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Threadripper-Feature

AMD's Threadripper family has been making mincemeat of Intel'due south HEDT (High End DeskTop) product segment since it debuted in 2022, simply with the contempo launch of its 2nd-generation Threadripper CPUs, the smaller CPU visitor is twisting the knife. All of its get-go-generation Threadripper parts but got a price cutting, but the 12-cadre part is a simply out-of-this-globe proficient offering. AMD has cut its SEP (Suggested Etail Cost) on both the 1950X and 1920X, only it's trimmed the 1920X all the way down to simply $400. The CPU debuted only over a year ago at $800. Now, here's the suggested price stack:

To put that in some additional perspective, we've rounded out AMD'due south list with the relevant products from Intel's Core-X family.

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The $800 price on the Threadripper 1950X is a decent reduction, at $100 off, just $400 for a 12-core CPU from AMD when the equivalent from Intel is a half dozen-cadre / 12-thread flake? That'south non even a contest. Intel'southward Skylake-10 CPUs are excellent processors, with a higher level of single-threaded functioning than their Ryzen counterparts, but the gap between the ii is, all-time case, ten-15 percent. In cases where Intel has outperformed AMD at a lower core count (like the Ryzen 7 1800X versus the Core i7-8700K), it was thanks to a combination of higher clock speeds and higher IPC, and it merely happened in scenarios where the gap betwixt cadre counts was relatively pocket-size. The Cadre i7-8700K was a half-dozen-core chip that proved faster than the Ryzen 7 1800X (but non its successor, the Ryzen seven 2700X). Similarly, the Cadre i9-7980XE eked out a win over the Threadripper 1950X by virtue of its higher core counts and overall efficiency. But these shifts back and along are all happening with relatively small core-count gaps.

That's what makes the Threadripper 1920X such a deal. The 1950X has 1.6x more cores than the Core i9-7900X, in addition to being $200 cheaper. The 1920X at present has twice the cores of its closest-priced Intel analogue, and while AMD's Threadripper isn't quite as efficient clock-for-clock, with the ii chips pulling down the aforementioned base and boost figures, that's but not plenty of an affect to thing.

So far, the prices we've seen online have been a bit higher than the new $400 list price, and it's not clear how long the parts will be in stock — AMD could have cut the flake'south price every bit role of discontinuing information technology. Only regardless, the 1920X as officially priced is now a very skilful deal indeed.

It'southward unfortunate that the battlefield between AMD and Intel is strongest only in this relatively rareified infinite where few people statistically buy processors — but until Intel tweaks its Cadre X pricing, AMD has the stronger hand hither. It's playing that paw for all information technology's worth.

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