DECEMBER 2019 PCWorld 7News
TECH NEWS AND TRENDS THAT WILL
AFFECT YOU TODAY AND BEYOND.AMD unveils 32-core Threadripper
3970X, 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X,
and unlocked Athlon
The 32-core Threadripper will cost $1,999, and there’ll be a 24-core Threadripper for
$1,399, too. BY GORDON MAH UNGA
MD officially unwrapped two
new Threadripper 3 CPUs with
24 and 32 cores, respectively,
on November 7. The company
also announced an unlocked Athlon and said
its 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X will finally go on
sale on November 28.The two new Threadripper CPUs are the
biggest news. AMD will sell a 24-core
Threadripper 3960X for $1,399. The chip is
built on a 7nm process, features 140MB of
cache, and will have a base clock of 3.8GHz
and boost of 4.5GHz. The 32-core
Threadripper 3970X, priced at $1,999, arrivesIMAGE: AMD