Wednesday, March 22nd 2023
AMD to Release Threadripper 7000 and TR5 Platform in the Second Half of 2023
AMD is preparing a rather late counter to the Xeon W-2400 and W-3400 series "Sapphire Rapids" workstation platform with the Threadripper 7000 series and the Socket TR5 platform, in the second half of 2023, according to an ASUS product manager. While high core-count Threadripper Pro 5000WX processors still offer performance competitive to the latest Xeon W processors, the Intel platform offers the latest I/O, including support for faster DDR5 memory and PCIe Gen 5. The expectation with the Threadripper 7000 "Storm Peak" series is to increase CPU core IPC with the switch to "Zen 4," and introduce support for the latest DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5.
AMD's delay in releasing the Threadripper 7000 series has to do with the company wanting to push more high-margin EPYC "Genoa" processors to its large enterprise customers first; and possibly to take the time to redraw its platform to better counter the sub-classification Intel introduced within its Xeon W family, where the W-2400 series is targeted more toward the HEDT consumer, with its 4-channel memory and 64-lane PCIe interface; while the W-3400 series with its 8-channel memory interface, targets serious workstation use-cases; while both processors share a common socket and chipset. AMD could take a similar approach to the TR5 platform.
Sources:
HXL (Twitter), VideoCardz
AMD's delay in releasing the Threadripper 7000 series has to do with the company wanting to push more high-margin EPYC "Genoa" processors to its large enterprise customers first; and possibly to take the time to redraw its platform to better counter the sub-classification Intel introduced within its Xeon W family, where the W-2400 series is targeted more toward the HEDT consumer, with its 4-channel memory and 64-lane PCIe interface; while the W-3400 series with its 8-channel memory interface, targets serious workstation use-cases; while both processors share a common socket and chipset. AMD could take a similar approach to the TR5 platform.
12 Comments on AMD to Release Threadripper 7000 and TR5 Platform in the Second Half of 2023
They F'd up BIG time with the TR4 even though they supported the AM4 from beggining to end
ZEN4 or RL I\O to this segment is a joke.
It is good that they focus on their profit and give EYPC most of the resource, as long as TR7000 indeed will arrive withing 3-6 month. They will probably scramble-egg Sapphire Rapids but arriving too late will be a missed opportunity.
my guess is a lot of creator software benefits Intel, so this is really a DOA market for AMD which is why they don't really give it much attention?
"Overall, the new AMD Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series processors are terrific for a wide range of content creation applications. Across the board, they are anywhere from moderately to significantly faster than the previous generation Threadripper PRO 3000 WX-Series, and handily beat their main competition from Intel: the Xeon W-3300 series. Even better, unlike the Xeon W line, the 5000WX processors rarely needed to use the "High Performance" power profile in order to get the best performance."
TR 5000WX also hold against thenew Sapphire Rapids in some cases.
The area where it is very single sided is NV-AMD GPU front. CUDA is a must in many workstation\HEDT cases so NV is the only option (but that is a bit off-topic).
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F' the PoPo.
Workstations it is, especially with ATX format boards. Desktops.
If they release non-Pro Threadripper this time around you can also use unbuffered RAM, which theoretically should be cheaper than registered RAM (although in practice it often isn't).