Some good early info before reviews are allowed to go out from both Anand and Pcp http://www.anandtech.com/show/11143...or-under-330-preorder-today-on-sale-march-2nd https://www.pcper.com/news/Processo...r-Starts-Today-Specs-and-Performance-Revealed Pre-orders go up today, and reviews will come in a few more days once NDA lifts. It looks like it will be a great processors for people doing streaming and video encoding tasks who want 12+ processing threads on a budget, or the lower end processors for people just wanting a gaming computer on a budget. Doesnt seem like it beats a 7700K in all out gaming performance though. The die shot is purdy though For those of you who dont know how to look at a die shot and see whats what, I labeled it the best I could: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzZHFo1uaCLYejNfUDZTUjl3bG8/view
This is a huge boon to the medium/high computing market. Just on price/performance point alone. That vast majority of people weren't purchasing at Intel's top end and you basically increased all of that market share to 8 cores/16 threads. I can't imagine Intel not following suit in the future to match what AMD is offering. For most people who haven't had a recent Intel chip; this will be the step you will likely want to take. As for me, I have a 6700k so I'll be fine for quite awhile and see how the market plays out. I might build a Ryzen for my wife.
The new Ryzen 7 lineup sure seems like it will shake things up for Intel and the market as a whole. It was about time we moved on from the 4c/8t hiatus that we've had for such a long time in the "enthusiast" lineup. Buuuut, with that said and done, I'm more interested to see if AMD will come out with something like a 6c/12t or 4c/8t for their under 200$ ryzen 5 lineup. Now THAT would really give Intel a run for it's money. The 4c i5s have been very lacking to say the least. Also, a 4c(a decent IPC one) for under 100$ would also blow Intel's Pentium and i3 CPUs away. But, as this is more of a "catch up" from AMD's side, I don't see people with modern i7s going out and buying new systems. My 4790k barely breaks a sweat with most of my workloads. I'll consider an upgrade by the time Intel puts out a new generation to answer Zen and maybe Zen 2.0 or something.
Well, at least we'll have 8 threads, that's something. Although I'm surprised there isn't any sub 100$ CPU in the lineup. I was expecting a quad core CPU to just completely obliterate any market share Intel's 2c/4t Pentium.
Reviews are out. As usual Anand is my favorite because of how in depth they go on the hardware level stuff: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11170...-7-review-a-deep-dive-on-1800x-1700x-and-1700 I also nailed the die layout from my first post
The Benchmarks are out, Ryzen gets killed by the Intel chips in games PC Gamer (Benchmarks start on page 4): http://www.pcgamer.com/the-amd-ryzen-7-review/ Ars Technica (Benchmarks in the middle of the page) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/03/amd-ryzen-review/ Ars Technica had a BSOD with the Ryzen trying to update Windows 10 too, they mentioned that its not fully stable yet.
Ryzen 1800X is more expensive than a 7700k, yet gaming performance is on par according to AMD's official benchmarks. Doesn't make sense to me.
These processors are meant to compete more against Intel's HEDT platform, not the mainstream. All the "-E" stuff. 1800x vs 6900K, 1700X vs 6800K. In these comparisons of Ryzen vs Intels high end platform it competes extremely well, only behind in total performance by a pretty small amount, yet costs a good bit less. It is the lower end 4 cores I am worried about more so, it seems they dont really have a place except to compete with Intel's mainstream platform. And in that competition they lose because the price is the same or higher, yet performance is less. Perhaps performance will be better though once proper drivers come out. Right now a Windows issue is causing performance in games to drop substantially when SMT is turned on.