PC players ready for AMD’s 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X chip might want to maintain out a bit longer. The corporate is pushing again the processor’s launch date from this month to November.
On Friday, AMD stated it is at the moment preoccupied with “assembly the robust demand” for third technology Ryzen processors already out there. The Ryzen 9 3900X, for example, was launched in July to rave critiques, however retailers have struggled to maintain the product in inventory. What needs to be a $499 processor can now be discovered on sale for over $880 through on-line third-party sellers. To fabricate the silicon, AMD depends on Taiwanese producer TSMC.
There’s some excellent news although. The corporate formally confirmed a third-generation Threadripper chip is in growth, and can arrive in November as nicely. Nevertheless, it will not be a 32-core behemoth that some leaks beforehand urged it may be. As a substitute, the upcoming Threadripper processor will run solely on 24 cores.
The chipmaker teased the brand new Threadripper in a photograph, however shunned providing every other particulars corresponding to pricing. “We’re assured that when fans get their fingers on the world’s first 16-core mainstream desktop processor and our next-generation of high-end desktop processors, the wait will likely be nicely price it,” AMD added.
AMD has dubbed the Ryzen 9 3950X because the “world first 16-core gaming CPU.” It can characteristic 32 threads, a base three.5 GHz clock velocity, which might boosted to four.7 GHz, and 72MB of complete cache. Count on it to reach for $749.
In the meantime, the corporate’s second-generation Threadripper chip line was priced from $649 as much as $1,799 when it launched a yr in the past.
