Some new info

There is a rumor that AMD might switch it up this time around and focus on the workstation crowd as well. If the rumor turns out to be true, AMD could launch up to two Ryzen Threadripper 3000-series product lines, one for the consumer market and another for the workstation market.

AMD has firmly committed on the TR socket to house the chipmaker's HEDT processors, so we expect the Castle Peak to retain the same socket. You can probably get Castle Peak up and running on an X399 motherboard with a simple BIOS upgrade, similar to getting Colfax to work on an X399 motherboard. However, you probably won't have access to Zen 2's new features.

The current theory is that "TR" in TRX40 and TRX80 stands for Threadripper while the "W" in WRX80 denotes workstation. The existence of the WRX80 partially confirms the assumption that AMD could put out two Castle Peak lineups. We're equally unsure what the numbers represent, but many believe they depict the number of memory channels, which isn't absurd. This means that the TRX40 and TRX80 chipsets could sport four and eight memory channels, respectively. These are obviously aimed at the consumer market. The WRX80 chipset, on the other hand, could target workstation systems and should arrive with support for eight memory channels, ECC (error-correcting code) memory, more PCIe 4.0 lanes, and other workstation-class features.

Castle Peak performs up to 11% and 18% faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X in single-and multi-core workloads, respectively.

Flagship processor for the Ryzen Threadripper 3000-series will potentially max out at 32 cores and 64 threads.

The 32-core Castle Peak has received a substantial upgrade in the cache department. The processor seemingly features up to 128MB of L3 cache, which is double of what we find on the current Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX. The L2 cache remains the same, and the Castle Peak processor apparently has 1MB less L1 cache. Comparing the best Castle Peak run with the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, the former outperforms the latter by up to 4.72% and 14.63% in single-and multi-core workloads.

There is a good chance AMD can launch Castle Peak on September 7, which coincidentally falls between IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin) 2019 tradeshow in Berlin.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-3000,6309.html

Present leaks suggest 7th November release date, day of October revolution :-)

sTRX4 will be 4 chiplets, while sWRX8 will be 8 chiplets, so that’d be a 32-core HEDT CPU and higher core-count workstation CPU, potentially up to 64 cores, although it’s possible that AMD could disable some of them or bin-out from failed Epyc CPUs.

We won't see 32 core model for now due to very low yields and all good chiplets going to EPYC CPUs.

ASRock TRX40 Taichi & Creator coming in November. Not backward compatible with 1st and 2nd Gen Threadripper CPUs. Also, 3rd Gen TR CPUs won't work on X399 boards.

Nice greedy capitalists :-)

Again 100% of all EPYC old boards work with 3rd gen EPYCs, and it is really same socket (just more pins used and such).

Some CPU list from AMD website

280W TDP even for 16 core chip, huh.

End of air cooling era.

AsRock board upcoming

TRX40 Taichi, TRX40 Taichi R2.0, TRX40 Creator, TRX40 Creator R2.0,

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Looking at the leaks above and 280W TDP I highly doubt that 64 core models can be cooled by this cooler.

TDP of 280W doesn't make sense at all. Maybe for the 64C monster, but not 16/24 or even 32.

Well, that would be a huge step backwards. If someone runs their hardware 24/7 or most of the day anyway, electricity bills become an issue. I think it's best to get TR2 these days - because the 3rd gen will be announced soon, they can be had for decent money. After turning off Core Boost and playing a bit with PPT it's possible to get a pretty economic setup without sacrificing a lot of performance.

What!!!!!!! 1000buck for main board!!!! Crazy days of pc.