Unfortunately, it will probably be nothing with the HEDT variant of the Threadripper 5xxx, but exactly there, AMD is not subject to any constraints. In the workstation area, however, they are now becoming much more concrete (foil inside). The Pro model for workstations is not only considered to be set, but there are already a total of five variants with 12 to 64 cores. In the end, Epyc processors are used directly here, just under a different name. Under the generic term “AMD Cloudripper-CGL”, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX 64-cores can be found as the spearhead of the new CPUs.
And when I think back on it… When I visited in 1988 the house in Witebsk (Belarus) where Marc Chagall grew up (at that USSR time it was not yet an official museum, but lovingly looked after and preserved by an old couple) and a collective farm where the chairman even had two originals hanging on the wall, unnoticed and unguarded – I would never have thought that more than 30 years later the name Chagall would catch up with me again in this way. But it happened.

The Threadripper Pro 5xxx is based on Zen3 and of course it behaves the same way. There are no big surprises and the clock rates are exactly where you would expect them to be. A maximum boost of 4550 MHz is common to all five CPUs, only the gradations under load logically differ, depending on the number of available cores. At least this way a single chiplet of the new Threadripper Pro behaves exactly like a Ryzen 7 5800X, so one could also infer identical single-thread performance here in something. Only in the sum of all cores does such a Threadripper become a real beast.
In addition to the individual features that are already known, the rest of the technical data is also interesting, which comes from an internal listing. We see five SKUs and their OPN (Original Part Number), as well as the final data for the Chagall processors in the chart below. The B2 stepping should be final, newer variants are not known (to me) so far. Besides the maximum TDP of 280 watts, the gradation of the power consumption for the different load levels (P0 to P2) as well as in idle is especially interesting.
Since the workstation solutions (in contrast to the older HEDT variants) also rely on all eight memory channels along with many PCIe lanes, the sWRX8 is also set as the socket. For the new CPUs there are also interesting workstation motherboards like the Asus Sage, or various other offers up to boards from Gigabyte. First and foremost, professional users should get their money’s worth here, because such a system is absolute overkill for gaming.

So Chagall is real and soon to be available. It’s a shame there are no HEDT offshoots without “Pro”, but in the end I guess it’s a matter of resources. Intel hasn’t had anything in its portfolio in this area for years, and for most users in the semi-professional sector, the 12 cores of a Ryzen 9 5900X or the 16 cores of a Ryzen 9 5950X are also sufficient. The fact that this overlaps with the two smaller models of the Threadripper Pro is actually only logical, because Octa-Channel is then also available with significantly more lanes in the bundle for the interested user.
AMD has obviously buried the HEDT area for the time being, because it has actually become quite superfluous with this constellation. The overlap in core count and the availability of full-featured workstation motherboards actually speaks for itself. The workstation with the Threadripper Pro is thus the new HEDT “replacement” and those who think they absolutely need something like this can also fully grab it here. Whether there will ever again be slimmed down Epyc CPUs for the normal end user is thus written in the stars. But wanting and really needing are two different things. AMD has also realized this. Fragmentation costs money and resources, unfortunately.
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