The 2990x threadripper is listed at a Canadian retailer for $ 1,835

AMD recently held the Threadripper 2 event in Maranello and it seems the family's flagship processor, the brand new Ryzen Threadripper 2990X, is starting to hit retail stores around the world.

Threadripper 2990X begins to appear in stores

The processor was recently seen at a well-known retailer's store for a price of 2, 400 CAD ($ 1, 835). The AMD Threadripper 2990X is the flagship of the TR2 platform and has no less than 32 cores and 64 threads, especially for the server sector or for those teams that have a very high workload beyond video games, like professional video editing.

Pre-orders are often quite expensive on many occasions, so if that's the case here, we can expect the Ryzen Threadripper 2990X to retail at a price of around $ 1, 499 to $ 1, 799.

The Threadripper 2990X will have a 250W TDP, 80MB of L3 cache, but only 4 channels of memory. Unlike the 1950X, which was still geared a bit towards gamers and streamers, the 2990X will be a serious choice for professional video or data center editing. It would not be surprising if SMEs bought it for their servers without the cost associated with EPYC.

The chip is expected to have a base clock of 3.4 GHz and a maximum boost clock of 4.0 GHz, and can reach 4.2 GHz for tasks that require a single core. The new Threadripper series will officially premiere on August 13.

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