Friday, August 31, 2018

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X wants to be your next processor

We need all the cores!

Welp, it's time to upgrade your PC because AMD's newest processor, the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X, is now available on Amazon and Newegg for $899. It's a powerful 16-core processor that runs between 3.5 and 4.4 GHz.

If $899 seems like a lot, remember the Threadripper 1950X, the previous generation, released at $1,100. This is already $200 cheaper and will get less expensive over time, despite being one of the most powerful processors AMD has ever made.

The 2950X's big sister, the Threadripper 2990WX, has been out there since early August, but that one is designed for the extreme workstation and it's priced to match starting at $1,799. AMD already stunned PC enthusiasts when they released the original 16-core Threadrippers in 2017, but these new processors use AMD's Zen+ micro-architecture and up the ante all the way to 24 and 32 cores. You'd basically need to be in charge of your own $3k+ server farm to get that many cores from Intel.



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