AMD's next gen Threadripper Pro 7000-series chips come with up to 96 cores, and I long for consumer versions
It's long been known that AMD is working on its Zen 4-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro lineup. It appears as though the launch is close after some benchmark results for the 32-core Threadripper Pro 7975WX and 96-core 7995WX showed up in the SiSoftware Sandra database.
The results come via @momomo_us. The system in question is a Dell Precision 7875 with two different configurations, but also interesting is that the listing shows many of both chips' specs.
The Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX is a 96-core,192-thread monster of a chip with 12 x 8 core chiplets. Its boost clock is 5.14GHz with a surprisingly high 3.2GHz base clock. As we've come to expect from AMD, the cache amount is impressive, with 96 MB of L2 cache and a whopping 384 MB of L3 cache. It's all but certain the chips will support 8-channel DDR5 memory.
The Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7975WX is a little more worldly with 32-cores and 64-threads. The listing reports a strange 4.0GHz/4.0GHz clock speed, so this is probably a reporting error, though a 4.0GHz base clock looks about right. It includes 32 MB of L2 cache and 128 MB of L3 cache.
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The results themselves aren't all that relevant for gaming. Let's just say they blow away their Ryzen Threadripper 5000-series equivalents. But while I'm interested in the chips themselves, the platform they run on is what will have my attention. Yes, I long for the return of a proper HEDT platform.
AMD's Socket TRX4 with the TRX40 chipset was AMD's last consumer HEDT platform. There were some very good motherboards, including the ROG
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