Late last year, AMD was spotted shipping two variants of its upcoming Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors: the 16-core and 96-core model, presumably covering either ends of the lineup. For those unfamiliar, the Ryzen Threadripper lineup is designed for HEDT (high-end desktop) PCs, offering expanded I/O capabilities for multi-GPU or storage-heavy setups.
More Ryzen Threadrippers Spotted
According to the NBD shipping database (spotted by @Olrak29_ on X/Twitter), the most recently spotted chips in the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 lineup (codenamed Shimada Peak) is the 32-core and 64-core variants, on top of the 16-core and 96-core variants spotted previously. That makes it four known models for the upcoming lineup – for reference, Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series only has three models: 24-, 32-, and 64-core variants; its PRO counterpart meanwhile gets 12-, 16-, and 96-core versions as well.
It’s likely that all models in the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 lineup will feature 350W of TDP, with similar specifications as the predecessors – as a result, these chips should be a drop-in upgrade for existing TRX50 motherboards. As observed with desktop counterparts, the I/O die is expected to remain, so PCIe lanes and various I/O specs should be exactly the same as well.
In any case, AMD is likely to announce the new lineup sometime this year, as the previous generation is more than a year old and is almost due for upgrades. Don’t expect these chips to come cheap, especially given that there is very little competition coming from Intel for this particular segment.
Pokdepinion: Is anyone stopping AMD anytime soon? Perhaps not.
