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oh I just sat through over three hours

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of AMD presentations and what do I have to show

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for it well we know it'll be available starting 2:22 2017 which is today and

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that performance will be competitive with Intel's core i7 lineup but as we've

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been saying for so long that means nothing if it's priced the same so is it

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well as it stands today AMD ryzen looks

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poised to deliver top shelf performance

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and do so at an incredibly disruptive

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price so let's have a closer

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look

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so we'll start by talking about the lineup all the general stuff we confirmed back at CES is still true dual

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Channel memory overclockable across the board assuming you've got a motherboard

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chipset that supports it and 24 PCIe Lanes but we have a ton more details now

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so at the top of the product stack is the ryzen 7

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1800x this is an 8 core 16 thread

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processor okay that we knew before but now we know clock speeds it runs at 3.6

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to 4 GHz though it'll actually boost up

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to 4.1 with what they're calling xfr or

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extended frequency range assuming you've got the cooling horses for it and it is

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coming in at a tiny well okay it's still

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expensive but $4.99 AMD is positioning this a 95 wat

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500 part up against Intel's 130 wat

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$1,000 6900k though as usual the

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top-of-the-line part isn't necessarily the most compelling and things get even

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more interesting as we work our way down the stack so behind me here is the 1700

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x it still gets the X for like X Factor

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so it's a 95 watt part you should expect better overclocking out of it compared

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to a non-x part and it still features their extended frequency range so it

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runs from 3.4 to 3.8 or 3.9 with

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appropriate cooling it's still got eight cores it's still got 16 threads and it

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does all of this priced at $3.99 which

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puts it competitive with the

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6800k which is actually the demo that they have behind

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us before we do the demos we've got to introduce the good

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member of this good better best product stack this is the ryzen

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7700 this guy is a little bit unique you

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still get eight cores you still get 16 threads but now we're talking

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significantly lower clock speeds 3 GHz

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base up to 3.7 GHz boost and you get a

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significantly lower TDP 65 Watts making

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this the lowest rated 8 core desktop

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processor on the market and you will be doing this

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at a slightly lower price $329 compared

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to a 7700k so that would be a quad core eight

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thread processor that it's going up against but come on lonus enough

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spreadsheets show us show us so uh they

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gave us access to their cine bench demo unsupervised which was unwise of them

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let's go ahead and run that while I explain what's going on behind me so we

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have a ryzen 7 1800x remember that's the topof the line one $499 with 16 gigs of

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RAM on some validation board then over

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on the other side they've got the hardware right here we can see it we've

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got a 6900k running with 32 gigs of

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Corsair Dominator platinum on an ASUS Rog board so they really couldn't give

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it much more of an advantage and then we're running cin bench with

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multi-threading enabled and the results are in so right here here's the

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6900k can actually see okay nothing's

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disabled 1479 and over here is the ryzen 7 Zedd

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3601 B it's an engineering sample but

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whatever what it's a ryzen 7 1800

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x600 marks at half the price now

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obviously this isn't the whole story when it comes to CPU performance but it

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is definitely an impressive demo though not as impressive as this one I'm going

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to press this big red button which has been beckoning at me since I pressed it

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five minutes ago and I'm starting what AMD is calling

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their megat tasking demo which is a

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combination of blender and handbreak designed to test the multitasking of

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these CPUs although I believe megat tasking was like an AMD TM thing that

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they were using back when they were marketing I think it was Tri cores or

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six cores or something like that against Intel's quad cores and dual cores anyway

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all that's ancient history at this point the point of the demo is that we are

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timing how long it takes to run this octane demo and this hand breing code

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that you can see here is running in the background on these two systems so

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they've put the 1700x remember this is the 399 8 core 16 thread up against

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Intel's core i7 6800k once again the systems are similar

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though AMD has for whatever reason kneecapped themselves with 16 gigs of

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ddr4 versus Intel's 32 gigs of

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ddr4 and now I just have an awful lot of

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time to kill so I will use this opportunity to talk about how they have

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a lot of cool systems here on display from all of their Partners this could be

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one of the most complete AMD ecosystem launches that that we have ever seen I

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think they're saying something along the lines of 82 motherboards available at

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launch with more to come and I think it 18 system integrators that are going to

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have systems ready to go at launch it seems like there's a lot of confidence

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in the am4 platform while the AMD

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system's done maybe we could just like time lapse

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through this so people know we aren't faking it there we go okay so 91.6

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seconds versus 112.1 seconds I mean none of this should

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be that surprising from a Pure

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Performance numbers stand point I mean we're looking at an 8 core 16 thread

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processor versus a 6 core 12 thread

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processor but AMD is not designing this test to be fair in terms of core count

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to core count they're designing it around pricing this chip on the right

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costs less than this chip on the left

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really yeah wait

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oh you were in the same presentation I was leading us finally to what may be

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the most disruptive skew of all the 1700

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so this one is as I said before $329

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putting it around the same price as a 7700k and you can see right here they've

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got two demo systems running again side by side with a ryzen 7 17008 core and a

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core i7 7700k and they're playing Dota 2 while

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streaming using obs at the same settings

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they really let us get a lot closer to the demos here so we're able to validate

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all of this stuff ourselves and demonstrating how and I had been asking

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for this for many generations why is the mainstream still limited to quad core so

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they're showing us how more cores can benefit a multi-threaded workload even

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for gamers so the core i77700k stream drops frames while the

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1700 stream does not

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this last demo Battlefield 1 at 4K is actually one we've seen before sort of

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we've had some of the blanks filled in this time so we already knew that ryzen

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unnamed was up against a 6800k with ddr4 memory and dual Titan

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XPS and SLI but what we didn't know was exactly what that ryzen chip was or what

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speed it was running at so now we know it is actually their lowest tier ryzen

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7700 that's the 65 watt part

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and we know that it runs at anywhere from 3 GHz to 3.7 GHz in this case it's

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running at about 3.65 which might tell

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us something interesting about the granularity of the way that ryzen

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boosts anyway back to the game the other

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key difference between then and now is that AMD has their boost technology

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working so while at CES frame rates were

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the same to within a frame or three now here we are looking at EX exactly the

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same starting scene driving our tank exactly the same way and ryzen 7700 has

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a clear performance advantage and a

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significant one now to be fair AMD is picking their battle somewhat here they

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could have put it up against the much more similarly priced

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7700k which due to its higher frequency

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is in most cases a better gaming CPU than a COR i7

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6800k but there's no denying here that

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there's a compelling value case to be made for this chip that outperforms a

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6800k at about $100 less so all that's

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fine in good line is this is the kind of CPU that we can have 4.8 billion

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transistors 2 kilometers of signal wiring if we're not concerned about

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putting Graphics processors inside them

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but you've left out the most important part does it have RGB and the answer is

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yes you are looking at an RGB AMD St

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