In early May, some confusion among connoisseurs of AMD products was caused by the disappearance from the presentation for investors of the mention of third-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors, which could follow the desktop relatives of the Ryzen 3000 family (Matisse) to switch to 7nm technology, Zen 2 architecture with increased cache and increased specific performance in terms of one cycle, as well as offer support for PCI Express 4.0. In fact, Gigabyte motherboards based on the AMD X599 chipset, which was supposed to accompany the new Ryzen Threadripper processors, had already appeared in the EEC customs database from Kazakhstan, and there were not many reasons to consider these products fictional.
Anyway, next generation Ryzen Threadripper processors disappeared from the May investor presentation, and numerous bloggers began to actively discuss the reasons for this change. At the time, it was known that AMD would very likely introduce a 7nm 9-core Ryzen processor, and the Ryzen 3900 2019X model will indeed debut on July XNUMXth, as we can know from today's AMD launch event at Computex XNUMX.
Tellingly, the company compared the Ryzen 9 3900X processor with the twelve-core competitor Core i9-9920X, which nominally belongs to a different class of products, but AMD emphasized the superiority of its new product in terms of performance at lower power consumption and half the cost. Involuntarily, it seemed that Ryzen 9 invaded the Ryzen Threadripper niche.
Lisa Su's speech at Computex 2019 was followed by a press conference where the head of AMD answered relevant questions that were not raised in the morning's speech. According to the resource , regarding the rumors about AMD's refusal to further develop the Ryzen Threadripper family, the head of the company made an important remark. She explained that she had never publicly spoken about such intentions, and such rumors were generated somewhere on the Internet. In fact, AMD intends to introduce new Ryzen Threadripper models in the future, it just needs to decide on their positioning relative to the Ryzen 3000 now. As Lisa Su added, when mainstream processor models increase the number of cores, Ryzen Threadripper needs to follow suit, and this is what the company is now in operation.
The issue of the appearance of the 16-core version of the Ryzen 3000 was also raised. The head of the company evasively explained that he listens to the wishes of the public and offers her an exceptional set of products. I must say that after the introduction of the “3900X” index in the Ryzen 9 series to denote a processor with twelve cores, AMD does not have many options for releasing a processor with sixteen cores in the same family. A potential flagship will be forced to either move to the next 4xxx series, or be content with a small change in the numerical index of a model like "3990X" or "3970X". In addition, such a processor would take away part of the audience from the more expensive Ryzen Threadripper, and the release of a model with 16 cores is more limited by marketing considerations than technical barriers.
Source: 3dnews.ru