Well, it seems that official release of The Monster (TR2) is very close, August 13th.
The Beast of 32C/64T will run at 4.0GHz on ALL cores using air-cooling - a huge cooler from Cooler Master and AMD.
It's going to reach more than 6000 running Cinebench.
Intel's response leaked that is going to be announced around October and released on November-December but it's not going to add more cores - up to 18C/36T just with better clocks.
So, with a performance of an overclocked EPYC 32C/64T and without competition from Intel, AMD doesn't really sell TR2 at 1800$
AMD donates TR2 to the people!
https://videocardz.com/77031/amd-ryz...pricing-leaked