oh I just sat through over three hours
of AMD presentations and what do I have to show
for it well we know it'll be available starting 2:22 2017 which is today and
that performance will be competitive with Intel's core i7 lineup but as we've
been saying for so long that means nothing if it's priced the same so is it
well as it stands today AMD ryzen looks
poised to deliver top shelf performance
and do so at an incredibly disruptive
price so let's have a closer
look
so we'll start by talking about the lineup all the general stuff we confirmed back at CES is still true dual
Channel memory overclockable across the board assuming you've got a motherboard
chipset that supports it and 24 PCIe Lanes but we have a ton more details now
so at the top of the product stack is the ryzen 7
1800x this is an 8 core 16 thread
processor okay that we knew before but now we know clock speeds it runs at 3.6
to 4 GHz though it'll actually boost up
to 4.1 with what they're calling xfr or
extended frequency range assuming you've got the cooling horses for it and it is
coming in at a tiny well okay it's still
expensive but $4.99 AMD is positioning this a 95 wat
500 part up against Intel's 130 wat
$1,000 6900k though as usual the
top-of-the-line part isn't necessarily the most compelling and things get even
more interesting as we work our way down the stack so behind me here is the 1700
x it still gets the X for like X Factor
so it's a 95 watt part you should expect better overclocking out of it compared
to a non-x part and it still features their extended frequency range so it
runs from 3.4 to 3.8 or 3.9 with
appropriate cooling it's still got eight cores it's still got 16 threads and it
does all of this priced at $3.99 which
puts it competitive with the
6800k which is actually the demo that they have behind
us before we do the demos we've got to introduce the good
member of this good better best product stack this is the ryzen
7700 this guy is a little bit unique you
still get eight cores you still get 16 threads but now we're talking
significantly lower clock speeds 3 GHz
base up to 3.7 GHz boost and you get a
significantly lower TDP 65 Watts making
this the lowest rated 8 core desktop
processor on the market and you will be doing this
at a slightly lower price $329 compared
to a 7700k so that would be a quad core eight
thread processor that it's going up against but come on lonus enough
spreadsheets show us show us so uh they
gave us access to their cine bench demo unsupervised which was unwise of them
let's go ahead and run that while I explain what's going on behind me so we
have a ryzen 7 1800x remember that's the topof the line one $499 with 16 gigs of
RAM on some validation board then over
on the other side they've got the hardware right here we can see it we've
got a 6900k running with 32 gigs of
Corsair Dominator platinum on an ASUS Rog board so they really couldn't give
it much more of an advantage and then we're running cin bench with
multi-threading enabled and the results are in so right here here's the
6900k can actually see okay nothing's
disabled 1479 and over here is the ryzen 7 Zedd
3601 B it's an engineering sample but
whatever what it's a ryzen 7 1800
x600 marks at half the price now
obviously this isn't the whole story when it comes to CPU performance but it
is definitely an impressive demo though not as impressive as this one I'm going
to press this big red button which has been beckoning at me since I pressed it
five minutes ago and I'm starting what AMD is calling
their megat tasking demo which is a
combination of blender and handbreak designed to test the multitasking of
these CPUs although I believe megat tasking was like an AMD TM thing that
they were using back when they were marketing I think it was Tri cores or
six cores or something like that against Intel's quad cores and dual cores anyway
all that's ancient history at this point the point of the demo is that we are
timing how long it takes to run this octane demo and this hand breing code
that you can see here is running in the background on these two systems so
they've put the 1700x remember this is the 399 8 core 16 thread up against
Intel's core i7 6800k once again the systems are similar
though AMD has for whatever reason kneecapped themselves with 16 gigs of
ddr4 versus Intel's 32 gigs of
ddr4 and now I just have an awful lot of
time to kill so I will use this opportunity to talk about how they have
a lot of cool systems here on display from all of their Partners this could be
one of the most complete AMD ecosystem launches that that we have ever seen I
think they're saying something along the lines of 82 motherboards available at
launch with more to come and I think it 18 system integrators that are going to
have systems ready to go at launch it seems like there's a lot of confidence
in the am4 platform while the AMD
system's done maybe we could just like time lapse
through this so people know we aren't faking it there we go okay so 91.6
seconds versus 112.1 seconds I mean none of this should
be that surprising from a Pure
Performance numbers stand point I mean we're looking at an 8 core 16 thread
processor versus a 6 core 12 thread
processor but AMD is not designing this test to be fair in terms of core count
to core count they're designing it around pricing this chip on the right
costs less than this chip on the left
really yeah wait
oh you were in the same presentation I was leading us finally to what may be
the most disruptive skew of all the 1700
so this one is as I said before $329
putting it around the same price as a 7700k and you can see right here they've
got two demo systems running again side by side with a ryzen 7 17008 core and a
core i7 7700k and they're playing Dota 2 while
streaming using obs at the same settings
they really let us get a lot closer to the demos here so we're able to validate
all of this stuff ourselves and demonstrating how and I had been asking
for this for many generations why is the mainstream still limited to quad core so
they're showing us how more cores can benefit a multi-threaded workload even
for gamers so the core i77700k stream drops frames while the
1700 stream does not
this last demo Battlefield 1 at 4K is actually one we've seen before sort of
we've had some of the blanks filled in this time so we already knew that ryzen
unnamed was up against a 6800k with ddr4 memory and dual Titan
XPS and SLI but what we didn't know was exactly what that ryzen chip was or what
speed it was running at so now we know it is actually their lowest tier ryzen
7700 that's the 65 watt part
and we know that it runs at anywhere from 3 GHz to 3.7 GHz in this case it's
running at about 3.65 which might tell
us something interesting about the granularity of the way that ryzen
boosts anyway back to the game the other
key difference between then and now is that AMD has their boost technology
working so while at CES frame rates were
the same to within a frame or three now here we are looking at EX exactly the
same starting scene driving our tank exactly the same way and ryzen 7700 has
a clear performance advantage and a
significant one now to be fair AMD is picking their battle somewhat here they
could have put it up against the much more similarly priced
7700k which due to its higher frequency
is in most cases a better gaming CPU than a COR i7
6800k but there's no denying here that
there's a compelling value case to be made for this chip that outperforms a
6800k at about $100 less so all that's
fine in good line is this is the kind of CPU that we can have 4.8 billion
transistors 2 kilometers of signal wiring if we're not concerned about
putting Graphics processors inside them
but you've left out the most important part does it have RGB and the answer is
yes you are looking at an RGB AMD St
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