AMD's Ryzen CPUs Shipping Date Surfaces; Mark Your Calendars for February 28th

[Foobario]

Who cares if it is out 2/28 or 3/5?

With the die size advantage of Ryzen (without iGPU) 44mm2 vs. Intel's 170mm2 + (with iGPU), AMD will clean Intel's clock should they decide they want to start a price war.

Right now Intel is scurrying to start producing dies without iGPUs in a desperate attempt to remain competitive.

Even with the crappy yields that AMD will have initially, they will still probably have cost parity with Intel, at least. By the end of April, when yields improve at GLOFO and Samsung, Intel will be at a cost disadvantage should they not dump millions into redesigning their wafers to produce dies without integrated graphics. Even then, their die size will be 10% bigger than Ryzen that will put them close to cost parity since AMD still has to pay a foundry markup.

 

[ratirt]

Oh boy. I'm ready for AMD again. It's been way to long with Intel. I only hope if Ryzen+ or even Ryzen2 show up I would be able to upgrade my rig with the AM4 socket. Normally intel would release different socket so upgrading would be impossible. Hope AMD shows some heart and good will in that matter

 

[londiste]

With the die size advantage of Ryzen (without iGPU) 44mm2 vs. Intel's 170mm2 + (with iGPU), AMD will clean Intel's clock should they decide they want to start a price war.

the idea is correct but the numbers don't match up all too well.

4c8t skylake/kabylake are around 125mm2. ~55mm2 of that is the igpu. memory controller and other support logic is ~20mm2. that leaves core and caches at around ~50mm2, matching quite nicely to that slide that put competitor a's cores size to 49mm2.

theoretically, assuming similar 20mm2-ish die cost for memory controller and other support logic, ryzen could end up being 65mm2. we will have to wait and see what the actual size is.

 

[Caring1]

... cock seems a little too much from what we've seen....

 

[BorgOvermind]

Can't wait!

My last AMD system was on a DFI LanParty board, oh memories...

I still have a DFI and Abit-based stations alive and working.

I did switch to a notebook, but my main ex-gaming now-storage system has ABIT with Radeon 5870 and good old RAIDed WD 2TB blacks. Still works flawlessly.

I miss good quality MBs like DFI and ABIT. Now-days most are junk. Hate to say it, but I have no trust in any MB brand today. I've seen too many of any of them fail too often.

 

[WaroDaBeast]

BOOOOOY, can't wait!!!

I still have a DFI and Abit-based stations alive and working.

I did switch to a notebook, but my main ex-gaming now-storage system has ABIT with Radeon 5870 and good old RAIDed WD 2TB blacks. Still works flawlessly.

I miss good quality MBs like DFI and ABIT. Now-days most are junk. Hate to say it, but I have no trust in any MB brand today. I've seen too many of any of them fail too often.

DFI? Maybe up to nForce 4... I had an nForce 590 DFI mothboard, and boy, that thing was the most unstable and prone to heat board that I've seen so far (in that price range, I mean). I guess I jumped on the DFI bandwagon too late back then (was in 2007.)

 

[Gasaraki]

And the performace will rise when temperature is cold enough I believe

If you NN that bitch, i'll automatically go to 6.0GHz!

 

[rtwjunkie]

And seriously @Raevenlord get yourself an avatar.

Very nice!!!!

 

[Gasaraki]

That's it, i'm getting off this stupid hype train. This hype train is fueled by these stupid posts and i want to be off before it crashes and burns.

 

[cyrand]

My last AMD goes way back also. It was on a ASUS A8V DELUXE 939 VIA K8T800 Pro. I still have that thing in a closest some where. Last time I checked it still boots but it been a few years now since last time I checked. I keep it around for the rare case I would need windows xp for something.

 

[radrok]

BOOOOOY, can't wait!!!



DFI? Maybe up to nForce 4... I had an nForce 590 DFI mothboard, and boy, that thing was the most unstable and prone to heat board that I've seen so far (in that price range, I mean). I guess I jumped on the DFI bandwagon too late back then (was in 2007.)

Yes it was nForce 4

 

[ADHDGAMING]

"(4.2 GHz base cock seems a little too much from what we've seen from the chip, but then again, we don't have any indication as to whether this is an 8-core, 16-thread or a 4-core, 8-thread part, so that should also be taken into account on our "theorycrafting")"


4.2 GHz base whaat???

4.2 base Cuck lol

 

[Slizzo]

My last AMD goes way back also. It was on a ASUS A8V DELUXE 939 VIA K8T800 Pro. I still have that thing in a closest some where. Last time I checked it still boots but it been a few years now since last time I checked. I keep it around for the rare case I would need windows xp for something.

That was a good board.