[HN Gopher] AMD's new 96-core Threadripper CPU
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       AMD's new 96-core Threadripper CPU
        
       Author : liquid99
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2025-07-19 19:52 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | oblio wrote:
       | Just curious, are the older versions just... gone? It seems their
       | availability is quite limited.
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       | Also, does Intel have something comparable?
        
         | fooker wrote:
         | > does Intel have something comparable
         | 
         | Not for the last 7 years.
        
       | highfrequency wrote:
       | Pricing is disappointing - no cheaper than the existing AMD
       | server equivalent Epyc Turin 9655 ($11.5k for 96 cores).
       | https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/9005-...
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       | Significantly worse price/core than the earlier Threadripper 64
       | core 3990x for $3900.
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | > The Pro 9000 WX-Series processors are also designed for local
       | AI deployments, including fine-tuning models, inference, and AI
       | application development. "When running a context-based prompting
       | inference test using DeepSeek R1 32B, we are seeing a 49 percent
       | better performance of Threadripper Pro 9000 over Intel," claims
       | AMD.
       | 
       | Are they using the CPU as a GPU here?
        
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