ServeTheHome：AMD EPYC Rome Details Trickle Out 64 Cores 128 Threads Per Socket

[Insert_Nickname]

128 threads?!? My Commodore 64 is rolling around in the grave!

Not only that, but properbly generating enough electricity while doing it to power one of those things... 😀

 

[CatMerc]

Zen 3 as a platform will be expensive, as I guess it would support DDR5, which means a new Socket and New Memory Controller, may be PCI-E 5.0 as well. So the 64 Core per socket makes it a little more attractive to upgrade. But I think Zen 3 we are looking at mid to late 2020.

You can have a controller be backwards compatible between DDR5/4 (Just like Skylake's supported 4 and 3), and the same is true for PCI-E, so most likely you will be able to run Zen 3 on existing AM4.
Perhaps new AM5 released in parallel while still supporting AM4, or the DDR5 will remain exclusive to servers until later in 2020/2021.