Previewing Intel's Threadripper 2 Killer??

The video opens by recalling a high profile Computex moment where Intel showcased a chilled liquid cooled 28 core processor, and the host notes the mystery around its exact purpose. The team announces they will pit a Threadripper 32 core setup against an Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 to provide a proxy for what the consumer version of Intel’s upcoming enthusiast chip might look like, acknowledging that pricing and availability will be very different. They describe their test rig, including a Threadripper 32 core system and a Xeon Platinum 8180 on a platform designed to mimic similar workloads, with careful notes about potential bios and tuning differences. The hosts also acknowledge that results should be interpreted with caution because the consumer product and its all-core boost behavior may differ from the data center oriented Xeon, and they emphasize the high cost and speculative nature of the comparison. As testing begins, they run Cinebench across both CPUs and compare turbo behavior, core counts, and power usage, establishing the context that any conclusions will hinge on real-world workloads rather than synthetic numbers alone.

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