Posted on Monday, May 15 2017 @ 18:02 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
WCCF Tech writes there will be at least nine "Threadripper" CPUs from AMD and that these chips will use Ryzen 9 series branding.
The low-end Ryzen 9 parts offers ten cores with twenty threads, while the highest-end versions offers sixteen cores and thirty two threads. All nine models reportedly offer 44 PCIe lanes as well as quad-channel DDR4 memory support.
The Ryzen 9 series will require a new motherboard with the X399 chipset and will have a TDP of 125W for the lower-end models and 155W for the flagship versions. Threadripper reportedly uses the SP3r2 socket, which is derived from the 32-core Naples server parts.
The whitehaven platform offers more I/O, storage, significantly more cores, threads and L3 Cache compared to Intel’s upcoming X299 high-end desktop platform as well as the current mainstream X370 and Z370 platforms. Ryzen has established AMD’s Zen architecture as the most power efficient x86 micro architecture to date in the mainstream. Extending that power efficiency lead to the enthusiast and prosumer ends of the market with Threadripper and Whitehaven puts AMD in a very strong competitive position.
| Ryzen 9 CPU | Cores/Threads | Base/Boost Clock Speed | TDP | Memory | PCIe Lanes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998X | 16/32 | 3.5/3.9GHz | 155W | Quad Channel DDR4 | 44 |
| 1998 | 16/32 | 3.2/3.6GHz | 155W | Quad Channel DDR4 | 44 |
| 1977X | 14/28 | 3.5/4.0GHz | 155W | Quad Channel DDR4 | 44 |
| 1977 | 14/28 | 3.2/3.7GHz | 140W | Quad Channel DDR4 | 44 |
| 1976X | 14/28 | 3.6/4.1GHz | 140W | Quad Channel DDR4 | 44 |
| 1956X | 12/24 | 3.2/3.8GHz | 125W | Quad Channel DDR4 | 44 |
| 1956 | 12/24 | 3.0/3.7GHz | 125W | Quad Channel DDR4 | 44 |
| 1955X | 10/20 | 3.6/4.0GHz | 125W | Quad Channel DDR4 | 44 |
| 1955 | 10/20 | 3.1/3.7GHz | 125W | Quad Channel DDR4 | 44 |
AMD is expected to introduce these chips at a press event at Computex at the end of this month.
