Tuesday, October 3rd 2023
AMD Reportedly Launching Threadripper Pro 7000 Series on October 19
AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 "Storm Peak" CPU series has not received any form of official announcement—we have relied solely on leaks to find out nitty-gritty details about Team Red's Zen 4-based follow-up to the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 lineup. Pre-release samples have been landing online at an increased rate—courtesy of benchmark suite database leaks—with various news sites theorizing that AMD is preparing for an autumn launch window. This prediction is seemingly coming into focus, according to the latest information from insiders at AMD and connected supply chains.
Wccftech reckons that an October 19 launch day has been pencilled in: "Our sources have told us that AMD is all set to unveil its Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 CPU family on the 19th of October. This marks more than 1.5 years since the introduction of the Zen 3-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 CPUs. The new processors will once again be primarily positioned in the premium workstation segment with limited DIY availability. OEMs will be offering their pre-built designs along with DIY TRX50 motherboards from various manufacturers."
Their report continued: "As per leaked information, we can expect a total of five AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000WX CPU SKUs including the 7995WX with 96 Cores, 7985WX with 64 Cores, 7975WX with 32 cores, 7955WX with 16 cores and 7945WX with 12 cores. These are the preliminary specs and all chips will be rated at a maximum TDP of 350 W. The CPUs will be supported on the new TRX50/WRX50 platforms with up to 128 PCIe Gen 5 lanes support & up to 8-channel DDR5 memory support. Leaked benchmarks have also shown some serious gains with the flagship being up to 70% faster than the PRO 5995WX which was limited to just 64 cores."
Wccftech anticipates several improvements arriving with AMD's next generation HEDT family:
Sources:
Wccftech (source & chart), VideoCardz (chart)
Wccftech reckons that an October 19 launch day has been pencilled in: "Our sources have told us that AMD is all set to unveil its Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 CPU family on the 19th of October. This marks more than 1.5 years since the introduction of the Zen 3-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 CPUs. The new processors will once again be primarily positioned in the premium workstation segment with limited DIY availability. OEMs will be offering their pre-built designs along with DIY TRX50 motherboards from various manufacturers."
Wccftech anticipates several improvements arriving with AMD's next generation HEDT family:
- New Zen 4 Core Architecture
- Up To 96 Cores / 192 Threads
- New TRX50/WRX50 Platform (Storm Peak)
- Up To 350 W TDP Designs Across All SKUs
- 8-Channel & 4-Channel DDR5 Memory Support
- Up To 128 PCIe Gen 5.0 Lanes
- Up To 384 MB of L3 Cache / 480 MB Full Pool
- Up To 75% Faster Than Threadripper 5000WX
49 Comments on AMD Reportedly Launching Threadripper Pro 7000 Series on October 19
Any normal WRX80 board doesn't do that.
The fact that the 7995WX has 128 lanes is interesting does it mean that there maybe other chips in the works with more channels & lanes?
because I honestly think that 64 lanes & only 8 channel is sort of a joke.
WRX50 would be a joke compared to the WRX80.
should be WRX90
Requiring 10Gb+ connectivity, capability of running say 2 Accelerators for ML while having extra memory bandwidth and core count.
Also its good for SMBs running Socket level licencing on certain software. Only way to get more than 32 threads without stepping into Xeon/EPYC territory
Interesting to see how a 7995WX with 96 Cores benches though and what's the maximum installable ram?
I have an older 48-core machine that still easily beats modern CPUs with less cores when rebuilding FreeBSD or the Linux kernel.
That motherboard alone, makes me want to see what the leap from Threadripper to Xeon would actually be like. Just for the reason of a smaller format worksation.
For me,
Reasons not using regular Ryzen:
- MOAR RAM
- MOAR PCI-E
- MOAR Storage
Reasons not going for EPYC:
- Richer features on the TR motherboards, for the same price, server boards usually had fewer & 'skinny' features and expect the user to add them as add-on cards.
- Looks, I put this server in a regular PC case with glass side panel, so the looks actually matters.
- More robust motherboard heatsinks on the TR motherboards, since I am using it in a regular PC case, it won't be getting the high volume of air in a rack environment, so the skinny heatsinks on the server motherboards might not be enough.
So, in my point of view.
I think the Threadrippers are for the user who wants a server, but also wants the server
- Had richer motherboard feature from the get go.
- Looks better than a regular server.
- Not being put inside a rack with 10000 rpm hurricane fans.
Also people who probably make actual money from the use of the platform.
I can't wait for the new series to drop so I can see new listings of the older series on ebay which I still can't justify the cost for at the moment.
X399 paired w/ 1950x goes for around $500 if your lucky.It would be neat if they could put them on the backside.
I really want to update to a 5975wx
Just need to wait for them getting cheap......
Plus, smaller boards cannot support 128 Gen5 PCIe lanes.
Plus, you need more memory bandwidth for crunching numbers. Simple.
It presumably also depends on whether you get the EPYC chips with the 1.1 GB cache.
In any case, if you absolutely need the small mainboard you have no choice. A 96-core CPU with dual-channel will still be faster than a 16-core CPU with dual channel.