96 core AMD Threadripper Professional 7000-series chips reportedly prepared for launch on October 19

AMD’s Threadripper Professional 7000-series CPUs are launching very quickly. Whereas they won’t appear all that related to players—at the very least the excessive core depend choices anyway—I’m very a lot an advocate for correct high-end desktop (HEDT) platforms and would like to see shopper degree Threadripper make a return.

In accordance with Wccftech, AMD plans to unveil Threadripper Professional CPUs on October nineteenth. These chips will likely be primarily based on the Zen 4 structure led by the range-topping 7995WX with 96 cores and 192 threads. Add to that 384MB of L3 cache and also you’re taking a look at an absolute monster of a chip. In fact such a chip is not significantly related for players when most recreation engines battle to utilize at the moment’s 16-core AMD CPUs. 

Even the 64-core 7985WX and and 32-core 7975WX chips aren’t that gamery, but when AMD is to launch 24-core, 16-core and 12-core choices, then I am very a lot paying consideration.

Admittedly, a TDP of 350W is excessive, however I am unable to see how a sub 64-core Threadripper would go wherever close to that. That is quite a lot of warmth to dissipate. AMD promotes the 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X3D as its final shopper degree CPU, however with a 120W TDP, it is positively energy restricted.

Video games themselves do not actually make the most of excessive core counts. An eight-core chip with plenty of cache and a excessive clock velocity continues to be king, as is the case with AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Intel’s Core i9 13900K with its eight Efficiency cores. However the CPU alone makes up only one a part of the platform. 

There’s hypothesis that there will likely be a TRX50 platform with quad channel reminiscence assist. That is broadly just like what we noticed with AMD’s Ryzen 3000-series Threadripper and accompanying TRX40 platform. I imply, simply take a look at a board just like the Asus ROG Zenith II Excessive Alpha! I used to be lucky to assessment one a number of years in the past and, whereas it was just about utter overkill for many of us, I completely beloved it. 

Give me a 16-core Threadripper with 64 PCIe lanes and quad-channel reminiscence assist. Please! Which means you get all of the efficiency of a Ryzen 9 7950X with the advantage of better reminiscence bandwidth and assist for a number of PCIe 5.0 SSDs and a PCIe 5.0 GPU on the identical time. If you wish to add an enlargement card or two, the mainstream platforms are not an possibility because the sparse PCIe lanes of the present AM5 platform get stuffed up actual fast.

Add 10GbE, Wi-Fi 7, USB4 and the rest you’ll be able to consider, and I would be lusting after it. As for the associated fee? Nicely, that is the place I’ve to return again to Earth. Threadripper Professional 7000-series CPUs and motherboards will likely be very costly. There isn’t any doubt about that, and any consumer-facing variant likewise.

Let’s have a look at what AMD launches on October nineteenth. I would count on AMD to observe the same launch cadence to what we noticed with 5000-series Threadripper. Initially, it was a Lenovo unique, earlier than DIY choices and WRX80 motherboards appeared later.  

Threadripper will at all times be a workstation-oriented product, however corporations like Asus and Gigabyte have proven they don’t seem to be averse to creating extremely high-end, low quantity motherboards. Even with workstation chipsets.