There is very little left for AMD and after a long wait to finally launch its Threadripper 5000 Pro. The launch date of the processor will be at some point in the pnext July 2022. So at the time of writing this news, we still have a few weeks left for its final release. Until now, it was limited to systems such as Lenovo’s ThinkStation P620.
Many of our readers will be surprised by our statements about AMD’s gradual exit from the HEDT market. That of so-called high-powered workstations which generally rely on suitable server processors. The delay in the launch of its Threadripper 5000 compared to other Zen 3-based processors shows us this. If we add to this that there is nothing in its roadmap that refers to a future processor of this type based on Zen 4 or a variant of it, then it is very clear that the Lisa Su’s interest in this market is quite limited now, to say the least. And amidst the huge shortage added to the lack of competition from Intel, we end up with the most poorly treated segment in terms of processors.
Finally the Threadripper 5000 Pro will be available
Well yes, after long being a rumor and its availability limited only to computer manufacturers. We will finally be able to configure a workstation using a Threadripper 5000 Pro as the central processor. In total with the three different configurations that you can see in the image below these lines.
If you have a system with a Threadripper 3000 processor you don’t have to change the motherboard to mount the Threadripper 5000 Pro on it, as it was designed for the sWRX8 socket found on motherboards with WRX80 chipset. Threadrippers are generally nothing more than workstation-friendly versions of AMD EPYC, but they do have a twist when it comes to workstation and server processors. We refer to the ability to reach higher speeds through the same Boost mechanism than desktop processors
The higher number of cores also means a higher number of CCDs and with it the use of a larger socket, which brings us, as we mentioned before, to the use of a different socket for the CPU than that of the Ryzen. This does not mean that it is the same specifications for the motherboard, since it inherits the same capabilities as its counterpart for servers. That’s to say, 128 PCIe Gen 4 lanes for expansion cards. As for the RAM, it supports 8 channels of DDR4 memory where we can use both modules UDIMM as RDIMMboth types with ECC support.
