Reference to TRX40 motherboard appears on MSI website website

A reference to a TRX40 motherboard has appeared on MSI’s website. This is the Creator TRX40. Previous rumors state that AMD is working on three new chipsets for the next generation of Threadripper CPUs; TRX40, TRX80 and WRX80.

The Creator TRX40 is, as the name suggests, is part of MSI’s Creator series. This series of motherboards is intended for content creators and has a focus on expandability with extra PCI-e slots, USB ports and SATA connections. Creator motherboards have always been made for hedt processors until now. So it seems to be a motherboard for the upcoming third-generation Threadripper CPUs. The Creator TRX40 was featured on an MSI promo page, VideoCardz discovered.

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Three chipsets are expected for the third-generation Threadripper chips: TRX40, TRX80 and WRX80. Those names appeared on the USB Implementers Forum website in August, discovered Twitter user @momomo_us. The chipsets have since been removed from USB-IF.

Rumor has it that the new TRX motherboards are not compatible with old Threadripper CPUs. Also, the upcoming Threadripper CPUs could not be used in X399 motherboards, claims tech site ReHWolution via Twitter.

There is a chance that the upcoming Threadripper CPUs will use a new socket, but there is no concrete evidence of this yet. AMD’s third-generation server CPUs, Epyc Rome, use socket SP3, which was also used for the first-generation Epyc CPUs. AMD’s consumer processors, the Ryzen 3000 models, also still use the AM4 socket, which has been in use since 2017.

The third-generation Threadripper CPUs will be released in November, along with the Ryzen 9 3950X. The new Threadrippers are likely based on the Zen 2 architecture with 7nm cores. AMD says it will initially launch a 24-core model. AMD will probably come later with other skus with more cores; after all, there is already a model with 32 cores in the current series.