It is lengthy been identified that AMD is engaged on its Zen 4-based Ryzen Threadripper Professional lineup. It seems as if the launch is shut after some benchmark results for the 32-core Threadripper Professional 7975WX and 96-core 7995WX confirmed up within the SiSoftware Sandra database.
The outcomes come by way of @momomo_us. The system in query is a Dell Precision 7875 with two completely different configurations, but in addition attention-grabbing is that the itemizing exhibits a lot of each chips’ specs.
The Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7995WX is a 96-core,192-thread monster of a chip with 12 x 8 core chiplets. Its increase clock is 5.14GHz with a surprisingly excessive 3.2GHz base clock. As we have come to anticipate from AMD, the cache quantity is spectacular, with 96 MB of L2 cache and a whopping 384 MB of L3 cache. It is all however sure the chips will help 8-channel DDR5 reminiscence.
The Ryzen Threadripper Professional 7975WX is a bit more worldly with 32-cores and 64-threads. The itemizing stories a wierd 4.0GHz/4.0GHz clock pace, so that is most likely a reporting error, although a 4.0GHz base clock appears to be like about proper. It contains 32 MB of L2 cache and 128 MB of L3 cache.
The outcomes themselves aren’t all that related for gaming. Let’s simply say they blow away their Ryzen Threadripper 5000-series equivalents. However whereas I am within the chips themselves, the platform they run on is what could have my consideration. Sure, I lengthy for the return of a correct HEDT platform.
AMD’s Socket TRX4 with the TRX40 chipset was AMD’s final shopper HEDT platform. There have been some excellent motherboards, together with the ROG Zenith II Extreme and Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Xtreme. They have been impractical for many customers, however very fascinating for those who may make use of their capabilities.
The primary cause HEDT rocks? Aside from the advantages of excessive core counts, it is all in regards to the PCIe lanes. Present AMD AM5 and Intel LGA 1700 platforms are restricted by their low PCIe lane counts. For a gamer working a single GPU and a single SSD, it isn’t an issue, however if you wish to add a number of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, a GPU working at x16, plus an growth card or two, you are out of luck with mainstream platforms.
Now that video games, working techniques and drivers are higher optimized for prime core rely CPUs than they have been on the time of Threadripper 1000, now could be the time for HEDT to make a come again.
For those who’ve received deep pockets, and also you recreation, create, and stream all on the similar time, then there is a use case for the platform. Whether or not we’ll ever see it’s one other matter. Such techniques won’t ever be offered in excessive quantity and the R&D value could be excessive.
A Threadripper 7000-series system with a 32-core CPU sounds fairly good to me. Add an RTX 4090, two or three PCIe 5.0 x4 SSDs, a sound card, 10G LAN, WiFi 7, and USB4 all working at full pace with out compromise, and I might be a contented gamer. Albeit a poor one after dropping the money on that lot.
As for whether or not we’ll ever see the return of shopper stage HEDT, I suppose I am going to should hold dreaming.
