AMD announced their 3rd gen threadripper at CES 2020 everyone was awestruck by the sheer amount of performance it promised with an groundbreaking amount of 64 cores and 128 threads making it the first consumer grade 64 core CPU. T 3990x is now available on Newegg and mircocentre along with some prebuilt pcs with the likes of origin(https://www.originpc.com/) and maingear(https://maingear.com/). You can get your hands on one of this beast at a price of 3990$(£3699,INR284,606).
AMD 3990x comes with an insane core of 64 cores and 128 threads built on 7nm ZEN2 technology featuring 288 MB of total cache with 88 PCIe gen4 lanes to meet large GPU and nvme needs and a TDP of 280W. It comes with a base clock of 2.9GHz and single boost clock of 4.3GHz.
Obviously for a price like this even the best gaming pc won’t be rocking this beast and it is clear that AMD is targeting professional workstations like film industry, 3D designing with the 3990x
Team red is now competing with itself in the flagship CPU market as the 3970x itself outperformed the dual Intel xenon W-3175x processors. AMd’s 3990x will give Intel sleepless nights for a long time as they have rolled into even mobile CPU market with their 4000 series CPU now capturing laptop market which was dominated by Intel for a long time.
The benchmark is not optimised for 32 or more CPU core despite that it performed 33825 score of multithreded performance and highest single core performance also.
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