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Intel’s Core i9 and AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper are facing off in the toughest CPU match in years. Historically, if you wanted the fastest PC chip, you bought Intel. If you wanted to save money, you went ...

The AMD Threadripper platform represents the red team's first high-end desktop processor range and possibly AMD's most exciting CPUs in recent memory. Like Intel, they're taking their new server tech ...

AMD's new 64-core/128-thread 2900 MHz Ryzen Threadripper 3990X is the new beast on the block. The core count is a world's first for a HEDT (High-End Desktop) processor, and it is squarely aimed at the ...

We analyse the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors, in this review, we'll deal with the 32-core/74-threaded Threadripper 7970X, paired with a TRX50 motherboard. We'll look at multithreaded ...

We review, test and analyze the all-new Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors, in this review in specific the Threadripper 7980X. The many-core beast is paired with a TRX50 motherboard. We tested ...