Ryzen Threadripper (Pro) 9000: AMD Brings Zen 5 to Workstations and as a HEDT CPU 13 comments
Threadripper is back! At Calpex 2025, AMD is unveiling the Zen 5-based solution for the HEDT and Workstation (Pro) segments. This split once again ensures that there are only 64 cores on the desktop, while for the workstation there are again 96 cores. In terms of performance, both cores are increasing.
Threadripper 9000 without chiplet
For those interested in technology, the view of the processors is very interesting, especially without pre-heat tests. Here, AMD is very openly showing what the 64-core processor looks like under the hood. For the hedge segment, a 96 core with its twelve chips is not only partially cast, but the chips are not even installed. The chips, each one removed from the I/O die, have AMD, because one of these CCDs has eight cores, 32 cores are missing, and the 64 core is realized via the remaining eight chips.
The weight savings of the processor with the large and rather thick heat sink was also interesting from a practical perspective. The CPU itself is surprisingly light without it; it’s ultimately a thin substrate on which the chips are packaged—all of which doesn’t weigh much. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000X
The new models now rely on Zen 5 as the underlying architecture. This isn’t surprising, but the point from now on, as RDIMM is directly supported by eight channels. All other innovations also go hand in hand with the division of the model range.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper (Pro) 9000
The workstation segment gets six models from 96 cores at the top end to 12 cores. For the high-end desktop (HEDT) segment, there are three processors, with 64, 32, and 24 cores. The special feature of the latter is again that it can display the same L3 cache as the 32-core, so it relies on the same number of CCDs and is disabled in each of these cores. As before, the hedge variants will offer four storage channels, but here too DDR5-6400 as RDIMM with ECC support.
AMD also has some initial benchmarks. The opponent is a Xeon which, due to a smaller number of seeds, cannot put the thread editor back in the water. As usual, manufacturer benchmarks should be treated with caution, but the performance increase sometimes shows a different league. Compared to its predecessor, you can expect 13 to 23 percent higher performance, depending entirely on the application area. Here, the newcomer can sometimes quickly benefit from AVX-512 via a full 512-bit data path and also from significantly faster memory.
The solutions, along with the Radeon AI Pro R9700 graphics card, should be available in July. The package is coordinated, as a thread ripper with its 128 PCIe lanes can then easily register and address four of the new graphics cards without any problems.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper (Pro) 9000
Techastuce received the information for this article from AMD at Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan under NDA. There was no manufacturer influence or obligation to report. The only requirement was to publish as soon as possible.
Topics: AMD Computex 2025 Ryzen Threadripper Zen processors
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