Not content material to relaxation on its CPU laurels (and for the time being, it has loads of them underpinning it to assist its weight), AMD at the moment divulged just a few particulars about an upcoming flagship Ryzen Threadripper CPU, the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, a high-end desktop mega-processor with a whopping 64 computing cores.
The chip, whose 64 cores can deal with as much as 128 concurrent processing threads, includes a complete cache quantity of 288MB (256MB of that being L3 cache), and it’ll have the identical 280-watt thermal design energy (TDP) ranking because the $1,399 Ryzen Threadripper 3960X (24-core) and $1,999 Threadripper 3970X (32-core) processors, which have been launched at the moment. (Hit the hyperlinks for our deep-dive evaluations on these two chips, one in all which wins our Editors’ Alternative award.)
This additionally completely outstrips Intel’s prime chip in its Core X-Sequence, the 18-core Core i9-10980XE Excessive Version, which additionally launched at the moment.
The Threadripper 3990X might be marketed primarily towards the sorts of energy customers who can truly make use of all of the cores and threads their duties can get their palms on. Assume skilled content material creators, professional esports streamers, AI builders, and the like, who may also make use of Threadripper’s excessive reminiscence ceiling, lofty PCI Specific lane counts, and assist for PCI Specific four.zero bandwidth for high-speed storage.
Particulars aside from the core/thread depend, cache, and TDP are scarce. We do not know something in regards to the value but, however contemplating that the 32-core/64-thread Ryzen Threadripper 3970X already sells for $1,999, it would not be a stretch to imagine the 3990X will retail someplace within the vary of $three,500 to $four,000, if not barely extra.
The 3990X needs to be appropriate with the road of AMD TRX40-chipset motherboards which can be rolling out at the moment alongside the opposite CPUs within the third-generation Threadripper line. (See our first take a look at all 12 of the TRX40 boards available on the market thus far.) Because of this, anybody trying to bounce into the 64-core pool must don a brand new motherboard, as effectively. With the fashions launched at the moment, that might be a minimal funding of $400 to $500 further.
We have not heard a tough launch date aside from this AMD assertion: “One chip to rule all of them in 2020.” If it is something just like the Threadripper 3970X, nonetheless, we are able to anticipate large efficiency, and that on prime of what’s already one of the crucial thrilling high-end desktop (HEDT) CPU lineup refreshes that the HEDT market has seen in years, if not ever.
