AMD has confirmed the existence of its rumored Threadripper Ryzen CPUs by showing off a very real chip at Computex, with AMD's Jim Anderson even going so far as to confirm a few specifications which continues to heat up the battle for this year's CPU consumer dollars.
The CPU itself was rather large compared to consumer chips of the past, but we knew that anyway. Threadripper hardware isn't AM4 compatible, but will instead require its own X399 chipset motherboards sporting the TR4 socket, of which Asus has shown off its first version of a compatible board at Computex. Alongside that hardware, the Threadripper chips don't look quite so mammoth, but their specifications are certainly impressive.
Anderson confirmed that they would have a full 64 lanes of PCIEXpress 3.0 across the full range, much more than the 28-44 lanes that Intel's upcoming Core i9 CPUs will have. He went on to say that all chips from the new range would support quad-channel DDR4, which again trumps Intel, where some of its lower end Xtreme Edition CPUs would only support dual-channel DDR4.
To show off the performance of the new Threadripper hardware, AMD launched the same Blender render demo it used to originally show off the first range of Ryzen CPUs. With as many as 32 threads in action under Threadripper though, the demo took less than 10 seconds to complete, showing that the multithreaded support with the new AMD hardware is almost unpararrelled.
As PCGamesN points out, the CPU head to head between Intel and AMD later this year is going to be close and that makes things very interesting for us consumers.
Expect Ryzen Threadripper chips to launch sometime later this summer.
