AMD Ryzen Threadripper: Powering Workstations That Enable Creative Work
This processor delivers performance, scalability and efficiency to help workers achieve their objectives.
For workers in creative fields — including engineers, software developers and animators — processing power isn’t a nice-to-have feature; it’s a must- have. Users looking to design new automobiles, for example, need workstations that can render three-dimensional models and complete complex computations.
AMD meets the needs of users in these fields with its Ryzen Threadripper Pro. Building on its line of Epic processors for data center hardware, AMD developed Threadripper for workstations. The processor delivers more cores, better performance and greater efficiency, so users can get their work done faster and more effectively and have a better time to market for their products.
Unprecedented Performance for Demanding Work
Having 96 cores gives the Threadripper processor the ability to handle complex workloads more quickly and efficiently than older generations of processors. Software vendors are starting to take advantage of these capabilities, writing applications that use multiple cores simultaneously to massively reduce compiling times, so work gets done faster. AMD also increased the number of PCI Express lanes that are available and expanded memory to up to a terabyte, all of which boosts performance.
Threadripper Pro can go from 12 to 96 cores, enabling a great deal of expandability. Additionally, the processor can go from a single graphics processing unit up to three GPUs, double-wide. This would enable the deployment, for example, of three NVIDIA 600 Ada Generation graphics cards, each with 48 gigabytes of video RAM, providing powerful rendering, graphics and computing capabilities. This expandability allows IT teams to configure their workstations with different capabilities to satisfy the needs of a variety of workers, including engineers, designers and high-end workstation users.
HP workstations with Threadripper processors also have new thermal technology that enables them to fit in small case but still deliver optimal performance.
Use Cases for the Power of Threadripper Processors
Threadripper Pro enables workflows that were unavailable to workstation users in the past. Its unmatched performance specs enable the fastest workflows. For example, users engaged in automotive design can create more iterations thanks to its speedy computing capabilities. This allows them to make designs, change them, simulate them and render them many more times than other processors. Speedy processing enables a designer to get the design right while saving the cost of creating a physical model of an automobile. Further, iterating digitally allows an organization to get new products to market faster.
Animators and movie studios are seeing similar benefits from workstations running on Threadripper Pro processors. Reducing the production time for a film or animation sequence enables a studio to get a product out to an audience sooner, bringing in revenue and delighting customers.
Threadripper Pro processors also are excellent for artificial intelligence workloads. They offer the ability to expand to three double-wide GPUs, each with up to 48GB of video memory. This prevents lag even with some of the largest large language models, helping to speed operations such as training. By contrast, running an LLM in the cloud can greatly diminish performance and slow down operations. Further, having 96 cores allows a user to run AI workloads in the background while focusing on active tasks such design work without hampering performance.
The power and efficiency of Threadripper processors make them an excellent choice for high-end workstations used by creative workers.
