{"id":222421,"date":"2017-07-31T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=222421"},"modified":"2017-07-31T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:36:18","slug":"amds-massively-powerful-threadripper-processors-south-african-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/222421-amds-massively-powerful-threadripper-processors-south-african-pricing.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD&#8217;s massively-powerful Threadripper processors &#8211; South African pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African retailers have listed pricing for AMD&#8217;s new Ryzen Threadripper processors.<\/p>\n<p>Local pricing is available for the Threadripper 1920X and Threadripper 1950X, which are set to arrive in the country from tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The processors are high-end desktop chips and support the manufacturer&#8217;s new X399 chipset with TR4 socket.<\/p>\n<p>Like other Ryzen processors, Threadipper chips are based on AMD&#8217;s 14nm Zen microarchitecture &#8211; although they are much larger and not compatible with the AM4 socket.<\/p>\n<p>Threadripper processors compete against Intel&#8217;s new Core X lineup of desktop chips, as both boast large core counts and high price tags.<\/p>\n<p>Rebel Tech and Wootware have listed pricing for the new desktop chips, shown below.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Rebel Tech<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ryzen Threadripper 1920X &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeltech.co.za\/15464-amd-ryzen-threadripper-1920x-the-amd-ryzen-threadripper-processor-is-designed-to-provide-indisputable-multi-processing-supremacy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>R13,599<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ryzen Threadripper 1950X &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeltech.co.za\/15463-amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-the-amd-ryzen-threadripper-processor-is-designed-to-provide-indisputable-multi-processing-supremacy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>R16,999<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Wootware<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ryzen Threadripper 1920X &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wootware.co.za\/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1920x-12-core-3-5ghz-4-0ghz-turbo-socket-str4-desktop-cpu-cooler-not-included.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>R13,769<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ryzen Threadripper 1950X &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wootware.co.za\/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-16-core-3-4ghz-4-0ghz-turbo-socket-str4-desktop-cpu-cooler-not-included.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>R17,295<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #003366; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Specifications<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Threadripper 1920X<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Threadripper 1950X<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Cores<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"40%\"><strong>Threads<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"30%\">24<\/td>\n<td width=\"30%\">32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Base Clock<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>3.5GHz<\/td>\n<td>3.4GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Boost Clock<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4.0GHz<\/td>\n<td>4.0GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>L3 Cache<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>32MB<\/td>\n<td>32MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Socket<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>TR4<\/td>\n<td>TR4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>TDP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>180W<\/td>\n<td>180W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/222049-amd-ryzen-3-processors-launched-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD Ryzen 3 processors launched in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African retailers have listed pricing for AMD&#8217;s new Ryzen Threadripper processors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":222423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[577,45003,75],"class_list":["post-222421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-ryzen-threadripper","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222433,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222421\/revisions\/222433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}