AMD Releases Ryzen Threadripper PRO, professional CPU series

AMD yesterday launched the professional CPU "Ryzen Threadripper PRO" series for the global market, actually, the series has been announced last year already, but will become commercially available this month.

For Ryzen Threadripper PRO the memory channels are doubled from 4 channels to 8 channels based on the 3rd generation Ryzen Threadripper. In addition, the number of lanes of PCI-Express 4.0 has been expanded to 128, and security functions such as AMD Secure Processor and AMD Memory Guard have been added.

The 64 cores / 128 threads "Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX" (base 2.7GHz / maximum 4.2GHz / total cache 288MB) and 32 cores / 64 threads "Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX" (base 3.5GHz ) have been released this time. / Maximum 4.2GHz / Total cache 144MB), 16 cores / 32 threads "Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3955WX" (Base 3.9GHz / Maximum 4.3GHz / Total cache 72MB) 3 models.

The Ryzen Threadripper PRO are more similar to AMD's Epyc processors, but are positioned for workstation use. You need WRX80 mainboards with the already mentioned sWRX8 socket.

Compared to the “normal” Ryzen Threadripper models, they have a slightly lower clock rate, but they also offer eight active memory channels and 128 PCI Express 4.0 lanes. In addition, they are released for up to 2 terabytes of RAM.