We finally have some news on the Ryzen 3 and Threadripper and it comes directly from AMD’s CEO Lisa Su in a video they just released. In the video, they have officially announced the clock speeds and cores that both this processor will have and a benchmark of the Threadripper against the Intel Core i9-7900X and the results were very impressive.
First, let’s look at the Threadripper which was made for the high-end desktops. The first variant is a 12-core 32-thread model that was previously announced and another 12-core 32-thread model. Both these processors will be running on the new TR4 Socket, quad channel DDR4, and feature 64 lanes of PCI Express. The 16-core variant is clocked at 3.4 GHz with precision boost to 4.0 GHz and the 12-core variant will have a base clock of 3.5 GHz with precision boost to 4.0 GHz.
AMD is on track to release the Threadripper and motherboards in early August, with the Alienware Area-51 Threadripper Edition System pre-orders starting July 27. The Ryzen Threadripper 1950X will retail for $999 (RM4289.76) and the 1920X will retail for $799 (RM3430.95).