Official support refers to driver updates and perhaps security updates, but there’s nothing to stop you trying to install an OS to either system or platform.įor clarification, we did not converse with AMD in writing this piece. 'Official' is a general term: some special customers may receive extended lifetime support, or drivers currently out in the ecosystem still work on the platforms.
Given that Microsoft has essentially ended support for the OS, this is the type of response we expect from AMD – Intel has also stopped officially supporting Windows 7 on the newest platforms as well. These factors collectively indicate that AMD will not launch a 10-core part in October.Officially, AMD does not support Ryzen CPUs on Windows 7. Inserting a 10-core part into this stack would muddy it in a way that isn’t necessarily to AMD’s advantage. Intel’s 10-core may beat an AMD eight-core, but AMD makes certain you pay a hefty premium to step up to it - while making their own 12-core look like a very nice performance bump. Currently, a 12-core AMD CPU is typically faster (at least in multi-threaded code) than an Intel equivalent. Instead of meeting Intel core-to-core, AMD has chosen to bracket Intel with 8-core and 12-core CPUs. The 2990WX approach, with the memory controller connected to one chiplet and the second chiplet hanging off the first is a step backward.īut there are non-technical reasons for AMD not to release a 10-core chip, too. AMD would have to rewrite its algorithms to tell the eight-core chip to preferentially push traffic over the connection and through the other CPU. The other two cores would share an equally wide channel. It could theoretically disable one memory channel per controller and use two controllers, with a memory connection to each chiplet - but that still creates a lopsided configuration in which eight cores are fighting for a single channel of memory bandwidth. AMD’s third-generation memory subsystem connects one dual-channel memory controller to each chiplet.
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