AMD Threadripper - Not Only About Performance

With Intel and AMD pursuing a top spot for sales this summer we hope the final consumer will get the most benefits out of this “war”, in spite of the fact that we now know the amount of money that X299 and X399 motherboards will cost.

This seems to be an engineering adventure for more cores and not more GHz, more cores will imply better and faster software execution. While AMD says that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X and 1950X will be estimated at $799 and $999, Intel seems to keep its prices high on a market where AMD lately has been showing good signs of better consumer sales.

Despite current criticism from Intel towards its direct opponent, Intel Core i9 chip is basically an over variant of the current Ryzen, AMD's building unit of 8 cores with 16 threads, however with just 28 PCIe lanes. That gives AMD a favorable position on the market as to core I/O transmission capacity.

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