AMD’s Threadripper Demoed with Radeon RX Vega at Computex

Posted by at 11:04 am on May 31, 2017

AMD gave demonstrations of 16-core Threadripper CPUs, along with four Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics cards at its Computex press conference in Taipei

“We celebrate 30 years of AMD in Taiwan at Computex this year with great momentum around our new high-performance computing and graphics products,” said AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “At Computex we highlighted the next wave of AMD products that will come to market, including our upcoming EPYC family of processors for datacenters, high-end Radeon ‘Vega’-based graphics cards, and new AMD Ryzen Threadripper and Ryzen mobile processors. We were thrilled to be joined by customers and partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo to showcase their latest AMD Ryzen-powered PCs.”

Threadripper, AMD’s previously announced many-core CPU for the high-end PC desktop and workstation market was first announced at Financial Analyst Day a few weeks back and at the show we now got out first look at the CPU.

It is a physically large processor with 16 cores and 32 threads with support for quad-channel DDR4 memory and a mind blogging 64 PCI Express lanes. The launch chipset for ThreadRipper will be the X399 chipset, which we have very little info on at this time. The PCI lanes will broken up into 60+4: 60 lanes directly from the CPU for feeding PCIe and M.2 slots, and then another 4 lanes going to the chipset (with an undisclosed number of lanes then coming off of it) to drive basic I/O, USB, and other features. Intel is maxing at 44 PCI lanes on its new Core i9 with a starting price of at $999.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper was demoed with dual Radeon RX Vega ( gaming versions) graphics cards running at 4K/Ultra settings on the new Prey PC title. No frame rates were mentioned.

“Our message is that for the true enthusiast class performance capability, this combination will be an incredible combination available with Threadripper and Vega,” Dr. Su added.

Radeon RX Vega will launch at Siggraph 2017 at the end of July.

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