AMD has announced its newest Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Sequence of CPUs at Computex right now. The 9000 Sequence and 9000 WX-Sequence are constructed for the demanding workstation market, and the highest Threadripper Professional 9995WX will ship with 96 cores and 192 threads.
This flagship Threadripper chip is designed for professionals who’re engaged on visible results, simulations, and AI mannequin growth. The Threadripper Professional 9995WX additionally has as much as 384MB of L3 cache and 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 5, making it preferrred to pair with a number of GPUs.
AMD claims that the Threadripper Professional 9995WX is 2.2x quicker than Intel’s 60-core Xeon W9-3595X processor in Cinebench 2024 multi-threaded rendering.
If you happen to don’t want a 96-core CPU, AMD’s Threadripper 9000 Sequence are additionally focused at fanatics and creators who need workstation-like efficiency. The Ryzen Threadripper 9980X has 64 cores and 128 threads, a base frequency of three.2GHz, and 320MB of L3 cache.
All of those new Threadripper chips, professional or not, will run at a thermal design energy (TDP) of 350 watts and can work (after a BIOS replace) on current motherboards that assist the sTR5 socket.
Each Threadripper 9000 Sequence and the Professional WX-Sequence processors shall be out there from retailers in July, however AMD isn’t saying pricing simply but. Given the its high-end 7980X Threadripper CPU retailed at $4,999 in 2023, it’s honest to say these next-gen equivalents shall be round that worth.