Something to look forward to: AMD'southward Ryzen Threadripper 5000 series, Genesis Peak is expected to exist announced in the coming weeks and a recent leak suggests that the 16-core version of the HEDT chip might make a comeback. This is anomalous since their Ryzen 5950X already boasts 16-cores, and then assuming the information is legitimate, nosotros'll have to encounter if AMD'due south assessment well-nigh demand for this cadre-count plays out.

As with previous Ryzen generations, AMD will be following upward its successful Ryzen 5000 series launch with Genesis Peak, its line of high-stop desktop (HEDT) Threadripper CPUs leveraging the new Zen 3 architecture.

In the first two Threadripper incarnations, the everyman tier HEDT role AMD sold was a 16-core, 32-thread chip, boasting more cores than the highest-tier, 8-cadre consumer parts. The post-obit release cycle saw the 16-core, Ryzen 3950X enter the top of the consumer category, with the adjacent all-time chip beingness Castle Peak's 24-cadre, Threadripper 3960X.

It seems during this bicycle however, AMD might be keen to bring dorsum the xvi-core Threadripper SKU while still selling the Ryzen 5950X, its 16-core consumer bit. The information comes from a tweet past Yuri Bubliy, otherwise known as 1usmus and developer of Clock Tuner for Ryzen, who published a HEX code riddle, that when converted to ASCII, reads "Genesis 16 cores."

If this proves right, we can presume that AMD has institute a sweet spot at the 16-core marker, but enough of the market demands the high caches, quad aqueduct back up, and other professional features that come up with HEDT chips and the TR4 chipset that they feel is worth making both SKUs. That said, we do not know if Genesis Peak will support the current TR4 chipset, or if AMD will require something new this cycle.

Another mystery will exist the naming scheme of this rehashed fleck since the Ryzen 5950X has already taken the nomenclature that the Threadripper x950X one time held.

Time will tell once it is released, and nosotros pray AMD doesn't make information technology more disruptive for consumers than information technology has to exist. Equally this is an early on leak, there is no sign of a release engagement, only AMD is expected to talk nearly Genesis Peak this month at CES 2022.