We already have the first CPU-Z capture of the future AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990X second generation processor with 32 cores and 64 processing threads. This is the company’s new top-of-the-range silicon, which promises to make Intel’s existence bitter.
Details on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990X
This 12nm Pinnacle Ridge processor seems to have been named Threadripper 2990X, opening the door for AMD to maintain the 2920X nomenclature for 12 cores and 1950X for 16 cores, then a 2960X for 20 cores, a 2970X for 24 cores, a 2980X for 28 cores, and a 2990X for 32 cores. What is not known is whether AMD will also offer a 10-core model, which would bridge the gap between the Ryzen range for AM4 and these Threadrippers.
The CPU-Z screenshot shows the Threadripper 2990X running at a base frequency of 3.4 GHz with a turbo speed of up to 4.0 GHz thanks to the use of XFR technology, all this with a TDP of 250 W, a figure that seems a miracle for a 32-core processor, the secret would be in the use of the best Pinnacle Ridge dies selected by hand, something that was already done with the Summit Ridge of the first generation Ryzen.
This impressive processor was overclocked to 4.2 GHz in all cores, causing some thermal choking, as the performance was lower than when the chip was running at 4 GHz in all cores. The maximum overclocking without thermal overclocking was 4.12 GHz, a speed with which the chip scored 6,399 points at Cinebench.
This Threadripper 2990X is a great example of the great virtue of Zen architecture when creating processors with many cores.