Threadripper was nearly pointless. What they really need is some SP5 workstation boards, but what does that even get you that you don't get from the server boards? Integrated audio? Just add a sound card.

The real disappointment is the clock speeds on the lower core count Epyc SKUs. Epyc 9124 and Ryzen 9 7950X have the same configuration and Epyc has a higher TDP but it's 3GHz/3.7GHz instead of 4.5GHz/5.7GHz.

And the reason for it is that the Epyc SKUs with more cores have almost the same TDP, which they couldn't hit with twice as many cores at 4.5GHz -- the 9334 has a base clock of 2.7GHz, and probably not artificially. Who is going to pay ~$3000 for a 32-core 2.7GHz 9334 if there was a ~$1000 16-core 4.5GHz 9124? It would be only 20% faster for three times the price. So they artificially limit the 9124 for market segmentation.

Then there is nothing available with the higher clock speeds that has more I/O, 12 memory channels and RDIMMs. Which seems like leaving money on the table. I mean, sell something on SP5 with the 7950X's clock speeds for some price. WTF.