The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
by Ian Cutress on August 6, 2018 9:00 AM ESTWhere are the Benchmarks?
As stated, today AMD is only lifting the lid on what the stuff looks like, as well as speeds and details. This weekend however, AMD France accidentally released some information on the Cinebench R15 speed of the 32-core, giving it a score of 5099 :
My CPU-focused review, using our newest benchmark suite, will be posted on August 13th. I am still iterating our gaming test suite for CPUs with new games and drivers, so that review will be a little later. I am also in the middle of a 30,000 mile set of travels (FMS, Hot Chips, IFA, vacation), along with some Cannon Lake tests to run, and whatever else might launch soon, so please be a little patient. August has never been so busy, honestly.
Where to Pre-Order
If you really want to go ahead and order before looking at the reviews, then we will add some links in here as we get them. Note that retailers will only be taking pre-orders for the 2990WX today, while the 2950X launches at the end of this month, and then the final two chips in October.
| AMD Threadripper 2 Pre-Orders | ||
| Amazon | Newegg | |
| TR 2990WX | $1799 | $1799 |
| TR 2970WX | $1299 | $1299 |
| TR 2950X | $849 | $849 |
| TR 2920X | $649 | $649 |
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
101 Comments
View All Comments
Sttm - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
The lack of an edit button strikes me again.smilingcrow - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
Don't buy a new sports car either because in 12 months time it will have depreciated and there may be faster models. ;)TR2 pricing goes much higher than TR1 so who knows how much TR3 chips will cost next year and how many cores they will have.
These are for hobbyists when not bought for work and some hobbies are expensive if you aim high.
PeachNCream - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - link
Car analogies don't work very well in this situation as the car industry is relatively slow to change compared to even the maturing and subsequently slowing pace of CPU development.rahvin - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
Until they spin the silicon and you can buy it it's not real, ask anyone that's been expecting Intel 10nm processors. Process tech is likely to stall out very soon if it hasn't already because they have hit the quantum limits on the transistor which have been frozen at 16nm for years.What I'd be more worried about going forward is all the exploits Intel is suffering with Spectre class timing attacks, we're already up to Spectre variant 11 now and Intel has been vulnerable to every variant and AMD has only been partially vulnerable to a few of them. I personally believe this is the strongest reason to migrate away from Intel until they can get some viable silicon that's not vulnerable to every possible timing exploit.
Gothmoth - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
from what i hear from a friend who does hardware vlogging.... the TR2 are great update and the benchmark numbers he saw are very good. the turbo with good cooling is higher than on paper and we will not be dispapointed when the benchmakrs go live around 15/16 of august.cpuaddicted - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
The price of 2950 in the first table is listed as 849$ whereas every where else is mentioned at 899$. Please correct.BB-5F-96-D7-AE-26 - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
Just forget about the AMD TR 1950X...mikk - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
Pathetic paper launch from AMDtsk2k - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
Which canon lake chips are you testing Ian?The 8121U?
CaedenV - Monday, August 6, 2018 - link
250W CPU?!?!?! That is epic!forget about cooling the processor... how do you keep your room cool when you are running an oven 24/7?
Still, seriously cool tech coming from AMD. Happy to see them back in action!