Advanced Micro Devices announced its Ryzen Threadripper processor today, as well as its new Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics processing units (GPUs). And the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said that these chips are going to make gamers very happy.
In a demo at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, AMD executive Jim Anderson showed off the new flagship central processing unit (CPU), the Ryzen Threadripper. The processor is based on AMD’s Zen architecture, which can process 52 percent more instructions per clock cycle compared to AMD’s older CPUs.
“Ryzen Threadripper is targeted at the highest performance PC systems,” Anderson said.
The Threadripper is coming this summer, and it has 16 cores capable of running 32 threads. It supports 64 lanes of PCIe 3.0 devices, such as graphics cards. It has four channels of DDR4 memory. It’s about twice as fast as the 8-core Ryzen 7 desktop processor that…
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