Prey running in 4K on the AMD Threadripper CPU with Radeon Vega Frontier Edition GPUs.
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AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper with 2 Radeon Vega GPUs runs Prey at 4K

Advanced Micro Devices announced its Ryzen Threadripper processor today, as well as its new Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics processing units (GPUs). And the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said that these chips are going to make gamers very happy.

In a demo at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, AMD executive Jim Anderson showed off the new flagship central processing unit (CPU), the Ryzen Threadripper. The processor is based on AMD’s Zen architecture, which can process 52 percent more instructions per clock cycle compared to AMD’s older CPUs.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.