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    AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

    Mar 23, 2020 4 minutes
    Chris Szewczyk

    AMD has been going from strength to strength with successive iterations of its Zen architecture, most recently culminating in the ultra-high end Threadripper 3-series. The entry level 24-core 3960X we reviewed last month decimated Intel’s entire HEDT lineup, and by some margin. The 3970X 32 model is equally impressive. But, the best was yet to come. Hidden away inside a press deck was a tease of the 3990X, a 64-core flagship behemoth that teased unprecedented levels of parallel computational power. It introduces a completely new paradigm to the consumer marketplace. So powerful is the 3990X, it may be too much processor for consumer level software to handle.

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