Eat that INTEL!
After rearing up its performance chops in Cinebench, impressing with its score (as well it should, considering it’s a 32-core, 64-thread beast), we can now add another, arguably more important metric to the upcoming AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990X… Price. And pricing, if the early listing from German site Cyberport.de is anything to go by, seems adequate to the level of performance – and bragging rights – earned from dropping one of these onto your AMD system.
€1509 (~$1750) is almost double that of AMD’s previous top-end Threadripper 1950X, which is on sale, through Amazon.de, for €777 ($999). A doubling in cores does seem to warrant a doubling in price – the fact that the 2990X is selling for less than that, though, remains slightly impressive. Let’s see what Intel can pull anything else to compete out of its proverbial hat.
Source: Cyberport.de via TPU
