New AMD Threadripper CPU prices revealed

The 1920X will have a base clock frequency of 3.5GHz and turbo up to 4.0GHz. The 1950X will have a 3.4GHz base clock and turbo up to 4.0GHz.

The Threadripper processors are comprised of two Zeppelin dies and based on AMD’s Zen architecture, boasting 16 physical cores with 32 threads.
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Little misleading...the 1920X is a 12 core / 24 thread part.
 
Neoprod said:
I'm a hermaphrodite but the lady bits are disabled :whistle:
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Common practice in the wafer production process. Samples are tested and features are removed by blowing internal fuses when something is not working 100%.
 
But does it have proper memory support this time?
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Well, technically they're both 16 core parts but 4 of those cores are disabled on the 1920x :D
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It would appear that ThreadRipper is in fact a rebadged EPYC chip with 2 dies (4 CCXes) disabled. der8auer delidded the 1950X which revealed the following:

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Full album here.

Yields must be bloody excellent if AMD can simply use EPYC to create ThreadRipper! Or they've chosen to go this route so that if they wanted to they could release a version of TR with fewer or even no CCXes disabled. :wtf:

Lastly, I wonder if mobo makers will be able to release a BIOS which can unlock the disabled dies?
 
^ Apparently that is still an engineering sample so retail products might differ, but still if they have Epyc processors with 2 completely bad dies it would make sense to use them as TR chips.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
^ Apparently that is still an engineering sample so retail products might differ, but still if they have Epyc processors with 2 completely bad dies it would make sense to use them as TR chips.
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This is final design. While I'm sure a lot of people were expecting TR to only be two Zeppelin dies it wouldn't be possible to do that now given the size of the IHS. The two dead / disabled dies actually serve as spacers for the IHS which seems like a waste but it probably worked out cheaper to re-purpose EPYC than create an entirely new package with only two Zeppelin dies.
 
Xiphan said:
Yields must be bloody excellent if AMD can simply use EPYC to create ThreadRipper! Or they've chosen to go this route so that if they wanted to they could release a version of TR with fewer or even no CCXes disabled. :wtf:

Lastly, I wonder if mobo makers will be able to release a BIOS which can unlock the disabled dies? ��
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No surprise really as even Ryzen is actually 2 physical CPUs, why it needs to be specifically coded for in games. And yes, yields are excellent. That's why it took so long for Ryzen 5 & 3 to make its way.
 
Neoprod said:
Just waiting for Apple to dual socket them in a Mac Pro, then I'm in :whistle:
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They just might! Mac Pros already have Xeon server chips, so not a stretch that one day they may use Epyc processors (seeing as I think Apple prefers working with AMD).
 
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