ECC Registered RAM from their QVL List:
http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/QV ... 0_v1.0.pdf
And here is link with a review of it:
https://www.servethehome.com/gigabyte-m ... therboard/
Until now, I have shown to you, that you already today can buy an extreme set of Graphic Cards together with a 24 core / 48 threads CPU and a motherboard for an estimated price of $7902.84
How do you like it. How many do you think are ready to pay this amount of money, for this kind of performance?
And finally, why don't we all uses systems as above?
First we have to wait for the release of the Resolve version, that take advantage of AMD's Infinity Fabric interconnections.
And then, AMD have already confirmed the NEXT generation of its EPYC CPU's will come in Q3 of 2019.
It will be manufactured on the new faster 7nm process node and will, as the Radeon Instinct MI50 Graphic Cards come with the PCIe ver 4.0 Interface.
The maximum core numbers will be increased to 64 cores and 128 threads for the Single socket motherboards, and to a total of 128 cores and 256 threads for Dual socket motherboards.
So there are many good reasons to wait a few months.
Regards Carsten.
EDIT: Changed 'an alternative' to 'same class as' in the heading.
Last edited by Carsten Sellberg on Sun Jun 09, 2019 5:29 am, edited 2 times in total.
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