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a big thanks to MSI and Corsair for sponsoring our Computex 2018 coverage check out courses fancy new Vengeance RGB memory and if you're thinking of upgrading your gaming monitor MSI optics mpg curved gaming monitors come back with a 144 Hertz refresh rate 1,800 our curvature and up to 1440p resolution for a limited time they include a free SteelSeries mouse pad and steam giftcard with every purchase in selected countries see the link in the description to upgrade your game with MSI welcome back to hard run box I've just gotten back from AMD's 2018 Computex press event and there was a whole range of really cool things on show I'm gonna tell you about in just a moment I raced all the way back to our hotel room to film this video and as you can see AMD has given me a t-shirt for my efforts says thread Ripert's second-generation on it so i'm sure you can guess exactly what we'll be talking about in this video without wasting any more of your time let's get straight into the details on second-generation thread Ripper the cool thing that AMD announced was the fact that there will be a 32 cores 64 threaded second gen thread Ripper processor which goes well above the 16 core 32 thread processor that we got with the first generation line unfortunately while we do know there's a 32 core processor coming we don't have any other official details so we don't know the final clock speeds cache configuration TDP or pricing however AMD did give some information on their thread Ripper to engineering sample test systems which were clocked in a 3.0 gigahertz base and turbo up to a 3.4 gigahertz or core boost although those specs aren't final and they also lists a 250 watt TDP though power consumption apparently won't be that high in most workloads and for testing they used an air cooler called the wraith Ripper that we haven't seen just yet but we do know it's built on a 12 nanometer processing node and it uses the Zen plus architecture so that shouldn't come as a surprise considering we got both of those features with second-generation Rison AMD did show off a second generation thread Ripper processor including a deleted version of that chip so we can see the four separate dies that are included this is the same as first generation thread Ripper however with this second gen 32 core model of course all four of those dies will be active there are no dummy dies in this process of like with the first generation Art's an antic also discovered that while the 32 course cue will have four active dyes only two will have direct access to memory channels while the other two will need to access memory through the Infinity fabric AMD says this should only impact memory heavy workloads and he also has a 24 call thread rescue in the works though at this point we're not sure what is being disabled to achieve that core count whether it's a whole eight cord die or perhaps two cores per die second-generation thread Ripper CPUs will be supported on the x3 99 platform and will slot into existing x3 99 motherboards so that explains why companies like MSI are beefing up their x3 99 options with improved VRMs we have heard that that 32 core CPU will come with a TDP of 250 watts so you'll certainly need improved power delivery and better coolers to handle these new processes AMD did state the second Channel thread Ripper will be ready in the third quarter of 2018 we have heard specifically that it will be August that these chips are coming out first generation third Ripper came out in August of 2017 so it makes sense that the second gen comes out in August of 2018 we don't know any other details on that to share but it is super exciting that we are getting a 32 core processor in the works from a MIDI in there thread Ripper line in fact we did actually see some performance figures for the 32 cord chip we saw that run a blender benchmark it did some intensive processing unfortunately AMD didn't compare the 32 core processor to any other of their chips or any other chips from the competition they did however use a 24 course cue and compared that to the 18 core Intel Core I 979 ATX East that's an 18 core CPU there and they did finish a blender workload around 5 seconds faster than the Intel processor around 29 seconds on the thread Ripper 2nd gen 24 core part and again 5 seconds longer on the intel part so very early performance numbers there for the 2nd gen thread Ripper CPUs but hopefully we could be getting some more details about that in the coming months as far as GPUs are concerned AMD didn't have as much to share they did state that 7 nanometre Vega is now sampling to select customers and is on track for release in the second half of 2018 then of course we still expect the first 7 innovative Vega products will be part of their Radeon instinct line that said aim be did tease that 7 nanometre Vega will be to gaming products in the near future so stay tuned for that that they weren't willing to give any additional details at the moment anybody did give us an idea though of what the seven nanometer node will provide relative to the 40 nanometer known for Vega including twice the density and twice the power efficiency of the 14 nanometer node and we're also expecting around 1.3 five times the performance so hopefully that will translate to those gaming products built with seven nanometer Vega in the coming months if you address it in laptops built on the rise in you series line we did get a range of new designs on show from companies like a soos and Huawei for the first time these laptops include the HP Envy x-360 13-inch we've got the new as sous 15-inch slim and light we've gotten a sous laptop with Rison an Nvidia graphics though a Nova IdeaPad 5 30s we also have the huawei mate book D 14 with horizon 5 2500 you inside that's a 14-inch slim and light design as well there so some pretty compelling laptops from AMD and their partners they're showing off those rice and CPUs inside and be also mentioned they have their second-generation epic processes in the labs right now for testing they've decided to completely skip Zen Plus for the epic line instead going straight to Zen to on the 7 nanometer node should be super interesting to see what they're doing the service base with the seven nanometer node and Zen - that should be sampling in the second half of 2018 right on track for release in 2019 the final things Amy had on show were things that we have seen before however Amy took the time to formally announce them at Computex 2018 we have the power color rx Vega 56 nano GPU which includes a fully fledged Vega 56 inside but of course it is a more compact card and if you have a samsung q LED TV you will be getting a free sync update very shortly that will allow you to use free sync with either a PC or either an Xbox one S or Xbox one X so very cool that they're expanding the free sync ecosystem into TVs as well that's it for Amy's announcements at Computex 2018 super excited about second generation thread Ripper and that 32 course 64 thread processor will be very interesting to see how that performs when we get our hands on it in the coming months you might even consider upgrading our video editing workstations to that super beastly CPU when we eventually get our hands on it anyway big thanks to our Computex 2018 sponsors MSI and Corsair for helping bring us to Taipei this year don't forget to subscribe for the rest of our Computex 2018 coverage and I'll catch you in the next one you