ASUS Rep Reveals AMD TR5 Platform For Ryzen Threadripper 7000 “Storm Peak” CPUs Launching In 2H 2023

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ASUS's General Manager, Tony Yu, has revealed in a recent video published over at Bilibili that AMD will be launching its TR5 platform for the next-gen Ryzen Threadripper 7000 "Storm Peak" CPUs in the second half of 2023.

Previously, it was reported that AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 7000 HEDT CPUs will hit retail shelves by September of this year. Now, ASUS itself has revealed that this might indeed be the case since the company's rep, Tony Yu, has pointed out a 2H 2023 launch for the next-gen Threadripper chips that are codenamed Storm Peak.

The video is quite interesting since it compares Intel's recently released Xeon W9-3495X Flagship Sapphire Rapids CPU against the AMD Threadripper Pro 5995WX chip. Both chips trade blows vs each other but Intel's Xeon CPU consumes way more power. Although the platform has its own advantages, Tony states that those might be a thing of the past later this year when Threadripper 7000 HEDT CPUs come out on the TR5 platform and offer more cores, more I/O & just better CPU performance/efficiency.

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 7000 HEDT CPUs will come in both Workstation and HEDT flavors. The Workstation family will enter the top segment with 8-channel DDR5 memory support, up to 128 PCIe Gen 5 lanes, and 8 PCIe Gen 3 lanes but will lack OC capabilities for both CPU & memory. The HEDT segment is where users will get OC support for both CPU and memory but the platform will feature support for 4-channel DDR5 memory and offer up to 64 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes. Following is how the lineups will stack up in the HEDT segment:

For the workstation segment, we have:

It remains to be seen whether AMD will deliver the full 96-core Zen 4 parts on the HEDT family but if they do, that will mark a major blow to Intel's Xeon