AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX CPUs Confirmed: Launch Imminent

An AMD contractor has submitted compatibility testing results for the company's upcoming Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-series platform to SATA-IO, an organization that oversees and supports the SATA specification. While these aren't likely to rank among the best CPUs for gaming, the submission indicates that the launch of the platform is imminent.

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-series CPUs are the company's next-generation processors for high-end workstations. The submission to SATA-IO (discovered by @Komachi_Ensaka) doesn't reveal much information about the upcoming platform, except some obvious things like SATA 6 Gbps support. But the very submission of the document indicates that AMD is on track to release its new processors for high-end workstations in the near future.

What's interesting is that AMD submitted test results of its next-generation Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPUs (which have already been listed on another occasion), but did not submit test results for its future regular Ryzen Threadripper processors. But there is an explanation for this.

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)
Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • Jim90
    Glad AMD has answered that burning question for all existing TRX40 system owners.
    Reply
  • domih
    Threadripper user here.

    Who cares if the Threadripper CPU need new motherboards, is not intended to the overclocking crowd, to the gaming crowd, etc?

    If one buys/builds a Threadripper system it's probably because one needs the cores/threads, the memory, the PCIe slots and plans to use it for heavy tasks like contents creation, data sciences, industrial design, development with multiple databases, multiple VMs, etc and uses multiple accelerators, high bandwidth network, etc cards.

    Such a system will probably end up being used for 10 years. If the initial costs is $12,000, it means $100 per month over ten years. OK, amortization does not work like that, it's just to give an idea on how to see the cost spread over a long period. In others words, it's peanuts compared to the overall operating expenses.

    AMD redefined the workstation and high performance desktop with Threadripper and INTEL still does not have a response to it.

    The rest in press articles or comments about pros and cons is just blah blah blah.
    Reply