At Computex in Taiwan on Tuesday, chipmaker AMD announced new GPUs and CPUs, the Radeon RX 9060 XT, Radeon AI PRO R9700, and the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series chips. The company hopes to let users tackle intense workloads for gaming, content creation, and (of course) AI development.
The Radeon 9060 series GPUs offer AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture with 1440p resolution, ray tracing, and FIdelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) machine learning-enhanced upscaling. In other words, it makes your games look better without having to brute force it with a higher-end GPU.
“These announcements underscore our commitment to continue delivering industry-leading innovation across our product portfolio,” said Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Group, in a statement. “The Radeon RX 9060 XT and Radeon AI PRO R9700 bring the performance and AI capabilities of RDNA 4 to workstations and gamers all around the world, while our new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series sets the new standard for high-end desktops and professional workstations. Together, these solutions represent our vision for empowering creators, gamers, and professionals with the performance and efficiency to push boundaries and drive creativity.”
The new Radion AI Pro R9700 is a brand new GPU that comes with a massive 32GB memory, the latest PCIe Gen 5 form factor, and the latest AMD graphics tech, RDNA 4. It’s meant for those running local AI models and supports using multiple GPUs at once, a key factor in higher-end AI performance.
The RX 9060 XT 8GB comes with 32 compute units, 8GB of VRAM, a boost clock of up to 3.13, a 128-bit memory interface, and a Typical Power Budget (TPB) starting at 150W. The 16GB version doubles the VRAM and offers a 160W TPB. The former is set for $299 and the latter at $349, making these fairly affordable. They’re expected to be available starting July 2025.
The Ryzen Threadripper 9000 and the Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series CPUs promise impressive core counts, large memory bandwidths, and what AMD calls “next-gen platform capabilities” to workloads like rendering VFX for movies, real-world physics simulation, or fine-tuning AI models.
The Threadripper Pro tops out with the 9995WX, offering 96 cores for up to 192 threads of processing ability, a 2.5 GHz base frequency (with a 5.4 GHz boost frequency) a TDP of 350 W and a total cache of 480 MB.
The non-pro Threadripper stops at the 9980X, with 64 cores and 128 threads,3.2 GHz/5.4 GHz frequencies, a 350 W TDP, and 152 total cache.
AMD doesn’t detail pricing, instead referring to their partners like Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Supermicro, who are slated to add the Pro version to their machines later this year. The non-pro CPUs could start showing up as soon as July 2025.