AMD’s new 24-core Ryzen Threadripper processor goes on sale October 29

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX

AMD has announced that a couple of new Threadripper 2nd Generation processors, one of which will be a 24-core beast, will go on sale October 29.

These are the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX and the 2920X, to be precise. The 2970WX is a top-end CPU with 24-cores (48-threads) and it has a base clock of 3GHz with boost to 4.2GHz, along with 64MB of cache and a TDP of 250W.

So, in terms of the core specs, it’s the same as the flagship Threadripper 2990WX, except with 24 rather than 32-cores. Naturally, it’ll be cheaper too, with the recommended price pitched at $1,299 (around £995, AU$1,840) – as opposed to $1,799 (around £1,380, AU$2,550) for the 2990WX, so it’s nearly a third cheaper, in fact.

As mentioned, this processor will be on shelves come October 29, along with the Threadripper 2920X, which is pitched at desktop enthusiasts, sporting 12-cores (24-threads), clocked at 3.5GHz (as previously rumored) with a boost to 4.3GHz, and with 32MB of cache and a TDP of 180W.

This chip will retail at a considerably more affordable $649 (around £500, AU$920), and both processors are compatible with AMD’s motherboards running the X399 chipset, which the company is billing as the ‘ultimate desktop platform’ for PC enthusiasts.

Cores for applause

A 12-core CPU pitched at $649 (around £500, AU$920) is certainly a tempting prospect for those who want a beefy processor for their powerful rig without paying the world, relatively speaking. When you compare it to Intel’s Core i9-7920X 12-core offering, that’s priced at around $1,130 online at the time of writing (just under £1,000 in the UK, or about AU$1,600).

Don’t forget that AMD is also unleashing Dynamic Local Mode at the end of the month, which the freshly released high-end Threadripper 2970WX (and existing 2990WX) will benefit from.

This feature will shift the most demanding app threads to CPU cores with local memory access, and could provide a big performance boost for some applications and also games.

Indeed, AMD has previously boasted of almost 50% gains in Battlefield 1 with ‘ultra’ detail settings using the 2990WX when Dynamic Local Mode is turned on. That’s a best case scenario, and it’s AMD’s own internal testing, but still, it very much sounds like this could be a major boon for those who enjoy their eye candy levels turned right up.

Via Anandtech

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Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - 'I Know What You Did Last Supper' - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).

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