After several generations, professional workstations get monumental new chips.
AMD had a huge announcement to share with everyone at Computex 2025. Well, the company had a few of them, but we’re here to talk about its new CPUs. The CPUs in question belong in the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series, which is the winner of one of our Computex 2025 awards. AMD announced the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 and Threadripper 9000 Pro chips as part of this series, and they’re immensely powerful. The former goes up to 64 cores, while the latter scales all the way up to 96 cores.
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 chips are aimed at professional workstations
Needless to say, these chips are focused on professional workstations, well, mainly the ‘Pro’ series. High-end desktops, aka HEDT, are being targeted by these chips. Considering that AMD did not release processors that target HEDT in several generations, these are certainly welcomed additions, and one of our favorite announcements from this year’s Computex. The Ryzen Threadripper 9000 processors come in 24-core, 32-core, and 64-core options. The Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Pro range scales from 12 cores all the way up to 96 cores. The most interesting thing about these chips is the Zen 5 architecture, actually, even though the core numbers do seem appealing.
The Zen 5 architecture supports AVX-512 instructions with a full 512-bit data path. That’s the main news here. These chips also have some other advantages. They support PCIe 5.0 with support up to 128 PCIe lanes. They also support up to eight channels of DDR5-6400 memory with ECC support. On the flagship Threadripper 9980X chip, you’re getting up to 256GB of L3 cache, while on the Pro range, the cache scales up to 384MB on the Threadripper Pro 9950WH, which is the kind of that series.
AMD just raised the bar
So, as you can see, there’s a lot to like when it comes to these chips. We did have to get technical, as these are, after all, workhorse chips that are meant to be used in workstations, no matter how you spin it. It’s nice to see that AMD decided to deliver new HEDT chips after several generations, as these will hopefully be a success for AMD. The competition better have something up their sleeves, as AMD just raised the bar.
What we currently do not know, however, is how much they’ll cost. That’s something that AMD did not mention. However, we do know that they’ll be expensive, which is to be expected for something like this. The Threadripper Pro range of chips is expected to be included in workstations from Lenovo and HPE, amongst others. We should start seeingthe first devices in July.
