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Casual PC gamers and Excel jockeys, turn back now. AMD designs its Threadripper processors to generate truly awesome levels of multi-threaded computational power, which is immediately evident with its ...

For years, AMD's Threadripper series has been synonymous with brute-force multi-core power. With the new Ryzen Threadripper 9980X, AMD is sharpening that edge even further, bringing 64 cores and 128 ...

AMD's latest Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series arrives with a familiar formula: massive core counts, eye-watering specs, and price tags to match. Built on the Zen 5 microarchitecture, these chips pack up ...

With AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 stealing the spotlight, is a new Threadripper chip waiting in the wings? The answer to that is a definite maybe, but possibly not in the way you’re expecting. First, what we ...

Last week, AMD dropped the Threadripper 9000 series, and it is amazing, starting with its name. In the world of technology, product names often range from the blandly numerical to the abstractly ...

If you’re interested in Linux performance, you may want to take a look at our experiences with the 3990X here. In our look at AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 3990X in Linux, we saw many occasions where the ...