AMD Confirms Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000WX Pricing, 96 Cores For $11,699

AMD is still playing it coy as to when exactly its retail partners will begin selling its newly-minted Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series processors, but it has now revealed official pricing. Those who want to shoot straight to the top of the stack are looking at spending $11,699 for the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX, which works out to around $121.86 per core.

It's pricey, but it's also a bodacious Zen 5 chip with 96 cores and 192 threads running at 2.5GHz (base frequency) to 5.4GHz (max boost clock). It also wields a whole lot of L3 cache at 384MB, plus 96MB of L2 cache for a whopping 480MB of total cache.

We have not tested AMD's flagship Shimada Peak chip yet, but according to AMD, it offers up to a 26% generational performance uplift versus the previous flagship, the Ryzen Threadripper ...