AMD brings Threadripper back to the desktop with a new non-Pro range of monster chips... that I'm going to now call Wallet-ripper
It's long been expected that AMD would announce a Zen 4-based, Ryzen 7000-series Threadripper Pro family. That announcement date is today. But while Threadripper Pro was expected, less expected was the announcement of the return of non-Pro Threadripper for desktops after killing it in the last generation. AMD has done just that, saying «We hear you, you're right, we brought it back.»
It has now announced three new CPUs and accompanying TRX50 chipset motherboards. So, the high end desktop is back, with a super high price of entry, though you'll have to wait a few weeks as availability is scheduled for November 21.
AMD announced three of these non-Pro HEDT chips. They are the $4,999 64-core 7980X, the $2,499 32-core 7970X, and the $1,499 24-core 7960X. AMD will launch six Threadripper Pro models and accompanying WRX90 motherboards too for the really serious CPU users. The Pro range is topped by the 7995WX, a 96-core monster of a chip, which you can also use in the non-Pro motherboards, too.
There will also be 64, 32, and 24-core options, and interestingly, 16 and 12 core chips too. The price of the latter pair will be interesting to see considering the standard Ryzen desktop has the same spec CPUs right now.
The Ryzen Threadripper 7980X is the current flagship of the non-Pro range. It sports 64-cores and 128-threads of processing horsepower. It packs in a total of 320MB of cache, and that's made up of 256MB of L3 and 64MB of L2 cache. The big news with this Threadripper generation is that it's got a 5.1GHz maximum boost clock, which is much higher than previous generations, giving it some pretty good lightly threaded capabilities too. TDP is 350W.
The 32-core, 64-thread 7970X, with half the core count of its big brother,
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