{"id":278941,"date":"2018-10-08T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T06:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=278941"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:29:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T06:29:33","slug":"amd-reveals-launch-date-for-new-threadripper-2-cpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/278941-amd-reveals-launch-date-for-new-threadripper-2-cpus.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD reveals launch date for new Threadripper 2 CPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has announced that its second-generation Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX and 2920X processors will be available from 29 October 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/13443\/amd-announces-availability-of-12-and-24core-threadripper-2-cpus-coming-late-october\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AnandTech<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX boasts 24 physical cores with 48 threads and is aimed at high-end workstations, while the less powerful Ryzen Threadripper 2920X is more suited for high-end consumer builds, with 12 physical cores and 24 threads.<\/p>\n<p>Both second-generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors are built on AMD&#8217;s Zen+ Core CPU architecture and include 60+4 PCIe Gen 3 lanes with support for quad-channel DDR4 RAM at 2,933MHz.<\/p>\n<p>The Threadripper 2970WX features AMD&#8217;s new Dynamic Local Mode, which boosts performance by up to 49% by optimising the assignment of local memory controllers.<\/p>\n<p>AMD&#8217;s Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX processor is priced at $1,299, while the Ryzen Threadripper 2920X will cost $649.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/278083-intel-share-price-rally-sends-amd-tumbling.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel share price rally sends AMD tumbling<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has announced that its second-generation Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX and 2920X processors will be available from 29 October 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":271061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[54377,54375,577,40218,43214],"class_list":["post-278941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-2920x","tag-2970wx","tag-amd","tag-ryzen","tag-threadripper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278941"}],"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=278941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278953,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278941\/revisions\/278953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}