Along with announcing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Radeon RX 9060 XT specifications, on the CPU side AMD used their Computex 2025 keynote for introducing the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series that will be launching in July.
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 “Shimada Peak” series will be available in July as the Zen 5 upgrade for Threadripper. The Threadripper 9000 series will be going up to 96 cores / 192 threads but now with Zen 5 cores and still retaining Socket TR5 motherboard compatibility.
With Zen 5 comes the full 512-bit data path AVX-512 for even greater performance in AI/HPC workloads and more as shown already with the Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs and EPYC 9005 and EPYC 4005 series server processors. The Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series will top out at a 5.4GHz clock frequency and support eight channel DDR5-6400 ECC memory.
With the Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-Series, the top-end part is the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9995WX with 96 cores / 192 threads, 5.4GHz max boost, and 384MB L3 cache.
With the Threadripper 9000 series the top-end part is the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X at 64 cores / 128 threads, 5.4GHz maximum boost clock, 3.2GHz base clock, and 256MB L3 cache. There is also the 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 9970X and 24-core Ryzen Threadripper 9960X.
AMD hadn’t shared any pricing information at this time on the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-Series processors. Availability is in July so we should know more by then as well as hopefully being able to deliver Linux performance benchmarks for these next-gen Threadripper Zen 5 CPUs. That’s all for today but given what we’ve seen out of the AMD EPYC 9005 processors on Linux, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series should be a real treat for demanding Linux compute use.
