SeekerAMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X
AMD's 24-core Ryzen Threadripper 3960X is not as outright powerful as its 32-core big brother, but it offers plenty of punch for the price, still trouncing Intel's closest competition in the Core i9-10980XE Extreme Edition.
-- As reviewed by PCMag
Product details
- An Astonishing 24 Cores and 48 Processing Threads for Serious Designers and Artists
- Incredible 4. 5 GHz Max Boost Frequency, with a huge 140MB Cache
- Unlocked, with new automatic overclocking feature. Base Clock - 3.8GHz
- Quad-Channel DDR4 and 88 total PCIe 4. 0 lanes
- 280W TDP, Cooler Not Included
PROS
+ Excellent price-to-performance ratio.
+ Faster than Intel's competing processors.
+ Strong gaming results.
+ Support for ECC memory with certain mainboards.
+ Up to 256GB of memory, in quad channel, supported on TRX40 mainboards.
CONS
- Finicky overclocking.
- TRX40 platform requires new, expensive motherboards.
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By PCMag on November 25, 2019
AMD's 24-core Ryzen Threadripper 3960X is not as outright powerful as its 32-core big brother, but it offers plenty of punch for the price, still trouncing Intel's closest competition in the Core i9-10980XE Extreme Edition.
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