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I have some huge news for you here and it stems from the changes AMD has made under the hood. To start with, the CPU features similar components to a 2nd Gen Threadripper CPU, but this time, there's a ...

With half as many CPU cores as its flagship cousin, AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 9970X ($2,499) is a lower-priced, lower-capacity processor than the leading Threadripper 9980X that still delivers extreme ...

The latest 32-core and 24-core high-end desktop parts from AMD have now landed. We've known about the specs for a while, so we'll waste little time talking what we already knew on paper, and get the ...

For years, AMD's Threadripper series has been synonymous with brute-force multi-core power. With the new Ryzen Threadripper 9980X, AMD is sharpening that edge even further, bringing 64 cores and 128 ...

AMD looks to again turn the screws on Intel’s Xeon chips with a new Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000-series of workstation CPUs that it claims will be far more efficient and faster than Intel’s best. Built ...

AMD's latest Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series arrives with a familiar formula: massive core counts, eye-watering specs, and price tags to match. Built on the Zen 5 microarchitecture, these chips pack up ...

AMD claims its top Threadripper Pro chip trounces Intel’s Xeon CPUs. AMD claims its top Threadripper Pro chip trounces Intel’s Xeon CPUs. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been ...

Last week, AMD dropped the Threadripper 9000 series, and it is amazing, starting with its name. In the world of technology, product names often range from the blandly numerical to the abstractly ...