CPU
AMD Ryzen 7950X
Dave James pens these words and takes complete blame for saying: Zen 4 and the art of CPU maintenance.
A ThreadRipper in all but name, there’s 32 of the little blighters in there somewhere.
SPECS
Socket: AM5 Process: 5nm TSMC Cores: 16 Threads: 32 Clock: 4.5GHz (5.7GHz boost) Cache: 1MB L1, 16MB L2, 64MB L3 Unlocked: Yes GPU: AMD Radeon 2-core RDNA 2, 400MHz Mem max: 128GB DDR5- 5200, ECC support, 2-channel PCIe: v5 24-lanes TDP: 170W.
T
he AMD Ryzen 9 7950X is the vanguard for a whole new generation of CPUs from AMD. At its most basic level, this is a straight 16-core, 32-thread CPU, packing a pair of eight-core compute chiplets together with an I/O die to get all the data into and out of the processor package.