AMD's upcoming, high-end Threadripper Ryzen CPUs are monstrously large for a processor, but they bring the performance too, looking to tackle Intel's top-end processors and possibly set to win too. However, far bigger than the processors themselves are the boxes they come in. They're larger than a mini-ITX PC and could well be the biggest processor boxes ever released.
Sporting a big Ryzen logo, the 1920X and 1950X Threadripper Ryzen chips are set to release this August and will make a big splash when they do. That's not just if you throw the enormous box into a pool though. Specifications wise, they sport 12 cores and 16 cores respectively, doubling those counts with threads thanks to AMD's introduction of multithreading - a feature that has been an Intel exclusive for well over a decade.
Their base clock speeds will be 3.5GHz, boosting up to 4.0GHz as and when required. Their price tags are $800 and $1000 respectively.
They'll make a big impact for hardware enthusiasts and on the industry as a whole, as Intel is expected to ramp up its own offerings to try and counter the surprisingly competitive AMD hardware, which has trailed the chip giant in performance since the Pentium 4/AMD 64+ era.
AMD clearly wants these chips to be eye catching on store shelves too though, as that box is simply enormous. It will be interesting to see if that has an effect on sales, as despite these being monstrously powerful chips, at the $1,000 mark they aren't going to sell a tonne. They should outsell Intel's i9 series though, which although comparatively powerful, sell for more than 50 percent more.
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