By Darren Allan
AMD has confirmed that it is bringing out a ‘Threadripper’ 16-core (32-thread) processor aimed at enthusiasts and high-end desktop PCs, promising blistering performance from the chip.
Jim Anderson, Senior VP and General Manager, Computing and Graphics at AMD, trumpeted the arrival of the monster processor at the firm’s financial analyst day.
Anderson said that: “Ryzen Threadripper is targeted at the absolute ultra high-end of performance in desktop.”
The slide that AMD shared was brief on details, simply showing the number of cores and threads of the flagship model, and stating that Threadripper chips would arrive in the summer, and that the range was “targeting the world’s fastest ultra-premium desktop systems”. No actual specs were mentioned save for the core-count.
Ryzen shine
We’ve heard plenty of rumors about Threadripper or Ryzen 9 CPUs before, of course, and indeed there was a major leak yesterday, which suggested that the 16-core flagship Ryzen 9 1998X will have a base clock of 3.5GHz (with boost to 3.9GHz) and a TDP of 155W.
That remains to be seen, but if true, it’s certainly a beefy base clock speed for a 16-core chip, and some equally impressive work on the power efficiency front.
It’ll certainly be a major worry for Intel in …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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