Top-End AMD Threadripper 9000 CPUs May Cost As Much As $13,000

AMD’s next-generation Threadripper CPUs are coming and coming soon, but official announcements are thin on the ground. With a little digging, though, VideoCardz has figured out some of the pricing for these upcoming superchips, and it’s gone up considerably over the last generation. Blame inflation, blame tariffs, blame AMD’s market dominance, but if you want the best of the best from AMD soon, you’re going to have to pay for it.
Threadripper 9000 will be AMD’s next-generation high-end desktop processors using the Zen 5 architecture at the heart of its Ryzen 9000 consumer CPUs, like the excellent 9950X3D. Where those chips top out at 16 cores, though, Threadripper CPUs come with far more. The top HEDT Threadripper 9980X will have 64 cores and a reported price tag of $5,300. The professional alternatives, however, will go up to 96 cores with the 9995WX, with a price as high as $13,000.
These would represent a 6% and 30% increase in price over their last-generation counterparts, respectively, and they’re not alone. Other HEDT Threadripper chips have seen their prices increase by between 4% and 7%, while the Pro chips have gone up between 13% and 30%, depending on which chip you opt for.
Normally, these kinds of prices released ahead of even pre-orders going up would be highly speculative and more of a placeholder. However, VideoCardz had to dig to find these, and it’s not clear if B&H is even aware that the prices are publicly available.
Still, while these prices are notably higher than their older counterparts, they may still be worth paying for professionals wanting the best of the best. Regardless of core counts, the new Threadripper chips are rated to reach as high as 5.4GHz. For a number of chips, that’s several hundred megahertz higher than their predecessors, and it goes hand in hand with architectural improvements and a new process node.
Despite that, TDP has remained a consistent 350W, which is incredibly important for professional chips like these. In many servers and high-end rendering systems, the CPU’s cooling will have been carefully calculated and managed. Increasing power demands would mean many enterprises wouldn’t simply be able to drop in a chip upgrade, but would have needed to retool cooling and potentially rack design. With this, AMD fans can enjoy a much simpler upgrade.
Albeit, at a much higher price than before.
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