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Re:All AMD ThreadRipper CPU's will have 64 PCIe Lanes by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @09:43AM (#14452398)
Ah, so the high-end ThreadRipper would contain the same chips as a high-end Epyc, just twice as many, and likewise for the lower-end variants, I guess? That makes sense.
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Re:All AMD ThreadRipper CPU's will have 64 PCIe Lanes by masklinn on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @09:45AM (#14452417)
> just twice as many

Half. Epyc gets 4 MCM[0], ThreadRipper gets 2 (with each MCM containing 8 Ryzen cores)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-chip_module

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Re:All AMD ThreadRipper CPU's will have 64 PCIe Lanes by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @07:39PM (#14456781)
Uh, right. Got it the wrong way round.
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