16 cores with 32 threads?  I don’t know what I’d use it for…. but I want one!  Apparently Intel got wind of this and announced their i9 cpu..  can it compete with “Threadripper”?  Can it beat it?

16-core, 32-thread versions of AMD Ryzen CPUs codenamed Threadripper will launch this summer, the company revealed at its Financial Analyst Day yesterday.

With one of the gnarliest CPU codenames we’ve ever seen, the Threadripper multicore monsters will go head to head with Intel’s Broadwell-E and upcoming Skylake-E High-End Desktop (HEDT) CPUs alongside a new motherboard platform that promises expanded memory support and I/O bandwidth. That’s likely to take the form of quad-channel RAM and more PCIe lanes, similar to Intel’s X99 platform, but AMD is saving further details for its press conference at Computex at the end of May.

AMD also unveiled their new data center line of processors… with a terrible name: Epyc

Finally, AMD unveiled the new Epyc (yes, really) data centre processor. Epyc is the new name for the Naples data centre SoCs that AMD announced earlier this year. Presumably the marketing department went out for a few celebratory beers after coming up with “Threadripper” before returning to work on the data centre part.

The physically massive Epyc chip sports 32 cores and 64 threads, 128 PCIe 3.0 lanes, and eight memory channels per socket for a total of 16 DDR4 channels and 32 DIMMs in a two-socket server. That’s a potential maximum of 4TB of memory, which will come in handy for places like VFX render farms where a single frame of a film can consume gigabytes of memory.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/amd-ryzen-threadripper-price-specs-release-date/