Thursday, December 23rd 2021
AMD Threadripper Pro 5000 Series Spec Leaks
There has been some discussion as to whether or not AMD would launch any Zen 3 based Threadripper processors or not, considering that the desktop processors have been out for well over a year by now. According to igor's Lab, we now know that AMD is very close to launching some new 5000-series Threadripper Pro CPU's—codename Chagall—that fits into AMD's sWRX8 socket, which is intended for high-end workstations and servers.
It appears AMD is planning to launch five new CPUs, namely the 5995WX, 5975WX, 5965WX, 5955WX and 5945WX. All of the CPUs appear to have a maximum, single core boost clock of 4550 MHz and range from 12 to 64 cores, with a TDP of 280 W and a power range of 170 to 260 Watts. Up to eight channels of DDR4 3200 MHz is supported and up to 128 PCIe 4.0 are expected to be featured as well. For those hoping there would be an HEDT version, we have bad news, as based on what we've found out independently and the information provided by igor's Lab, there won't be any HEDT Chagall CPUs, at least not at this point in time. This means that the upgrade path for sTRX4 motherboards ended up being as bad as for the older TR4 motherboards, as AMD has now abandoned two HEDT platforms in a row.
Source:
igor's Lab
It appears AMD is planning to launch five new CPUs, namely the 5995WX, 5975WX, 5965WX, 5955WX and 5945WX. All of the CPUs appear to have a maximum, single core boost clock of 4550 MHz and range from 12 to 64 cores, with a TDP of 280 W and a power range of 170 to 260 Watts. Up to eight channels of DDR4 3200 MHz is supported and up to 128 PCIe 4.0 are expected to be featured as well. For those hoping there would be an HEDT version, we have bad news, as based on what we've found out independently and the information provided by igor's Lab, there won't be any HEDT Chagall CPUs, at least not at this point in time. This means that the upgrade path for sTRX4 motherboards ended up being as bad as for the older TR4 motherboards, as AMD has now abandoned two HEDT platforms in a row.
23 Comments on AMD Threadripper Pro 5000 Series Spec Leaks
Doesn't sound right.
Guess they didn't learn from Intel completely screwing the high paying HEDT market.
why would you ever get a threadripper platform if you don’t need the cores, the IO or the memory bandwidth? It would be a bad investment on day one.
the chips can probably boost as far as 5GHz with some tuning. (So not at stock settings).
But regardless, these platforms offer vastly more IO options and ECC, which are very useful for "work" computers.
Threadripper also have much bigger IHS for contact
This is the last HEDT that I have bought from AMD.
many high end x570 boards support ECC so there goes that argument.
The 5950x is faster than the 3970X is quite a few tasks. Many 3D modeling applications will run quicker on the 5950X in everything other than rendering, and only about 30% slower in rendering which is often able to be offloaded to the GPU. In these cases you could easily afford another RTX 3090 for the cost differential and run them at 8x (negligible performance drop in everything especially rendering) for way higher performance on the AM4 platform.
Not everything used on a workstation is purely multi-threaded CPU crunching.
My point was that the upgrade path makes the overall cost of the system much more economical. If one had bought AM4 with the 3950X, you would get 2 additional generations of double-digit performance increases. I would hazard a guess that the 5950X equiv with 3D cache will be knocking on the door of the 3960X for multi-threaded workloads and smashing it in single thread.
AMD should not have stated publicly that the switch from X399 to TRX4 was to improve the upgrade path for the platform. It's becoming quite clear that was not the plan, it was to sell higher priced motherboards.
The change from TR4 was unnessesary as in the server market AMD kept SP3 but still managed to make newer CPU's compatible.
But TR4 was abandoned after two generations and by the looks of it TRX40 had only one.
Not to mention the massive price hike with RTX40 as soon as AMD achieved dominance over Intel in this segment. This is why we need competition. Having any one company dominate a segment is never good for the consumer.
Many power users wants a GPU, 2-4 M.2 SSDs and a 10G NIC, plus many content creators wants capture cards etc.