System76's New Linux Workstation Has Updated AMD Threadripper CPUs
AMD's Ryzen chips are already plenty powerful, but for those users who are looking for the absolute best, the company's aptly-named Threadripper chips are the option you should check out. The lineup took a bit of a break with Zen 3, where AMD only released Threadripper chips for business use, but now, the lineup is fully back for Zen 4. Now, Linux computer manufacteror System76 has new workstation desktops with the CPUs.
At CES 2024, System76 showed off its Thelio Major computer, a desktop PC that's powered with up to an AMD Threadripper 7980X. That chip comes with a whopping 64 cores and 128 threads and is based off the Zen 4 architecture, so as far as silicon goes, it's probably the very best silicon AMD is willing to offer to customers right now. There are a number of pros and cons to these high-end desktop chips compared to regular consumer chips like the Ryzen series, and the generalized consensus is that for most people, these aren't worth it. They can smash through multithreaded tasks on a whim, but they're rather lackluster in single-core performance. That being said, if you happen to have a workload that benefits from this kind of hardware, this is probably among the best chips you can get.
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New Thelio Major with Zen 4 Threadripper CPUs
The Thelio Major desktop was chosen to showcase both AMD and Gigabyte’s latest workstation-class Hey Hi (AI) hardware.
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System76 Updates Thelio to Offer New AMD Threadripper CPUs
If you're looking to get the most power for your desktop, System76 has what you need by way of a Thelio desktop powered by the Zen 4 AMD Threadripper.