The past few weeks we’ve talked a lot about the Zen+ update for Ryzen, we all know that Threadripper will be undergoing that same amount of TLC. A public slide from AMD now confirms that Ryzen Threadripper 2900X, 2920X and 2950X are sampling.
Earlier on a document already leaked out, sharing the existence of the three mega-core procs. For Threadripper Gen2 you can expect a refresh of the current line-up; an 8-core Threadripper 2900X, a 12-core Threadripper 2920X and of course a 16-core Threadripper 2950X. AMD will apply the same Zen+ tweaks to the processors; including memory latency optimizations and higher clock speeds. This is going to be huge for Threadripper.
The Threadripper 2000 series is based on the new Ryzen 2nd Gen Pinnacle Ridge dies aka Zen+, and hopefully can achieve the same clocks as the Gen 2 Ryzen counterparts with turbos to the 4200 and 4300 MHz ranges. You should be able to see the same memory improvements on latency as well as higher frequency support. Earlier on it was indicated that Threadripper 2000 will hit the market in Q3, meaning likely at the AMD Computex press conference, they will announce that. BTW, before we begin another long discussion, dates are always a thing with AMD slides, simply put they reuse them all the time ergo, this one mentions 2017, via videocardz.
