Wednesday, February 22nd 2017
AMD Reveals Ryzen 7 Family, Pricing, and Radeon Vega Logo
At a press event by AMD, company CEO Lisa Su unveiled the first three AMD Ryzen desktop processor models, the top-dog Ryzen 7-1800X, the Ryzen 7-1700X, and the Ryzen 7-1700. The R7-1800X is priced at USD $499, followed by the R7-1700X at $399, and the R7-1700 at $329. The three chips will be available for purchase on the 2nd of March, 2017. The R7-1800X is clocked at 3.60 GHz, with a TurboCore frequency of 4.00 GHz, and the XFR (extended frequency range) feature, which further overclocks the chip, depending on the effectiveness of your CPU cooler.
The Ryzen 7-1700X ships with 3.40 GHz clocks, with 3.80 GHz TurboCore frequency, and the XFR feature. The Ryzen 7-1700 lacks XFR, and comes with slightly lower clocks, at 3.00 GHz core, and 3.70 GHz TurboCore. All three are true 8-core chips, with 512 KB of dedicated L2 cache per core, and 16 MB of shared L3 cache. Also featured are dual-channel DDR4 integrated memory controllers, and an integrated PCI-Express gen 3.0 root complex. The Ryzen 7-1700 has a TDP of just 65W (for a performance 8-core chip that's a kick in the butts of Intel's engineers), and will include an AMD Wraith Max cooling solution, while the 1700X and 1800X have TDP rated at 95W, and will come without coolers. At its media event, CEO Lisa Su stated that at $499, the Ryzen 7-1800X "smokes" the Intel Core i7-6900K eight-core processor. The company also unveiled the branding of its Radeon Vega enthusiast graphics family. Lastly, feast your eyes on the beautiful, 14 nm, Made-in-USA die-shot of Ryzen.
Source:
HotHardware
The Ryzen 7-1700X ships with 3.40 GHz clocks, with 3.80 GHz TurboCore frequency, and the XFR feature. The Ryzen 7-1700 lacks XFR, and comes with slightly lower clocks, at 3.00 GHz core, and 3.70 GHz TurboCore. All three are true 8-core chips, with 512 KB of dedicated L2 cache per core, and 16 MB of shared L3 cache. Also featured are dual-channel DDR4 integrated memory controllers, and an integrated PCI-Express gen 3.0 root complex. The Ryzen 7-1700 has a TDP of just 65W (for a performance 8-core chip that's a kick in the butts of Intel's engineers), and will include an AMD Wraith Max cooling solution, while the 1700X and 1800X have TDP rated at 95W, and will come without coolers. At its media event, CEO Lisa Su stated that at $499, the Ryzen 7-1800X "smokes" the Intel Core i7-6900K eight-core processor. The company also unveiled the branding of its Radeon Vega enthusiast graphics family. Lastly, feast your eyes on the beautiful, 14 nm, Made-in-USA die-shot of Ryzen.
141 Comments on AMD Reveals Ryzen 7 Family, Pricing, and Radeon Vega Logo
Remember Deneb CPUs, they had the same (officialy reported) transistor count on dual, tri and quad core models.
images.anandtech.com/doci/11143/AMD%20Ryzen%20Tech%20Day%20-%20Lisa%20Su%20Keynote_IanCutress-page-035.jpgHaswel -E, released in 2014, 8 core one.On one of the slides we can see idle power consumption of chips.
8 core Ryzens consume about 40, 8 core i7's about 60, 4 core i7 30W.
They do not mention actual power consumption under load though.
Possibly because when mentioned performance is achieved there isn't much difference between "140w" intel and "95w" ryzen.
Being on par is still good achievement for AMD, keeping in mind they are still on inferior process node.
I have to admit, though, the 1700 makes the other two irrelevant. XFR might be interesting in theory, but for a 20/50% price premium? Not much., especially when considering all those chips are OC'able, making the clock differences also irrelevant to many. The whole thing doesn't make sense! But I guess that's just the cynicism one acquires after a decade-long monopoly.
How long it took AMD to catch up is what is worrying.
www.anandtech.com/show/11143/amd-launch-ryzen-52-more-ipc-eight-cores-for-under-330-preorder-today-on-sale-march-2nd
Of course in a weeks' time we will see how much this bares out.
So why the billion extra transistors?
This is why I am waiting for benchmarks like everyone else. If XFR boosts well under a beefy air cooler or AIO, then I might go with the 1700X. But if it doesn't help and manual OC is the way to go, then I will get the 1700 and do it myself.