AMD “Zen 4” Basado en Ryzen Threadripper “pico tormentoso” Superficies con configuración de 96 núcleos/192 hilos

AMD will build “Zen 4” based Ryzen Threadripper processors in an attempt to meet competition from Intel, which is rumored to launch HEDT processors of its own based on “Sapphire Rapids.” While Intel’s chip tops out at 60-core/120-thread and has a constellation of task-specific hardware-accelerators, AMD will arm its processors with raw CPU core-count, going as high up as 96-core/192-thread. The company has assigned the codename “pico tormentoso” for these chips.

The Ryzen Threadripper 7000-series “pico tormentoso” processor engineering samples surfaced on the Einstein@Home user database. As many as three OPNs have surfaced, “Ejemplo de ingeniería de AMD: 100-000000884-21_N” y “Ejemplo de ingeniería de AMD: 100-000000884-20_Y,” which are 96-core/192-thread; and the “Ejemplo de ingeniería de AMD: 100-000000454-20_Y,” which is 64-core/128-thread. “pico tormentoso” is likely just a variation of EPYC “Génova,” geared for higher frequencies.

How AMD sells these chips is a whole different story. The company skipped the client-HEDT market entirely for its “Zen 3” based Ryzen Threadripper 5000 serie, and only targeted the workstation-HEDT market under the “WX” brand extension. The expectation now is that it could do something similar, by making Ryzen Threadripper 7000WX series SKUs that are initially sold exclusively through pre-built workstation manufacturers such as Lenovo, with a retail-channel launch expected some 6 months afterward.

Even as a workstation-only processor, “pico tormentoso” has some jaw-dropping I/O specs that could include 12-channel DDR5 memory (24 x subcanales de 40 bits); y hasta 160 PCI-Express Gen 5.0 carriles, which can connect up to 10 graphics cards at full x16 bandwidth; or a heap of PCIe Gen 5 x4 NVMe SSDs and other high-bandwidth devices. AMD is expected to develop an exclusive chipset and CPU socket for these processors, which could be a variation of SP5.