AMD plots multicore domination with 64-core Threadripper 3990X processor, coming in 2022 - callahanhalwas

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In Oct, AMD launched the Epyc 7H12, a 64-core monster designed to take aim out Intel's Xeon in the server market. Nowadays AMD has confirmed plans for an epyc…er, epic smackdown of Intel in the desktop PC with the 64-core Threadripper 3990X.

Nobelium, AMD's 64-core Threadripper 3990X ISN't quite here—and boy, Intel should thank its lucky stars for that. After AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X danced on Intel's head by topping the Intel Core i9-9900KS in both single-coreand multithreaded carrying out, the 32-core Threadripper 3970X just added insult to injury. And with the 64-core Threadripper 3990X on the visible horizon…wow. Wow. Loom SMASH.

Granted, we don't do it everything about this new break away, including the key metric: the price. A cardinal-digit toll tatter should be expected. But here's what we do have it off about the 3990X:

It bequeath take 64 cores and 128 threads.
Information technology will have 288MB of total cache.
It will consume 280W, the same TDP as the underway Threadripper 3970X.
You won't be able to afford it.

While that closing bullet dot may be an exaggeration, it might not be that far cancelled. Anyone who's up to his neck in rendering or early multithreaded, CPU-qualifier apps will be able to film vantage of AMD's new chip. But AMD's 64-core monstrosity testament plausibly be pricedmanner in a higher place the threshold of the average enthusiast.

AMD signaled the possibility of a 64-core Threadripper break away when it first declared the original Threadripper 3970X, based on the TRX40 chopine and the untried sTRX4 socket. That platform includes adequate to 72 lanes of PCI Express—just that's PCIe 4.0, rather than the PCIe 3.0 connection that was built into the X399 chipset platform that's apparently on its outlet.

In any event, AMD is touting the new Threadripper 3990X as the "one Processor to normal them all." We'll have to waitress until 2020, though, to see if Intel bends the knee.

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