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vjahn1
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Hi all,
We will be upgrading our processors to the AMD FX 6000 and 8000 family. But before we do, can someone please let us know that there will be one task for each logical core?. Also, have you noticed any bottlenecks with having the processor share one FPU with two tasks? Your experience is most welcome. Thanks |
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Dayle Diamond
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Do you have an extreme lack of funds?
The 6000 series is from late 2011 and price per performance and performance per watt are much worse than Ryzen chips. At some point you may go farther just by stopping participation in WCG long enough to save on electricity, then use the savings to buy a sixteen thread Ryzen 2700x. |
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Former Member
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Or if you are on a budget get the Ryzen 1700. It is only slightly less efficient than the Ryzen 2xxx series.
I would expect a FX 8000 series processor to deliver less than half the results on WCG than a Ryzen 1700 does, while using more energy. On the number of tasks: I had a FX 6300 running, it ran 6 threads on WCG. |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1684 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Even if I am a strong AMD supporter and user, the FX serie was really not well designed in terms of efficiency.
----------------------------------------The old Phenom II x6 were much better (more efficient) than the FX CPU. I did never invest on FX and I would definitively not do such a buy today. The Ryzen family is much more attractive and cheaper, especially considering the operational costs (electricity costs). Cheers, Yves |
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