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AMD’s 64-Core Beast

the arrival of the “world’s highest performance desktop and ultra-thin laptop processors.” Big talk. First to the desktop: The new Threadripper 3990X is a beast, with 64 cores and 128 threads. It has a base clock of 2.9GHz, with a maximum boost rate of 3.4GHz. It shares the same basic design as the Epyc 7702P server chip, but with fewer memory channels and bumped speeds. It will drop into existing sTRX40

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