TECH NEWS – Perhaps it is the reason why AMD has delayed the Ryzen 3 Threadripper lineup.

A few days ago, Igor’s Lab leaked the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5000 Pro list, which consists of five products. Up to 64 cores, 256 MB of cache, 280 watts of power consumption, all built on the Zen 3 architecture. There’s no 6-nanometer node optimization and no dedicated 3D V-Cache, but the 2P configuration makes them attractive. It’s identical to Intel’s 2S: the “reds” can put two processors on a motherboard if they can get support from their manufacturers. And, of course, two processors can deliver much higher performance.

The PassMark result was discovered by TomsHardware, and it appears that two Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX processors were tested, each with 64 cores. The two processor solution resulted in a 44% increase in performance. 123631 points vs 85365, 3661 MB/s vs 1792 in compression, and more stats are available on TomsHardware.

It’s fair to say that the jump in performance isn’t that significant. Still, for synthetic benchmarks, not many of AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro processors can take advantage of all 64 cores, so utilizing 128 seems even more of a future-proof solution. For workstation users, a new performance category will open up: more than 100 cores, up to 4 terabytes (!) of memory (sixteen channels, eight per chip), and lots and lots of PCIe lanes.

Oh, and don’t forget, there is currently no motherboard on the market that supports the dual Ryzen Threadripper Pro processor solution, but AMD is already working with manufacturers on it. The 2P socket direction will be a reality. (There are many such dual-processor motherboards for AMD’s EPYC server platform from Gigabyte or Supermicro, for example…) AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 processors are rumoured to launch in March, so there’s a chance AMD could talk about them at CES 2022…

Source:WCCFTech