ASUS WRX80 motherboard for AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs appears online

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An image of an ASUS WRX80 Pro WS Sage SE Wi-Fi motherboard has surfaced. This motherboard is for AMD Threadripper Pro processors, which include more PCIe lanes. These CPUs have been available for some time, but currently only for OEMs.

The ASUS WRX80 Pro WS Sage SE Wi-Fi hasn’t been officially announced yet, but tech website VideoCardz has published a render of the motherboard. This shows that the motherboard has eight memory slots and support for eight memory channels, among other things. The WRX80 Pro WS Sage also has seven PCIe 4.0 x16 slots. This is made possible by the Threadripper Pro CPUs, which have 128 PCIe lanes. The motherboard would use an SSI EEB form factor and features an actively cooled WRX80 chipset.

Threadripper Pro CPUs include additional PCIe lanes and memory channels over regular Threadripper chips. The Threadripper Pro CPUs therefore support a maximum of 2TB DDR4 memory. With regular variants, this is a maximum of 256GB. The Pro variants also get extra security features. For now, only Threadripper Pro 3000 processors based on the Zen 2 architecture are available. AMD released these chips in July.

Threadripper Pro CPUs are currently only available to OEMs. For example, AMD introduced the CPUs in a Lenovo prebuilt ThinkStation P620 PC. For that reason, there are no separate WRX80 motherboards available yet, although such motherboards have now appeared online, including the WRX80 Pro Sage SE from ASUS. An image of a Gigabyte WRX80 motherboard already appeared in December. AMD has not yet announced whether the company will also sell individual Threadripper Pro CPUs.

The ASUS WRX80 PRO WS SAGE SE Wi-Fi. Image via VideoCardz

Threadripper Pro 3000Thread ripper 3000
cores/threads Clock Speed ​​/ Boost Memory channels PCIe lanes
Threadripper Pro 3995WX 64/128 2.7GHz / 4.2GHz 8x ddr4-3200, max. 2TB 128
Threadripper Pro 3975WX 32/64 3.5GHz / 4.2GHz 8x ddr4-3200, max. 2TB 128
Threadripper Pro 3955WX 16/32 3.9GHz / 4.3GHz 8x ddr4-3200, max. 2TB 128
Threadripper Pro 3945WX 12/24 4.0GHz / 4.3GHz 8x ddr4-3200, max. 2TB 128
Threadripper 3990X 64/128 2.9GHz / 4.3GHz 4x ddr4-3200, max. 256GB 64
Threadripper 3970X 32/64 3.7GHz / 4.5GHz 4x ddr4-3200, max. 256GB 64
Threadripper 3960X 24/48 3.8GHz / 4.5GHz 4x ddr4-3200, max. 256GB 64
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