Announced back in November of 2019, AMD has finally made an official announcement at CES 2020 on the availability of the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X HEDT (high-end desktop) CPU.
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X will be arriving pretty soon as it will be available from the 7th of February 2020. AMD has referred to the 3990X as the world’s first 64-core desktop processor that carries 128-threads. That’s a lot of serious firepower in a chip.
It has a base clock of 2.9GHz with a max boost clock of 4.3GHz. The 280W Threadripper 3990X also has a total cache of 288MB along with quad-channel DDR4-3200 RAM and PCIe 4.0 support. That gives it a 51% boost in performance for 3D Ray Tracing on Maxon Cinema4D Renderer. It could also achieve 25,399 points on Cinebence R20.06.
Pricing and Availability
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X will be sold for USB $3,990. Available from 7th February 2020 onwards, AMD hasn’t mentioned whether it will be available in Malaysia yet. Stay tuned to The AXO for when we get more info on the Threadripper 3990X availability in Malaysia.