One more photo of Ryzen Threadripper - The Backside

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Okay, who's brave enough and is going to count the contact points?  Austinnotduncan posted a photo on facebook. Don't ask me how they got one to photograph. It's very interesting to see actually as you can clearly see the two eight-core dies  by pin point.



As you can see this is not the standard pin based design but rather a land-grid array (LGA) socket interface, with the pins being located on the motherboard socket, and contact-points on the CPU package.

BTW there's no need to count, it should be 4094-pins as that is the Socket SP3r2 design ;) also referred to as TR4. Originally SP3r2 4094-pin socket was developed for the AMD Naples series processor, but AMD did a 180 and is introducing it also as high-end desktop platform series processors and chipsets. Ryzen Threadripper will bring quad-channel towards the processor series and the most high-end process would get a 155W TDP, 125W for the 10 core parts. AMD Ryzen Threadripper could be available from 27 July, as Alienware is launching their Area 51 models, likely followed closely by a consumer / e-tail release. 


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