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So today, AMD finally officially launched their long awaited Ryzen CPUs, starting with the 3 SKUs from the R7 lineup. Apart from boasting a 52% IPC increase over their previous generation Bulldozer/Piledriver architecture. The R7 CPU's boast 8 cores and 16 threads with an unlocked multiplier and a TDP as high as 95W for the R7 1800X and 1700X, with the R7 1700 being the black sheep of the group, with 65W. The pricing of the R7 lineup starts from $329 for the R7 1700, R7 1700X at $399 and $499 for the top dog R7 1800X. AMD hopes to take on the likes of the i7 7700K, 6800K and the 6900K with the respective processors. Pre-orders from major retailers today at 1pm EST, ready for a general hard launch on March 2nd.

AMD also plans to release their R5 and R3 CPU lineups to compete with the Intel i5 and i3 in the mid and lower range sector. However, no official date has been disclosed.

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  • Ryzen 7 1800X: 8C/16T, 3.6 GHz base, 4.0 GHz turbo, 95W, $499
  • Ryzen 7 1700X: 8C/16T, 3.4 GHz base, 3.8 GHz turbo, 95W, $399
  • Ryzen 7 1700: 8C/16T, 3.0 GHz base, 3.7 GHz turbo, 65W, $329

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Images courtesy: Ian Cutress (Anandtech)
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bye bye intel

 

[DarkFlare69]

I want a Nintendo Switch, an RX 480, and now one of these. Too much money... FX 8320 is working fine I guess

 

[osaka35]

I think I will start having a serious look at building some real PC around Ryzen 1700X + RX480.
That combo looks really cheap and good performing. (I might even get down to 1700, it seems to perform good enough already).
Hell, I haven't build a PC in almost ten years, but this looks good.
I'll be waiting for real benchmarks....

the rx500 series should be coming out 3rd or 4th quarter of this year, with double the TFLOPs of the rx 480, apparently. or 4x the FP16 tflops? You know AMD and their tendency to oversell their products. Dunno, might be worth the wait

 

[leon315]

Nhaaaa, just finished building my new beast: 6700k+gtx1070 , Intel rulez

Edit: I7 6700k 4ghz - - 4,2 turbo and costs 330 euro, in conclusion nice try, amd

 

[GamerzHell9137]

Overclockers uk (big uk retailer) have them & am4 motherboards up for pre-order now for those in the UK looking.

1700 is £320, which is slightly cheaper than the 7700K. Price is basically a direct coversion from $330 + vat before anyone starts crying about being "ripped off".

Assuming it lives up to it's billing when proper independent reviews start coming in, that's good. My 5820k was £290, £30 more for 2 extra cores and that's after the £ was thrown off a cliff compared to when I bought.

Any mobo that doesn't cost like the price of the CPUs?

 

[Pluupy]

It's been so many years since AMD was in the game I don't remember what it was like when they were neck-and-neck.

 

[raystriker]

Nhaaaa, just finished building my new beast: 6700k+gtx1070 , Intel rulez

Edit: I7 6700k 4ghz - - 4,2 turbo and costs 330 euro, in conclusion nice try, amd

You say that, but deep down you know what's up

 

[Pluupy]

Uh, dude, I'm 31 years old lol, I've used Intel since 2004, never had a single CPU fry, same with NVidia GPUs, never had a single one of theirs fail. I had an AMD Athlon fry on me, and an old ATI/AMD GPU constantly give BSODs on Windows XP. Can't say the same with Intel or NVidia, nothing will convince me to switch lol. *Shrug*

Why would you need to "switch"? I understand the need for a new motherboard due to AMD and Intel architectural differences, but as a consumer the only thing you need to worry about is power and price. Don't play the little kid brand wars game. Be a smart, adult consumer.

 

[leon315]

You say that, but deep down you know what's up

I have no idea about competition between these two giants, so mind you explain it to me?

 

[raystriker]

I have no idea about competition between these two giants, so mind you explain it to me?

Well, AMD was the leader uptil 2008-ish and then Intel came up with the Core iX lineups and kicked AMD's ass for 9 years almost. Uptil now.
Then there's also this- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v._Intel_Corp.
As you see, Intel's not ideal competition.

 

[leon315]

Well, AMD was the leader uptil 2008-ish and then Intel came up with the Core iX lineups and kicked AMD's ass for 9 years almost. Uptil now.
Then there's also this- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v._Intel_Corp.
As you see, Intel's not ideal competition.

I don't care about the companies' history, I wanna know the bench 1800x vs. 6700k

 

[raystriker]

I don't care about the companies' history, I wanna know the bench 1800x vs. 6700k

R7 1800X > i7 6900K
But wait 10 days for official benchmarks by 3rd parties, obviously.

 

[FAST6191]

Are any of the available boards reasonably well featured basically server boards without the warranty and ECC support (hardly a dealbreaker but dual network ports and things like that) or are they stripped down toys like the earlier DDR4 boards? New stuff is fun but so often in recent years have I seen boards I would not have given a second look be touted as the tip top gear out there.

As others said spend enough time wandering through IT and you will have a disdain for every vendor and manufacturer, however something still has to get done so a price*-performance-extent of dicking around tradeoff gets to be made. I am curious to see if AMD are once again to be a viable option for some things.

*given I am writing this on a core2 laptop with 2 gigs of RAM, and that is my main machine, I am probably going to be mainly concerned with price and whether I can tolerate the rest.

 

[Yil]

I have been waiting it for so long only to find it has 24 lanes instead of 36.

 

[raystriker]

I have been waiting it for so long only to find it has 24 lanes instead of 36.

If only we had a graphics card powerful enough to exploit all the bandwidth x16 mode provides

 

[Armadillo]

Are any of the available boards reasonably well featured basically server boards without the warranty and ECC support (hardly a dealbreaker but dual network ports and things like that) or are they stripped down toys like the earlier DDR4 boards? New stuff is fun but so often in recent years have I seen boards I would not have given a second look be touted as the tip top gear out there.

Nope.

AM4 is a consumer/mainstream platform, so all of them just have basically what is expected of a modern board aimed at that sector (m2, usb 3.1 etc).

 

[raystriker]

Nope.

AM4 is a consumer/mainstream platform, so all of them just have basically what is expected of a modern board aimed at that sector (m2, usb 3.1 etc).

Well they do have the Ryzen/Zen Naples platform coming along for Servers

 

[Deleted member 388531]

Already looking at my i5 and thinking,"it's not enough,is it?".

 

[Kioku]

Wonder what the comparison is to my core i7 4790K emulation wise. Would be interesting to know how well dolphin and pcsx2 run on ryzen.

This is a big thing for me as well. Running that same CPU and it handles everything rather well. Wondering if at this point there's going to be a difference among any new gen.

 

[Bladexdsl]

hand over that crown intel

 

[raystriker]

Everyone, TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/56401/amd-breaking-world-records-ryzen-7-1800x-already/index.html