BRING OUT THE PCIE DEVICES

All of this is why Threadripper feels like such a gift. All three Threadripper CPUs announced so far – the 1900X, 1920X, and 1950X – o er 64 PCIe 3.0 lanes from the CPU. This opens the door to a massively scalable platform and up to seven PCIe devices, six of which can even be GPUs.

This is music to the ears of data scientists or anyone who wants to set up a render farm, or even the hardcore gamer looking at a 4-way GPU setup.

Best of all, the 8-core/16-thread Threadripper 1900X costs just US$549, but you won’t have to give up on any of these expansion options.

Threadripper also doesn’t have any dark channels or ports, which is what happens when certain connectors on Intel boards are disabled because others are populated. The generous provision of PCIe lanes from the CPU ensures that you can go to town with congurations comprising up to three NVMe SSDs and four GPUs running at x16/ x16/x8/x8.

In addition, you get support for quadchannel DDR4-2667 across the board, so AMD is relying almost exclusively on clock speeds and core counts to di erentiate between its processors. There’s no forgetting AMD’s SenseMI technology either, and all Threadripper processors benet from things like the 4-core Extended Frequency Range (XFR) boost to 4.2GHz and granular 25MHz Precision Boost adjustments in speeds.