AMD Reveals Threadripper Pricing, Upcoming Ryzen 3 Models

In advance of its launch next month, AMD has finally coughed up some pricing information for its hugely anticipated Ryzen Threadripper series – or, what I like to call “Ryzen on Steroids” (I don’t think AMD is going to adopt that one, though.)

While rumors have shown full Threadripper lineups, the launch next month is going to consist of just two models. Thankfully, one of those is the biggest one on offer, the 16-core, 32-thread 1950X. This chip will go head-to-head with Intel’s just-released i9-7900X, which is priced at the same $999. AMD’s benefit, though, is that its chip offers 12 threads more than Intel’s, which based on what we’ve seen from Ryzen 7, could bode very well in benchmarks (and real-life, of course).

Often, high-core chips carry a caveat of crippled clock speeds, but Threadripper suffers nothing of the sort. The 16-core 1950X is clocked at 3.4GHz, and peaks at 4.0GHz. The 1920X, which costs $799, cuts the cores to 12 (and threads to 24), but gains 100MHz on the 1950X’s stock clock.

Given what we see on paper, Threadripper is downright exciting. We’ve been waiting for ages to get our hands on chips that boast more than 8 or 10 cores, and here we’re soon to see a consumer chip delivering a ridiculous 32 threads. The 1950X could easily become a workstation champion – it’d offer an obscene amount of performance for its price tag.

Speaking of price tag, AMD apparently had no intention on price gouging for these top-end parts, as the 1950X is specs-wise, double the Ryzen 7 1800X. That chip costs $499, whereas the 1950X is $999. History has shown us that these exotic chips like the 1950X could have easily sold for greater than $999, but it doesn’t, and for that, I hope they fly off the shelves.

In less-exciting-but-still-exciting news, AMD has also announced that its Ryzen 3 series are en route, with two SKUs set to hit etail on the 27th of this month. Those SKUs include the quad-core (no SMP) 1300X, clocked at 3.5GHz, and also the 1200 quad-core, non-X, clocked at 3.1GHz. Pricing for these parts is still being kept under wraps.