AMD’s Threadripper 3990x is still – sadly – the cheapest 64-core CPU you can buy

With new Zen 3 processors expected to be launched before the end of 2021, AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, the firm’s mighty 64-core (128-thread) processor, has received an unwelcome price bump that pushed its price back to almost its original suggested retail price of $3,999.

Not bad for a product launched in February 2020. Newegg sells it – with a limit of two per customer – for $3949.99, far lower than Microcenter’s shocking $4999.99 price tag for the same product.

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