AMD's Ryzen 7 CPUs had a full frontal assault on Intel's Core i7 in performance-per-price aspect and it may be doing so again not only with Ryzen 5 in mainstream CPU market but also at the very high-end PC platform held by Intel's HEDT processors. There has been an unverified report that AMD is working on a 16 core, 32 thread CPU to be the ultimate desktop CPU leveraging on its multithreaded monstrous power.

The Canard PC Hardware via twitter revealed AMD's new behemoth CPU with 16 cores and 32 threads to tackle Intel's HEDT lineup. AMD has long been saying that Ryzen is not just for gaming, which could be suggestive of AMD's future plans to produce a powerful workstation chip intended for the highest-end consumer desktop. This report is, of course, unverified, but it may be possible since AMD has been assaulting Intel head on starting with the Ryzen 7 processors pitted against Intel's Core i7 and the newly released mainstream Ryzen 5 CPUs against Intel's Core i5 processors. Now AMD may again be trolling Intel even on the highest-end consumer platform with its new monster CPU.

This AMD Ryzen monster CPU is not actually ideal for enthusiasts hardware as it may bring little benefit to gaming. Naturally, with more cores, the chips will have a lower clock speed or could retain the same speed but at higher energy consumption. This is seen in the Intel E7-8894 V2 with 24 cores achieving only 2.4GHz base clock and a boost to 3.4GHz in a high 165W TDP. As to which CPU is more powerful, Intel's HEDT chips or the monster AMD Ryzen depends on the workloads and its demands for multithreading, according to Extreme Tech.

Pricing is also an important factor and typically AMD, the alleged monster CPU will retail at $1000 or even less as compared to Intel's Core i7-6950X which has a $1,700 price tag with just 10 cores, PCGamesN has learned. Moreover, the new Ryzen CPU is reported to have quad channel DDR4 and its 16 cores configuration is actually two sets of 8 core CPU dies crammed into just a single package. This new detail seems to suggest that AMD may be abandoning the familiar 8 pin grid array (PGA) in favor of a land grid array (LGA). This puts the new die to be really huge, two times the size of an Intel chip based on current Broadwell-E processor, which is already big when compared to the Ryzen 7 chips.

More details may be revealed during the Computex event happening in May or June if such a behemoth AMD Ryzen does exist. Incidentally, Intel will also be releasing the Skylake X and Kaby Lake X chips in August. Consumers may see another round of an Intel vs. AMD battle that seems to be favoring the latter lately in many performance tests especially multi-threaded ones. The alleged AMD Ryzen CPU has the potential to alter the high-end market with more core counts to unleash a multithreading monster but at competitive pricing.

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