AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series Processors

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AMD has officially announced the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series, the latest in its family of high-performance CPUs geared toward workstation users who want to brag about how many cores their processor has. Leveraging the newer Zen 3 architecture, the new products are headlined by the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX, a chip with 64 cores, 128 threads, and a boost/base frequency of up to 4.5/2.7 GHz. There’s bad news for Threadripper fans who have a dislike for Lenovo, however, as the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series is only currently available on ThinkStation P620 machines.



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[Grimlakin]

Ryzen threadripper PRO. Not for DIY unless you have SI connections. No direct sales to consumers.

 

[Brian_B]

Hope you like Lenovo

 

[LazyGamer]

You'd have to be allowed to buy Lenovo in the first place - and being a Chinese company that's probably going to become harder for western enterprises to approve - western governments have stopped buying from them already.

Ryzen threadripper PRO. Not for DIY unless you have SI connections. No direct sales to consumers.

That's why this news, while newsworthy because it means that Zen 3 is finally hitting HEDT, isn't really exciting because it's not the Threadripper line that we're likely to consider using.

I only just switched to Alder Lake myself (12700k) because I was only just able to nab a decent GPU, and well there's no better education with this stuff than hands on. Thing is, with Alder Lake and the Gigabyte board I bought, I have four NVMe slots, 10GbE built in, full Thunderbolt 4 on the I/O panel, and still have a 4x slot I can use without sacrificing PCIe lanes to the GPU.

Like, I get that there are real usecases for having more connectivity, I just can't really see how an enthusiast would find that jump necessary.

 

[Dan_D]

You'd have to be allowed to buy Lenovo in the first place - and being a Chinese company that's probably going to become harder for western enterprises to approve - western governments have stopped buying from them already.

They are a no go at a lot of places I've worked.