Threadripper Packaging revealed.

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AMD have revealed the packaging for the upcoming Ryzen Threadripper as well as keeping fans hyped with repeatedly saying how soon the processor will be coming out.

The new top dog CPU from AMD is set to be "on shelf in early August." With the 10th being thrown around as the possible big day. The packaging certainly is different and while I'm all for some shiny new packaging, I am more interested in what its carrying and how the performance will live up to the hype. Lisa Su, the current CEO of AMD, also sent out her own tweet to show off the packaging and give us all a sense of scale. 

So far, all signs point to Threadripper being a successful release as it is following in its little brothers footsteps, the success of Ryzen 7 and 5 have most people rightfully hopeful of the new 12 & 16 core monsters due out soon. We already knew that the smallest member of the family "Ryzen 3" is due out the 27th of this month but AMD were on hand to remind keen fans of this point. It may not be as flashy as the upcoming Threadripper but I suspect the new R3 to become the new King of budget CPU. Featuring a fully fledged quad core but at a rumored budget price, ~$100, the new R3 1200 & 1300x are all set to take over from Intel's wonderly performing Kaby Lake Pentium range, this of course is depending on that key point of the price

 

 

According to recent reports AMD's upcoming CPU series "Threadripper"  is going to have up to 12/16 cores, 24/32 threads, turbo clock up to 4GHZ and start at $799. 

Here are some tables from anandtech.com. highlighting what we know about the current releases and what we suspect about the upcoming ones.

 

AMD Ryzen CPUs
  Threadripper
1950X		 Threadripper
1920X		 Ryzen 7
1800X
Socket TR4 (LGA)
4094-pin		 AM4 (PGA)
1331-pin
Cores/Threads 16 / 32 12 / 24 8 / 16
Base Frequency 3.4 GHz 3.5 GHz 3.6 GHz
Turbo Frequency 4.0 GHz 4.0 GHz 4.0 GHz
XFR ? (+100?) ? (+100?) +100 MHz
L3 Cache 32 MB 32 MB ? 16 MB
TDP 180W* 180W* 95 W
PCIe 3.0 Lanes 60 + 4 60 + 4 16 + 4 + 4
DRAM Frequency 1DPC ? ? DDR4-2666
2DPC ? ? DDR4-2400
Chipset Support X399 X399 X370
B350
A320
Price (List) $999 $799 $499
Price (Retail) TBD TBD $419
Comparison: Threadripper 1950X vs Core i9-7980XE / Gold 6150
AMD
Threadripper 1950X		 Features Intel
Core i9-7980XE		 Intel
Xeon Gold 6150
16 / 32 Cores/Threads 18 / 36 18 / 36
3.4 / 4.0 GHz Base/Turbo ? 2.7 / 3.7 GHz
60 PCIe 3.0 Lanes 44 44
512 KB/core L2 Cache 1 MB/core 1 MB/core
32 MB L3 Cache 24.75 MB 24.75 MB
180W* TDP ? (165W?) 165W
$999 Price (List) $1999 $3358
Comparison: Threadripper 1920X vs Core i7-7820X / i9-7900X
AMD
Threadripper 1920X		 Features Intel
Core i7-7820X		 Intel
Core i9-7900X
12 / 24 Cores/Threads 8 / 16 10 / 20
3.5 / 4.0 GHz Base/Turbo 3.6 / 4.5 GHz 3.3 / 4.5 GHz
60 PCIe 3.0 Lanes 28 44
512 KB/core L2 Cache 1 MB/core 1 MB/core
32 MB ? L3 Cache 8.25 MB 11 MB
180W TDP 140W 140W
$799 Price (List) $599 $999

 

 

Further reading and sources: videocardz.com,  anandtech.com.

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