MD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO Processors: Introducing the Third Wave of Workstation Computing

Exploiting a trio of novel technologies, AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO processors disrupt the status quo and reset professionals’ expectations of workstation-caliber computing, With the introduction of the Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO processors, AMD is ushering in a third wave of high performance workstation computing, marrying the best of superscalar and multi-core CPU design with AMD infinity architecture. The end result delivers on a long sought-after goal of high-demand computing professionals: access to dramatic performance scaling with additional computing cores without sacrificing single-thread performance for those workloads that still demand it. To get there, AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO processors achieved several technical milestones, becoming the first professional workstation-caliber CPU built on a 7 nm process technology, implementing a significantly enhanced “Zen 2” microarchitecture, and leveraging AMD infinity architecture and chiplet design methodology.

Each represents a compelling accomplishment on its own, but the power of these technologies harnessed together yields far more than their individual parts. With that combination, the four members of the Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 3900WX processor family can make the ultimate argument for a workstation-caliber CPU: many cores capable of running at high sustained base frequencies. That inflection point in turn opens up the opportunity to not only speed today’s typical professional workflows in CAD, DME, oil/gas, it can enable the jump to a range of high-demand, heavily-threaded emerging uses, like 8K video production, next-generation intelligent manufacturing (i.e. Industry 4.0), machine learning, and data science.