AMD Reveals Ryzen 7 Family, Pricing, and Radeon Vega Logo

[theGryphon]

I want that 1700 in a laptop.

 

[medi01]

ALL ABOARD....THE HYPETRAIN!!!

Let's tone it done a bit.
computerbase guys say it doesn't OC much, without any specifics, so even 4.5 would be a great achievement I guess. (haswell could do, what, 4.3Ghz?)

On the other hand, AMD just entered 14nm scene and at stock clock its 8 core products look very solid, so there is hope for real competition.

 

[simlariver]

Keep in mind that Ryzen is cheaper, not only as individual cpu, but as a platform too.

Mobo are cheaper. Way cheaper in the case of X99.
No need for quad channel memory.
USB 3.1 G2 for EVERYONE.

 

[cdawall]

Keep in mind that Ryzen is cheaper, not only as individual cpu, but as a platform too.

Mobo are cheaper. Way cheaper in the case of X99.
No need for quad channel memory.
USB 3.1 G2 for EVERYONE.

They don't have as much integrated onto the board they should be cheaper by design.

 

[Casecutter]

AMD has caught up, not suppressed Intel.

Suppressed is a odd take... Though it has in many ways surpassed Intel (for the next year) and given what we see here even if Cannonlake (10-nanometer die shrink and final uses of Kaby lake microarchitecture) does provide 15% increase, I'd say AMD still has plenty of revision oomph still in this design. Being Intel is at least a year away AMD has a good chase to counter. For the time being the marketing side is all "hand on deck" to counter this direct hit and minimalize what we see in B-M and maintain their long price/monopoly strategy.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

All I know is my FX-8350 at stock gets roughly 575 in Cinebench R15 and I know it is holding my GTX 1070 from reaching full potential in gaming at the 1440p I play at. Right now AMD is looking like the best bang for your buck to me for things outside of gaming and doesn't look like it will hinder my gaming like I am dealing with now. For me, that's win win.

If Intel wants to do some price shifting after benchmarks come out, I will need to re-evaluate.

 

[simlariver]

Suppressed is a odd take... Though it has in many ways surpassed Intel (for the next year) and given what we see here even if Cannonlake (10-nanometer die shrink and final uses of Kaby lake microarchitecture) does provide 15% increase, I'd say AMD still has plenty of revision oomph still in this design. Being Intel is at least a year away AMD has a good chase to counter. For the time being the marketing side is all "hand on deck" to counter this direct hit and minimalize what we see in B-M and maintain their long price/monopoly strategy.

Cannonlake will be using 14nm+ lythography, same as KabyLake. Considering that the architecture will be the same again; no IPC gains will be seen.
Then when CoffeeLake will finally be here with 10nm, the architecture will also be the same (new core + die shrink at the same time is a no-no).

Nope, Intel made no mention of their 10nm Cannonlake chips when talking about their next-generation CPUs, instead essentially confirmed they've utterly given up on both their yearly tick-tock and process>architecture>optimisation cadences by sticking to the 14nm lithography for the 8th Gen Core architecture.

Due to low 10 nm yields, Cannon Lake will be limited to 15 Watt U and 5.2 Watt Y system-on-chip parts with GT2. Higher power mobile and desktop platforms will receive an update in the form of a 2nd 14 nm process refinement, Coffee Lake, that is said to share Cannon Lake's architectural refinements.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Impressive, but seems no where close to breaking a world record or surpassing a 2679 V4? The 32-core Naples might, though.

I think the category is limited to desktop class CPU's only. That Naples is a server chip.

 

[Lightofhonor]

Just pre-ordered the 1700x over at Newegg. Looks like all of them are live there now.

 

[thesmokingman]

It's kinda hilarious, quad channel memory... They're making the industry turn by forcing quad memory on ppl in that class of chip/board. Yet its been shown that you can get by and sometimes faster too with dual. Hmm, kinda makes ya think don't it?

 

[YautjaLord]

April 2nd for me or even later, til mobos & R7 1800X become available in Israel - a) still f**kload of time to wait for, which is annoying, but, b) will have enough for both mobo (ASUS's preferably, unless they won't have anything that counters & surpasses ASRock's Fatality X370 Prof. Gaming) & 1800X. Who's gonna review the beasts? bta? Raevenlord?

