Lots of cores, cache, and, er... cash.
Baldur's Gate 3AMD's Threadripper Pro 7000-series CPUs are launching very soon. While they might not seem all that relevant to gamers—at least the high core count options anyway—I am very much an advocate for proper high-end desktop platforms and would love to see consumer level Threadripper make a return., AMD plans to unveil Threadripper Pro CPUs on October 19th. These chips will be based on the Zen 4 architecture led by the range-topping 7995WX with 96 cores and 192 threads.
Even the 64-core 7985WX and and 32-core 7975WX chips aren't that gamery, but if AMD is to launch 24-core, 16-core and 12-core options, then I'm very much paying attention. Admittedly, a TDP of 350W is high, but I can't see how a sub 64-core Threadripper would go anywhere near that. That's a lot of heat to dissipate. AMD promotes the 16-coreGames themselves don't really take advantage of high core counts. An eight-core chip with lots of cache and a high clock speed is still king, as is the case with AMD'sThere's speculation that there will be a TRX50 platform with quad channel memory support.
Add 10GbE, Wi-Fi 7, USB4 and anything else you can think of, and I'd be lusting after it. As for the cost? Well, that's where I have to come back to Earth. Threadripper Pro 7000-series CPUs and motherboards will be very expensive. There's no doubt about that, and any consumer-facing variant likewise.
Let's see what AMD launches on October 19th. I'd expect AMD to follow a similar release cadence to what we saw with 5000-series Threadripper. Initially, it was a Lenovo exclusive, before DIY options and WRX80 motherboards appeared later. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsChris' gaming experiences go back to the mid-nineties when he conned his parents into buying an 'educational PC' that was conveniently overpowered to play Doom and Tie Fighter.
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