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AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors

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172 points marban | 4 comments | 16 Apr 24 13:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.679s | source
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phkahler ◴[16 Apr 24 14:27 UTC] No.40052383[source]▶
Am I missing something? These look just like the APUs with the addition of "management" and "security" features and without the iGPU. Is that right?
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1. c0l0 ◴[16 Apr 24 14:55 UTC] No.40052780[source]▶
They also support ECC UDIMMs with ECC enabled, which has been the "PRO" series APU killer feature on AM4 for me. The non-"PRO" APUs will run fine with ECC UDIMMs, but cannot make use of the extra parity information (maybe for reasons of market segmentation - I don't know if anyone outside of AMD knows). This is probably less of a concern with DDR5 platforms and their "on-DIE ECC" (which you cannot monitor for Correctable Errors at least, afaik), but it's still gonna matter for me.
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2. nwah1 ◴[16 Apr 24 15:03 UTC] No.40052887[source]▶
Yes. And it actually does have an iGPU, depending on which model.
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3. c0l0 ◴[16 Apr 24 15:43 UTC] No.40053492[source]▶
In case you don't need an integrated GPU (that's somewhat powerful/potent), you can go with any other Ryzen AM5 CPU to receive proper ECC-enabled ECC UDIMM support, afaik :)
4. pedrocr ◴[16 Apr 24 18:05 UTC] No.40055219[source]▶
Since in AM5 all CPUs have a basic iGPU, for a home server all the normal CPUs already work fine. The advantage of the APUs is they're on a monolithic die so should have quite a bit lower idle power usage which is important if you have a NAS or other homelab server running 24/7.