AMD Launches Ryzen: 52% More IPC, Eight Cores for Under $330, Pre-order Today, On Sale March 2nd

[ethomaz]

• Ryzen 7 1800X: 8C/16T, 3.6 GHz base, 4.0 GHz turbo, 95W, $499
• Ryzen 7 1700X: 8C/16T, 3.4 GHz base, 3.8 GHz turbo, 95W, $399
• Ryzen 7 1700: 8C/16T, 3.0 GHz base, 3.7 GHz turbo, $329

AMD Launches Ryzen: 52% More IPC, Eight Cores for Under $330, Pre-order Today, On Sale March 2nd

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

Looks good, any mother boards announced?

[ethomaz]

Looks good, any mother boards announced?

There are a lot of motherboards being launched with the new chipset but the old ones works too.




The preliminar list of motherboard announced with new chipset.

• ASRock X370 Taichi
• ASRock X370 Gaming K4
• ASRock AB350 Gaming K4
• ASRock A320M Pro 4
• ASUS B350M-C
• Biostar X370GT7
• Biostar X350GT5
• Biostar X350GT3
• GIGABYTE AX370-Gaming K5
• GIGABYTE AX370-Gaming 5
• GIGABYTE AB350-Gaming 3
• GIGABYTE A320M-HD3
• MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium
• MSI B350 Tomahawk
• MSI B350M Mortar
• MSI A320M Pro-VD

[Aura7541]

Looks like I'll be using Ryzen when I get a rig.

[ethomaz]

I'm really interested to see the benchmarks next week.

AMD slides looks so good to be true hope they delivery.

[BasilZero]

I wonder how Intel will respond.

[ethomaz]

Reviews at out.

Great at multi thread.
Bad for games or single-core.

[darkknightkryta]

Reviews at out.

Great at multi thread.
Bad for games or single-core.

I thought their IPC caught up?  Why bad for games?  The FX Line actually proved out well for games once Direct X12 came out, how did they screw up here?

[ethomaz]

I thought their IPC caught up?  Why bad for games?  The FX Line actually proved out well for games once Direct X12 came out, how did they screw up here?

The IPC and clocks are not at Intel level (overclock and power draw is bad with Ryzen too).

It does way better than any FX for games but it lost for cheaper Intel options.

The biggest archiment is multi-thread work... rendering, encoding, etc... all these things Ryzen do really great.

Single-thread jobs Intel has a pretty good advantage.

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

Uh.  I was watching Linus and it seems single thread is pretty much even.

And theres still bugs that need worked out to get memory where it should be. But amd pretty much leveled the playing feild.

Which is good, because intell has stupid high prices.

[darkknightkryta]

Uh.  I was watching Linus and it seems single thread is pretty much even.

And theres still bugs that need worked out to get memory where it should be. But amd pretty much leveled the playing feild.

Which is good, because intell has stupid high prices.

Yeah I was about to post, it looks like the way AMD uses SMT Windows doesn't like.  Or something.  When its disabled its performance increases.  Sounds like a Microsoft update in either Direct X or the way Windows multithreads would be better.

[ethomaz]

Game benchmark in 720p to not have the GPU bottleneck.

[Aura7541]

Uh.  I was watching Linus and it seems single thread is pretty much even.

And theres still bugs that need worked out to get memory where it should be. But amd pretty much leveled the playing feild.

Which is good, because intell has stupid high prices.

Performance should get better once AMD work out the driver kinks

[ethomaz]

Performance should get better once AMD work out the driver kinks

Are there drivers for CPU?

I remember the first Athlon X2 having a driver because the XP didn't have support for 2 cores but after SP1 it was not required anymore because XP supported 2 cores.

[darkknightkryta]

Are there drivers for CPU?

I remember the first Athlon X2 having a driver because the XP didn't have support for 2 cores but after SP1 it was not required anymore because XP supported 2 cores.

Bios drivers.  Plus Windows has to do work with the way Ryzen is doing it's multi threading.  Sounds like there's a lot of work on the software side for both AMD and Microsoft.  Linux benchmarks would actually be interesting to look at.