Tuesday, June 21st 2022
AMD Announces Expanded Ryzen Threadripper 5000 WX-Series Availability
In March of 2022, AMD released the latest AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series processors with our OEM partner Lenovo and the ThinkStation P620. This legendary capability is now expanding into the Dell Precision 7865 workstation. As AMD continues to expand its workstation business, we're happy to share that Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series processors will be available at leading system integrators worldwide beginning in July, 2022. We also expect to make these processors available to our DIY community later this year.
Threadripper processors have always been a platform that is defined by leadership performance and capability which enables unlimited creative potential. Examining what our most demanding enthusiasts and content creators value most in the platform has led us to unify the Threadripper and Threadripper PRO product lines. Going forward, the Threadripper platform will now use a single "common infrastructure." This means there will be one set of Threadripper PRO processors to choose from, with one CPU socket and chipset, and every processor will be based on AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO silicon.
This also means that all Threadripper processors will natively offer: 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4, 8-channel UDIMM and RDIMM support for more flexible memory configurations, massive L3 cache, plus the benefit of security and manageability features common across the Ryzen PRO processor family. Impressive hardware specs like these are a large part of why Threadripper processors are trusted for enthusiasts and professional creators.
Overclocking Support
In addition to the PRO feature set, users will still have access to the same exciting features that made Threadripper processors a true enthusiast platform. Select WRX80 motherboards from our ODM partners will support both memory and CPU overclocking for users looking to push the limits of their workstation even further.
Upgrading From "Zen 2" To "Zen 3" Core Architecture
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000WX processors are designed for the WRX80 chipset and sWRX8 CPU socket. Customers with a WRX80 chipset-based motherboard will be able to perform a drop-in upgrade to Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series processors after a BIOS update, should they choose to do so.
In this new "one socket" world for "Zen 3" architecture, new motherboards for Threadripper processors will be WRX80 chipset-based. When there is one set of Threadripper processor models, you only need to choose the core count that you want and a motherboard that has the features you need.
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Threadripper processors have always been a platform that is defined by leadership performance and capability which enables unlimited creative potential. Examining what our most demanding enthusiasts and content creators value most in the platform has led us to unify the Threadripper and Threadripper PRO product lines. Going forward, the Threadripper platform will now use a single "common infrastructure." This means there will be one set of Threadripper PRO processors to choose from, with one CPU socket and chipset, and every processor will be based on AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO silicon.
Overclocking Support
In addition to the PRO feature set, users will still have access to the same exciting features that made Threadripper processors a true enthusiast platform. Select WRX80 motherboards from our ODM partners will support both memory and CPU overclocking for users looking to push the limits of their workstation even further.
Upgrading From "Zen 2" To "Zen 3" Core Architecture
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000WX processors are designed for the WRX80 chipset and sWRX8 CPU socket. Customers with a WRX80 chipset-based motherboard will be able to perform a drop-in upgrade to Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series processors after a BIOS update, should they choose to do so.
In this new "one socket" world for "Zen 3" architecture, new motherboards for Threadripper processors will be WRX80 chipset-based. When there is one set of Threadripper processor models, you only need to choose the core count that you want and a motherboard that has the features you need.
Models
12 Comments on AMD Announces Expanded Ryzen Threadripper 5000 WX-Series Availability
While AMD tried to give laptops more focus, the fact is things went delayed very much, the mobile APUs were announced in CES, marked for availability in March/April. But most models only came starting in Mid-year, with some models started to appear in September-November, and that's talking about Ryzen 5000 APUs, the same story repeated with Ryzen 6000. I'm yet to find a single Ryzen 6000 laptop in my area/market. APUs general mass availability only comes closer to the release of desktop CPUs with the newer architecture. I mean, Ryzen 4000 (Zen2) laptops only started mass availability when Ryzen 5000 (Zen3) was released, and now, Ryzen 6000 laptops (Zen3+) might get mass availability only after Ryzen 7000 (Zen4) desktop get released, and we might get the same situation with Ryzen 7000 laptops APUs.
Thredripper is worst, the CPUs are only released to OEMs after months of desktop Ryzen release, and DIY market will wait for even longer till the next architecture comes, Zen2 Threadripper came to DIY only after Zen3 Ryzens were released, and now Zen3 Threadripper will come mostly after Zen4 Ryzens are out. I know this to make sure that enough silicons went to Ryzens before TR as it is a much larger market than TR even though TR has much better profits.
With AMD getting more more silicon from TSMC, they're putting more orders each year because demand is getting higher than what originally ordered. I hope things will be easier with Zen4 with general mass availability of both desktop Ryzen and laptop APUs are more aggressive than before. And actually releasing Zen4 based TR sooner and earlier than Zen5. The other thing is while AMD is really getting more silicon from TSMC, they're also releasing Desktop Ryzens along Radeons as well. So I hope they're getting the balance good between the two.
I bet them releaseing Zen3 based TR to DIY now is directly related to Intel finally trying to bring something to HEDT (but knowing Intel's sliding release dates i would not hold my breath).
It is very possible that AMD will begin to lag behind and lose its competitiveness unless begins to prepare also E-core equivalent cores.
Knowing Intel's sliding release dates im sure AMD will a have the answer by the time Intel really releases something.
Currently supposedly AMD will increase core counts with Zen5. 2024 most likely.
AMD does not really need E-Cores. Their main cores are power efficient.
Let's first see the 16-C/32-T Zen 4 Raphael against the 24-C/32-T Raptor Lake.
I would not write off AMD as Zen 5 will be a massive architectural change. If AMD can pack more cores into the same area and still meet performance metrics I can't see why they wouldn't. It's expecially important for mobile which is why Arrow Lake is such a big deal for Intel. That is a mobile centric architecture and how Intel intends to take on Apple's Mx SoC.