What The 'F' Is Up With The AMD Epyc 72F3?

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[henrik]

Thank you, Wendell for choosing better bg music for this video! :D

[Scitch]

Wendel: "This is 8 cores. There's only 8 cores on this processor."
Me: "Well ok. Doesn't sound that strange."
Wendel: "And yet it's over $2500 US."
Me: 👁👄👁

[TummyTimeTimmy]

How we got from faceless, behind the monitor Wendell, to modern day charismatic Wendel the excellent presenter? One of the greatest transformations in YouTube history.

[MatthewHill]

"If you're on anything older than a 3647..."

<looks at the e5 server in the basement homelab>

Hmm...

[Knirin]

Per core licensing and storage applications. One is for reducing costs, and The other needs a lot of connectivity.

[Sphaerocarpaceae]

Finally got a dev server approved with a 72F3 in it. It's going to be great for MS SQL. Next thing is to convince management that we need computers such as these in our production environments :)

[andljoy]

Fun server story, i was decommissioning a an old VDI server today and found a 2TB P4600 in it that i did not know was there, did not even have a datastore on it and .... and half a terabyte of ram . That is going in the Infrastructure teams private VDI server right away, better than the fusion io that's in there :P

I can see that 8 core being super handy as a PRTG server. In big installs a VM just cannot handle it.

[gromett]

Almost immediately this video started I was thinking I would love one of those... 8 cores but 128 PCIe lanes. Nice.

[thebootknifer]

Any other tech YouTuber: "This is an 8 core Epyc processor, why does this exist?!"
Me:"Yeah, why?!? That's stupid!"

Wendel:"This is an 8 core Epyc processor, why does this exist?"
Me:"Tell me more, please."

[greywizard]

Why does the 72F3 exist? Because Fleecem McShaftem Inc. like to charge their customers for enterprise software licenses on a 'per core' basis. Even for entry level software.

[ironconquest]

My gf's lab is using these types of Epyc-based systems for biomedical image processing and such. Cool stuff!

[titaniummechanism]

1:26 I can feel my thumbs starting to hurt just from looking at that.

[merlin]

The clickbait worked on me. Thanks for making it clear right off the bat lol.

[PrivateUsername]

Now we just need a workstation with the 32c version.

[johnmijo]

Thanks Wendell, always nice to see why/how you should use the lower count server CPU's

So any chance you will do a colaboration with Patrick @ STH ?

[hgbugalou]

Thoughts on a Epyc model for a domain controllers for a 75k user / 35k computer domain? I'm introducing Epyc to the first time in an all team blue Datacenter for A few physical DCs to back the majority VM DC environment. I realize practically any of them would work but bang for buck is always good and a smooth experience here opens the door to bigger opportunities later when we look to upgrade VM farms.

[playswithblades]

You had me for a second but it passed soon, I can't afford it so whatever. Greetings from the Haswell Land here...

[andersjjensen]

Now I want the 72F3 for a gaming rig. 8 cores with 32MB L3 cache each.. come at me old DX11 single core titles! :P

[mclovin]

Would have liked to hear your take on AMDs weird pricing for their F-SKUs. The 16-core model is more expensive than the 24-core, and I can't find any spec that would justify it.

[Reedith]

It's the end of 2024 about to be 2025 and I'm considering a 75f3 for my home lad it's incredible how these prices come down so quickly over just a few years