While, as always, you should wait for third-party results before drawing a firm conclusion, AMD's first-party results show the 9995WX as significantly faster than the 7995WX and Intel's 60-core Xeon W9-3595X—by up to 145% in some benchmarks. Considering the core disparity, though, that's not exactly surprising.

AMD said the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series, packing up to 96 cores and a maximum 5.4GHz boost frequency, and the 32-GB Radeon AI Pro R9700 graphics card will arrive in July for workstation PCs.

Designed for the xTR5 socket, the Shimada Peak platform includes two distinct families: the Threadripper Pro 9000 WX and the non-Pro Threadripper 9000 Series. The Pro