AMD launches new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series CPU perf: 2x faster than Intel Xeon CPUs

AMD has officially launched its new Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 series "Shimada Peak" CPUs, offering up to 96 cores and 192 threads of Zen 5 processing power for HEDT systems.

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AMD says its new Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 series CPUs offer an IPC performance uplift over the Zen 4-based Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series CPUs of up to 26%. The new Threadripper PRO 9000 series processors feature the Zen 5 architecture and its full 512-bit FPU data-path, boasting significant performance uplifts in applications that use the AVX-512 instruction set.

AMD has been working hard at tweaking the IOD (I/O die) to support higher memory speeds of DDR5-6400 natively, AMD EXPO profiles, and CKD.

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With all of these changes and slight tweaks to clock speeds for particular SKUs in the new Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 series CPUs, AMD promises a 16% boost in performance over the previous-gen Threadripper 7000 series chips, and up to 25% in SPEC Workstation AI and ML benchmarks (compared to Zen 4 chips with identical clocks and core/thread counts).

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The new Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 series CPUs have been designed for the TR5 socket, and are drop-in compatible with all TR5 motherboards if they're using the latest UEFI firmware update.

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AMD is mandating USB BIOS Flashback features for all of its workstation and server platforms, with the new Threadripper PRO 9000 series processors featuring an 8-channel DDR5 memory interface (16 sub-channels), with ECC DDR5-6400 native speeds, support for AMD EXPO tested at over 7000MT/s speeds, and memory interleaving for 2-, 4-, 6-, or 8-channel.

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The memory interface also supports RDIMMs, although the platform is capped at 1 DIMM per channel, and a maximum memory size of 2 TB.

AMD also introduced a smaller family of new Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper 9000X HEDT chips, aimed at HEDTs and entry-level workstations, with the key differences between the PRO 9000 WX series and the non-PRO chips being the dropping of AMD PRO features, and truncated I/O features that drop down to 4-channel (8 sub-channel) DDR5 memory, reduced 48-lane PCIe 5.0 root complex, and just three SKUs that span 24C/48T through to 64C/128T.

The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-series CPUs start with 12C/24T, ranging up to 96C/128T. The new CPUs have up to 5.4GHz maximum boost clocks, no matter which SKU you choose. On offer with the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-series CPUs, we've got the 9945WX with 12C/24T, 9955WX with 16C/32T, 9965WX with 24C/48T, 9975WX with 32C/64T, 9985WX with 64C/128T, and finally the 9995WX with 96C/192T.

On the L3 cache side of things, we've got 64MB, 64MB, 128MB, 128MB, 256MB, and a whopping 384MB on the 9945WX, 9955WX, 9965WX, 9975WX, 9985WX, and 9995WX chips, respectively.