96 core AMD Threadripper Pro 7000-series chips reportedly ready for launch on October 19

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AMD'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 (HEDT) platforms and would love to see consumer level Threadripper make a return.

According to Wccftech, 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. Add to that 384MB of L3 cache and you're looking at an absolute monster of a chip. Of course such a chip isn't particularly relevant for gamers when most game engines struggle to make use of today's 16-core AMD CPUs. 

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-core Ryzen 9 7950X3D as its ultimate consumer level CPU, but with a 120W TDP, it's definitely power limited.

Games 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's Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Intel's Core i9 13900K with its eight Performance cores. But the CPU alone makes up just one part of the platform. 

There's speculation that there will be a TRX50 platform with quad channel memory support. That's broadly similar to what we saw with AMD's Ryzen 3000-series Threadripper and accompanying TRX40 platform. I mean, just look at a board like the Asus ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha! I was