The little-loved child finally makes it onto the market: Threadripper 5000. But there's a catch, because there won't be a HEDT variant for the desktop, only workstations are served with the Pro version. And here it is again just a converted Epyc processor.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper has changed
On November 5, 2020 AMD released the Zen 3 processors on the market, today, 488 days later, the Threadripper is finally available. Started in 2017 as a flagship project for the HEDT segment, nothing is left of it now. The initial driving forces behind the project have been gone for years, with Jim Anderson leaving in 2018 to become CEO at Lattice Semiconductor and James Prior joining SiFive. The remnants of the HEDT idea, which were already planned in advance, have remained, although in the last generation this is only a miserable one. High End Desktop (HEDT) is dead for now.
The workstation market, on the other hand, is lively and growing enormously, AMD explains. Here, AMD has over 300 customers who rely on the platform, from a dozen car manufacturers to cloud providers and the software and gaming industries. This clientele is higher caliber than the small customer base for HEDT processors would be, which is why AMD's focus has shifted to this segment.
This is AMD Threadripper Pro 5000WX
The new Threadripper processors for the professional market bring significantly more performance in the new generation, which is based on two pillars: The Zen 3 architecture achieves around 17 percent higher performance per clock than the predecessor Zen 2, and the maximum clock also increases up to 300 MHz – according to AMD/Lenovo, it should be up to 25 percent more performance. However, the base clock remains almost identical, which is due to the same TDP of 280 watts. The complete equipment of the platform does not change either. At least this ensures that the CPUs should also work on previous boards – provided the BIOS is updated.
However, AMD has brought a small surprise with it: the return of the 24-core processor. Recently, AMD hardly saw a market for this, just like for a 48-core processor, but while the processor with 48 cores was still available, the model with 24 cores did not exist in the 3000 series. But since Intel continues to tend to place CPUs with around 20 cores in the middle, a 24-core processor fits in pretty well.
Lenovo once again the exemplary partner< /h2>
The Threadripper Pro 3000 were already launched together with Lenovo, and today they are again the first to be involved. The ThinkStation P620 adopts all the parameters of the 24-kilogram predecessor tower, but optionally gets updated hardware that was not available 1.5 years ago, such as the Nvidia RTX A6000, twice the number of which are installed can. The new edition should be available by the end of this month.
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Lenovo ThinkStation P620 (Image: Lenovo)
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Lenovo ThinkStation P620 (image: Lenovo)
Update 06/20/2022 4:32 p.m.
To date, the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 has only been available in the Lenovo ThinkStation P620, as announced in March; from July 2022, the series will also be available to other OEMs and system integrators . AMD reported this.
In 2022 still available separately
In addition, the Threadripper with up to 64 Zen -3 cores will also be available separately for the “DIY market” in the course of the year. Already available mainboards with WRX80 chipset should be made fit via BIOS update.
Under the heading “Simplifying the Platform”, AMD also confirms that in the future there will only be one Threadripper series that will match the current Pro models on the large socket with 8-channel -Memory interface conforms. Selected boards should also allow CPU and RAM OC on this platform. The already promised Threadripper 7000 based on Zen 4 will also be a Pro model that is designed for use in workstations and not in HEDT PCs.
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