Tuesday, December 27th 2016
Motherboard Vendors Optimistic about High Price-Performance Ratio of AMD Ryzen
AMD Ryzen, the high performance processor based on the company's "Zen" micro-architecture, will increase the company's market-share of the desktop CPU market in Q2-2017, according to sources from motherboard manufacturers, in a report by Taiwan-based industry observer DigiTimes. The report states that motherboard manufacturers are "optimistic about [Ryzen's] high price/performance ratio," prompting them to ramp up orders of motherboards for the new platform, from their suppliers.
According to the report, the new platform built around the AMD Ryzen processor will be officially released by the end of February 2017, and will enter global mass-shipments in March. It will help increase AMD's desktop processor market share in the following quarter. The sources point out that motherboard vendors are sourcing high-end X370, mid-range B350, and entry-level A320 chipsets from AMD, and their new product designs are now in the final stage of related testing. The B350 and A320 chipsets are already launched, to support the 7th generation A-Series "Bristol Ridge" APUs.
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DigiTimes
According to the report, the new platform built around the AMD Ryzen processor will be officially released by the end of February 2017, and will enter global mass-shipments in March. It will help increase AMD's desktop processor market share in the following quarter. The sources point out that motherboard vendors are sourcing high-end X370, mid-range B350, and entry-level A320 chipsets from AMD, and their new product designs are now in the final stage of related testing. The B350 and A320 chipsets are already launched, to support the 7th generation A-Series "Bristol Ridge" APUs.
55 Comments on Motherboard Vendors Optimistic about High Price-Performance Ratio of AMD Ryzen
Also, the MSI board picture is from an AMD presentation, hence why it looks odd.
Every Intel Z-series board has had at least dual x16 slots (one x16 physical, one x8 physical) since Z68 days (except for the mITX ones obviously). That board looks like it has a x16 and an x4 physical which implies either AMD or Gigabyte - or both - don't see multi-GPU as a priority for Ryzen. That's somewhat concerning, especially since AMD's multi-GPU implementation uses the PCIe bus to share data and is thus, theoretically, more sensitive to bandwidth starvation.EDIT: this is completely incorrect, manufacturers have been doing x16/x4 on Intel boards since Z77 days at least.Also, Gigabyte, ditch the damn COM header already FFS. It's 2016, not 1996. I bet they're gonna slap a bloody VGA connector on it too.
Pic in this article is the same one that was used in the AMD's "New Horizon" event & quite frankly i found it really badly Photoshop'd something, odd looking really back then, even odder now, same level of odd only goes to that single x16 PCIe slot connectors on GA-AX370 Gaming; good thing something like that GA-AX370 still pops up. Can't quite disclose how i feel bout these news, really? lol
So, yeah - eight more days: CES 2017 takes place in Jan 5 thru 8. Jan 5th is next Thursday = 8 more days from now. Who's gonna do the coverage?
Thanx regardless bta & TheLostSwede for news & for that GA-AX370 pic respectively.
P.S. Two things are given though: still waiting for proper benchmarks of this thing here & regardless of how this'll turn out by then, will be looking for AM4 liquid cooling solutions from any vendor, (EKWB preferably tho :)) be it while CES still running and/or after that.
I am not falling for any AMD hype this time around.
www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5krghq/remember_the_canard_pc_magazine_about_zen_it_has/
It doesn't look like all hype, the benchmark numbers look solid considering the low clocks of the ES chips. There is real potential in Ryzen, pretty excited to see AMD back. Roll on Q2 2017!
Edit: even if you're not interested in Ryzen as a customer, be happy that it will bring intel's prices back down from the stratosphere if it's successful, everyone benefits from AMD back in the game ;)
No more cherry picked high-end boards with chipsets on steroids, straight lotterly of silicon. I was always a fan of oc'ing by FSB and having the best possible chipset available, not MP. FSB simply increases the rest of the system along with it.
But the CPU power is more then enough for now for most usual tasks.
tl;dr if you're still on Sandy/Ivy Bridge like a very large number of PC enthusiasts, Ryzen is looking like a great opportunity to finally move up to better performance, 8 physical cores and a modern feature set (NVMe, USB 3.1) for hopefully not too much cash. I'm certainly looking forward to it more than I've anticipated any AMD product launch in literally half a decade.
I like to see Intel socket, huge LGA 2011-3 or LGA 2066.
On Intel socket is harder to install CPU but look much sophisticated and more cool.
Nothing can compare with Intel motherboards with Xtreme chipset. AMD Crosshairs never reach that level as Rampage, even not as Maximus.
I say before Intel don't need to worry. His customers play almost 3 years on same performance as Ryzen and looks like Ryzen will arrive only few months before new Xtreme socket 2066. Adjusting price on 399-499-999 for 6-8-10 cores Intel lose nothing. They will only back on same price level as with X58 and X79 with only 2 cores improvements. Than we have battle between Ryzen for 400-500$ and between Intel 8 core Skylake Xtreme for similar price or 100$ more.
AMD if launch same as X99 is 2.5-3 years behind Intel. And customers much more believe to Intel, they will rather to go on Intel for high end and some of them will be suspicious to AMD. AMD will need time to back in same truck, I mean in same truck but behind Intel. Now Intel is in 3rd and AMD is in truck for broken vehichles...
Intel could optimize price as he want... maybe even 359$ - 599$ - 999$ for 6-8-10 cores and all of them 48 PCI-E lanes. Than everyone will get crazy good CPU.