Dienstag, 7. August 2018

AMD’s new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs are really quite nippy

In the great ‘CPU core-off’ at Computex 2018 (and contest for most ridiculous promo art), AMD definitely came home the winner. Their monstrous 32-core 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper not only had more core doodads than Intel’s mysterious 28-core effort, but it was also destined for actual, real-life PCs owned by regular humans, not corporate enterprise servers that are presumably controlled by heartless robots.

Well, that 32-core Threadripper (and I still can’t get over the fact they called them THREADRIPPERS) is now finally available for pre-order – and it’s so damn fast that AMD are proclaiming it’s broken the world record-for the Cinebench R15 benchmark with the highest scores ever for a single-socket desktop CPU.

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