I’ve had the privilege of leading the MNC at AMD for the past five years. In this role, I work with Dell, HP, Lenovo, Supermicro, and other leading workstation manufacturers to develop, market, and sell workstations using AMD Ryzen™ PRO and AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO processors. In this brief time, we’ve seen over 25 customers develop AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor-powered workstations that are transforming the capabilities of premium workstations.
Many of you who have followed our journey already know that AMD Threadripper PRO CPU delivers up to an industry-leading 96-cores per processor. However, many of you may not have heard that every AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000WX-Series processor model offers single-threaded frequencies of over 5GHz, delivering a no-compromise architecture for lightly threaded and multi-threaded applications.
Another secret of AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors is that they enable GPU-centric workloads to run faster. When pairing the same professional graphics card with AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO vs. the competition’s processor, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO CPU delivers up to 38% faster graphics performance1, up to 29% faster GPU compute performance, and up to 29% faster GPU AI performance2.
Finally, one unique thing that AMD does is collaborate with leading workstation software manufacturers to optimize their software for the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO architecture. These include 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Inventor, and Maya covering media and entertainment, design, engineering, and manufacturing.
In the report, titled “The Most Intensive of Workloads Call for Workstations,” author Linn Huang notes that AMD has expanded its workstation portfolio at the same time it claimed a larger share of the market overall.
He writes, “AMD processors have the largest shipment volume in the premium 12 core and higher workstation segment in the combined years 2022 and 2023, according to IDC's Quarterly Worldwide Workstation Tracker.”
The paper discusses the experience various customers have had with AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors and the degree to which these new workstations differed from the systems they had before. According to Jon Carr, technical director at Respawn Entertainment for the video game Jedi Survivor, "The boon to development that AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors had for us honestly can't be overstated. It's very empowering to our team and the whole entire project. And that uplift can be felt across the entire development cycle."
The report goes on to discuss how the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor was vital to Pixomondo’s work on Star Trek: Discovery and its impact in academic settings as well. It’s worth checking out if you want more information on how artists, programmers, and educators deploy AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO CPUs for a wide range of mission-critical tasks.
Respawn Entertainment and Pixomondo are among the 70 customers that have collaborated with AMD to tell their Customer Success Stories. In my brief time leading the team, I’ve had the opportunity to work with award winning visual effects developers, game developers, automotive manufacturers, architects, and health care innovators to participate in their journeys and tell their stories.
As much as our customers love AMD technology, the reason that they keep coming back to refresh to newer workstations and processors is the productivity gains that AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor-powered workstations deliver. When our customers are running high performance workstation workloads like rendering, light baking, manufacturing simulation, or software compilation, the productivity gains are dramatic. In as little as 33 minutes, an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor-powered workstation can do the work that takes a competitor’s processor a full hour, nearly doubling user productivity3.
1 - Based on AMD performance lab testing as of August, 2023, using the SPECapc for AutoDesk Maya 2023 GPU shaded metric to compare the performance of the full stack of AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors and the AMD 5965WX and 5955WX processors in a reference system configured with 8x32GB DDR5, NVIDIA Quadro RTX A5000 graphics, 1TB SSD, Win 11 vs. similarly configured BOXX workstations with the full stack of Intel Xeon w-3400 series and and the Intel w7-2495X and the Intel w7-2465X processors. Workstation manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Results may vary. SPP-20
2 - Based on AMD performance lab testing as of August, 2023, using the SPEC Workstation 3.1 GPU compute metric to compare the performance of the full stack of AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors processors in a reference system configured with 8x32GB DDR5, NVIDIA Quadro RTX A5000 graphics, 1TB SSD, Win 11 vs. similarly configured BOXX workstations with the full stack of Intel Xeon w-3400 series and and processors. Workstation manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Results may vary. SPP-23
3 - Based on AMD performance lab testing as of August, 2023, using the Revit 2022 (RFO) model creation benchmark and the V-Ray benchmark to compare the average performance of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 64 core 7000 series processors in a BOXX reference system configured with 8x32GB DDR5, NVIDIA Quadro RTX A5000 graphics, 1TB SSD, Win 11 vs.similarly configured BOXX workstation with the Intel Xeon w9-3495 processor. Workstation manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Results may vary. SPP-22