Supermicro has his new workstation 5014 A-TT within the framework of CES 2021 presented. It is a system with AMD’s middle 2020 announced Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3000 WX, i.e. processors with up to eight Zen-2 chiplets including a maximum of 64 cores and 128 PCI-Express-4.0-Lanes.

The CPU is flanked by eight RAM slots (Octa-Channel) for up to 2 TByte ECC-DDR4 – 3200 – MHz RAM. Internal expansions can be found in six PCIe-4.0-x 12 slots; there are also four for the M.2 mass storage device Slots for 2280 – and 22110 – NVMe SSDs provided. You have four bays for 3.5- or 2.5-inch SATA hard drives and two more exclusively for 2.5-inch drives.

10 GbE integrated ex works Ex works are on the mainboard M 12 SWA-TF for the LAN connection once 10 GBase-T on board, the GbE port is also responsible for the management interface IPMI. A VGA connection is also available for the latter. Further details on the specifications can be found on the product page of the 5014 A-TT.

Supermicro does not provide any information on the release date or price of the workstation. AMD plans to make processors of the Threadripper Pro series available to regular retailers from March 2020, before that they are reserved for OEM partners. At the start, Lenovo offered Workstations Ende 2020 as an exclusive partner.

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