 

[Hotobu]

Just pre-ordered the 1700x over at Newegg. Looks like all of them are live there now.

Your choice, but I wouldn't pre-order. I seriously doubt there will be a shortage, official benchmarks are not out, and you still have to figure out which motherboard to get.

 

[mroofie]

It's a shame modern video games are shite and there's no point in upgrading your CPU/GPU any more.

Indeed

 

[mroofie]

Why is that worrying at all?

Bigger power consumption (heat maybe?)
One must not forget the FX 9 series

I preordered a 1700X at Microcenter required $0 down however they don't have motherboards on their website yet.

required $0 down wuttt...

 

[v12dock]

I preordered a 1700X at Microcenter required $0 down however they don't have motherboards on their website yet.

 

[medi01]

Considering that some of the demo PCs used engineering samples, AMD likely doesn't have that many chips available for sales.

April 2nd for me or even later, til mobos & R7 1800X become available in Israel - a) still f**kload of time to wait for, which is annoying, but, b) will have enough for both mobo (ASUS's preferably, unless they won't have anything that counters & surpasses ASRock's Fatality X370 Prof. Gaming) & 1800X. Who's gonna review the beasts? bta? Raevenlord?

Why, are they using camels to deliver them?

 

[Lightofhonor]

Your choice, but I wouldn't pre-order. I seriously doubt there will be a shortage, official benchmarks are not out, and you still have to figure out which motherboard to get.

Eh. Worst case scenario I send it back, but I need a new computer anyway. A lot of motherboards listed there too, although most say sold-out.

 

[TheGuruStud]

Your choice, but I wouldn't pre-order. I seriously doubt there will be a shortage, official benchmarks are not out, and you still have to figure out which motherboard to get.

I'm grabbing the cheap CPU/MB combo from microcenter.

 

[Jhelms]

Loving the looks of the ASRock AB350M Pro 4 micro ATX. The lil guy has 2qty of M.2 slots - NICE. Judging by the low cost of the X370 boards, this should come in at a great price. Perfect for my next low power, compact system. Should be a great match for the 1700. You can find the board buried in this link.

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-am4-motherboard-round-up-msi-gigabyte-asrock-asus-x370/

 

[TheGuruStud]

Loving the looks of the ASRock AB350M micro ATX. The lil guy has 2qty of M.2 slots - NICE. Judging by the low cost of the X370 boards, this should come in at a great price. Perfect for my next low power, compact system. Should be a great match for the 1700. You can find the board buried in this link.

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-am4-motherboard-round-up-msi-gigabyte-asrock-asus-x370/

Unfortunately, I believe they're only 2x. That's not an issue for current NVMe as they max out around 2GB/s sequential read, but you may be limited with future drives. Overall, not a big deal to me. I doubt many are going to be buying the really expensive NVMe drives.

 

[HammerON]

I am anxious to see true reviews on these CPUs. I do like the pricing

 

[neatfeatguy]

I'm not even purchasing one of these CPUs (no reason to at the moment....plus, no monies) and I'm excited to see AMD releasing something that appears to be very competitive with what Intel has to offer. This is exciting!

I can't wait for NDA to lift. I want to see some real world performance. I'm hoping to have something to look forward to in a couple years when I do upgrade my computer.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

It's a shame modern video games are shite and there's no point in upgrading your CPU/GPU any more.

There is definitely a reason to upgrade GPUs. CPUs maybe a lot less often.

 

[Jhelms]

Unfortunately, I believe they're only 2x. That's not an issue for current NVMe as they max out around 2GB/s sequential read, but you may be limited with future drives. Overall, not a big deal to me. I doubt many are going to be buying the really expensive NVMe drives.

The top header shows Ultra M.2 which per current ASRock literature, that means 32Gb/s. However the 2nd slot does not specify. Since it is next to the sata ports, I assume slow. Look forward to the details! Their timing works great for me so I will take the leap. Due for a new build.

 

[TRWOV]

So it's official; affordable, well-performing octa cores are a thing. Time to prep for a new installation, I guess.

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.

Remember that 1700X has a higher base clock so it's a binned chip more likely and would overclock more. That being said I will probably buy the 1700 too, that price is just golden.