AMD has finally returned to the high end desktop segment with the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series, available to consumers on 21 November with a USD1,499 starting price.
debuted the Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series a number of years ago, it was seen as some of the best HEDT CPUs in the market thanks to both its performance and supposed long platform support. Well, AMD eventually forgot to support it and took a break from the consumer HEDT market altogether, but that’s changing now as AMD has now launched the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series along with Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 WX processors for enterprise users.
Starting off with the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series for enthusiast users. there are three options for you to choose from here, all of which are overclockable, support quad-channel DDR5 ECC memory, 48 PCIe 5.0 lanes and require a TDP of 350W. The top dog here is the Ryzen Threadripper 7980X, which has 64 cores and 128 threads running at 2.5GHz base frequency with boosts of up to 5.1GHz and 256MB of L3 cache.
As for the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 WX lineup, these enterprise-focused processors feature more PCIe 5 lanes and support for eight memory channels, as well as higher core counts at the very high end of the product stack. In total, the Threadripper Pro 7000 WX series has six SKUs here, all of which require a TDP of 350W, support 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes and support eight lanes of DDR5 memory.