Yesterday AMD officially announced two processors for its new TRX40 platform. At the moment, the company’s flagship CPU is 32-core, 64-thread Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. But if you believe the data received today, he will not be such for long.
One of the largest motherboard manufacturers MSI posted a video of its own TRX40 Creator motherboard on its YouTube channel, and in this video a representative of the company accidentally (or intentionally) showed an unknown 64-core, 128-thread chip.
This is evidenced by the Windows 10 Task Manager window. 8 cells down and 16 cells to the right give us a total of 128 logical threads.
It is quite logical to assume about install a 64-core, 128-thread EPYC server processor instead of Ryzen Threadripper, but according to the official MSI website, the TRX40 Creator board does not support them:
There are already so many rumors around Ryzen Threadripper 3990X that the processor should exist at least as an engineering sample. Why won’t AMD launch it alongside lower CPUs? The answer is simple enough: Inadequate power consumption and heat dissipation. Judge for yourself, if a 32-core chip consumes about 280 watts, it’s not hard to imagine what a relatively high-frequency 64-core processor will be capable of. AMD is waiting for the moment when the company has enough extremely successful 7nm crystals to saturate the market with 64-core CPUs.
The chipmaker needs to fit twice as many cores in the same TDP, otherwise the vast majority of cooling systems will not be able to cope with the top AMD processor.
Based on all of the above, you should not expect the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X announcement in the near future.
