AMD Rolls Up to Computex With New Threadripper and Radeon Processors

AMD did not disappoint at Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, announcing new versions of both Threadripper CPUs and Radeon GPUs targeted at the AI PC, workstation, and high-end desktop (HEDT) markets. 

New AMD Threadripper model introduced at Computex 2025.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series CPUs

AMD is delivering more performance for HEDTs and workstations with what it calls “the world’s best workstation processor.” The latest in the Ryzen Threadripper CPUs—what AMD terms “the world’s best workstation processor"—comes in two families: the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series for high-end enthusiasts and the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series for high-end enterprise workstations.

Both lines boast two processing threads per core, overclocking capability, and PCIe 5.0 in the AMD sTR5 socket. All 9000 series operate at a 350-W thermal design power (TDP) rating. AMD designed the Zen 5 architecture underlying the CPUs to deliver class-leading multi-threaded performance, energy efficiency, high memory bandwidth, and platform flexibility.

AMD Threadripper CPU chiplet architecture. 

AMD’s Threadripper Pro 9995WX flagship comes with 96 cores/192 threads, 348 MB of L3 cache, 128 PCIe Gen 5 lanes, and up to a 5.4-GHz clock speed at maximum boost setting. The integrated AMD Pro Technologies in the WX-series offer enterprise-tailored features such as multi-layered security, remote manageability, and long-term platform stability. The family offers six models with core counts of 12, 16, 24, 32, 64, and 96. 

All 9000 CPUs come with two threads per core capability, effectively doubling the core count for multi-threaded applications. Although early multi-core and multi-threaded CPUs suffered from poor software support, most of today’s applications can fully use multiple cores and multiple threads. Browsers can run different windows in different threads, and games and graphics applications can render different objects in different threads. AI can leverage the inherent parallel processing improvements garnered with extra cores and threads.

The 9000 series targets enthusiast PCs and HEDTs with three models: the 24-core 9960X, 32-core 9970X, and 64-core 9980X. The 9960X starts the series with a respectable 24 cores/48 threads, 4.3-GHz base speed/5.4-GHz max boost, and 128 MB of L3 cache.

AMD Radeon AI Pro 9700 AI Accelerator

AMD claims the Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPU coprocessing unit offers a 4x boost in edge AI over the previous generations. The R9700 AI accelerator module is built around AMD’s RDNA 4 graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture and instruction set. RDNA 4 provides high performance for gaming, rendering, and AI applications. RDNA 4 features second-generation AI acceleration with additional math pipelines and support for new data types such as FP8 and INT8 performance, boosting its performance to 8x over the previous generation.

AMD Radeon AI Pro 9700 AI accelerator unit. 

AMD designed the Radeon AI Pro R9700 AI accelerator for high-performance edge AI with 128 second-generation RDNA 4 cores coupled with 32 GB of DDR6 VRAM. 

Multi-processor Radeon AI Pro 9700 installation. 

The units deliver peak half-precision performance of up to 96 TFLOPS and INT4 sparse computation of up to 1531 TFLOPS. Multiple R9700 accelerators can be configured in the same system for LLM development, real-time rendering, and parallel simulations.

Radeon RX9060 XT GPU

The Radeon RX9060 XT GPU targets both gaming and edge AI applications. The RX9060 XT comes with 32 RDNA 4 GPU cores and doubles ray tracing capability over the previous generation. It supports up to 16 GB of DDR6 VRAM. For AI processing, it supports FP8 data types and structured sparsity.

A Ryzen AI Series for Light and Thin Laptops

AMD is also addressing the light and thin AI PC laptop category. The new Ryzen AI 7 350, AI 9 HX 370, and AI Max+ 395 CPUs are designed for power with portability. They emphasize performance while adhering to the power, thermal, and size limitations of light and thin laptops.

The mobile AI PC CPUs deliver multimodal edge AI performance that provides advanced reasoning and nuance analysis, enhanced contextual understanding, real-time data integration, and advanced personalization with user content. AMD pitted the new AI PC CPUs against comparable Intel and Apple mobile processors running multi-threaded applications.

AMD benchmarks against Intel and Apple's competitive offerings.

The new Ryzen AI series targets business and enterprise applications where small size and light weight are important, but performance can’t be compromised. According to AMD, small language models (SLM) with up to 70 billion parameters will factor heavily at the enterprise level due to their targeted nature. The Ryzen AI series is designed to bring such edge SLM capability to enterprise-level laptops.

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 series and AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 will be available in July 2025.

All images used courtesy of AMD.