AMD has shared in-house performance testing of its Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series, claiming up to a 26% generational uplift relative to Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series. The brand also states that its 64-core CPU beats Intel Xeon alternatives by up to 108%, flaunting Zen 5’s architectural strengths.
Set to launch in July, Ryzen Threadripper 9000X and PRO 9000WX Series will offer up to 64 cores and 96 cores, respectively. They’ll arrive with 64MB-384MB of cache, 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes, plus support for eight-channel DDR5-6400 ECC memory. With the maximum core count remaining unchanged from Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series, the majority of performance uplifts stem from Zen 5 architectural improvements and higher operating frequencies.
Even so, AMD advertises a healthy 16% geomean IPC uplift in 10 workstation benchmarks and 25% in SPEC workstation, both at a fixed frequency and using the flagship 96-core CPU. Exploring some of the results, Threadripper Pro 9995WX should offer up to 17% more performance in Autodesk Maya, 26% in Adobe After Effects, 26% in KeyShot, 15% in Corona Render, and 23% in DeepSeek R1 TTFT. These are impressive improvements considering the nature of change behind Threadripper 9000 Series but we should take these results with a grain of salt for the moment.
AMD put the 64-core Threadripper 9980X against the 60-core Intel Xeon W9-3595X, with the former pulling ahead dramatically. The new Ryzen delivered performance that was up to 108% the better of its competitor. Drilling down, there’s a 92% advantage for Threadripper in Autodesk Maya, 22% in Adobe Premiere Pro, and 65% in Unreal Engine Compilation. Usual caveats of internal benchmarks aside, this is staggering.
With the launch of Threadripper 9000X and PRO 9000WX CPUs, AMD should confidently cement its presence in the HEDT segment. Better yet, professionals planning an upgrade for their TRX50 and WRX90 platforms won’t need a new motherboard or RAM, a simple BIOS update will do the trick. There’s still no word on pricing but one shouldn’t expect Threadripper to be cheap.
