| JEMC said: Looks like AMD is really committed to fight with Intel on the HEDT market: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990X Flagship 32 Core, 64 Thread 4.00 GHz CPU Detailed and Benchmarked According to HKEPC’s Senior Editor, John Lam, who got an exclusive look at the 2nd Generation Ryzen Threadripper chip, the flagship part will be known as the Ryzen Threadripper 2990X. The chip will rock 32 cores and 64 threads (...). The chip tested was a B2 stepping with a base clock of 3.4 GHz and a maximum boost clock of 4.0 GHz while the precision boost overdrive clocks are rated at +200 MHz so expect up to 4.20 GHz in single core optimized workloads. Other details include 16 MB of L2 and 64 MB of L3 cache which rounds up to a total of 80 MB of available cache on a single chip. The TDP of the chip as stated before will be kept at 250W and all current generation TR4 socketed boards will be fully compatible with the 2nd generation Ryzen Threadripper processors.
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Oh, this must be that ray tracing coprocessor Machiavellian was talking about. I don't know how Microsoft it going to be able to put one of these into each Scarlet unit though.
I would love one of these, but I want to wait until 7nm before my next upgrade.
