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things i just love about the computer industry is the naming conventions you
can put your ek predator cooler inside your acer predator desktop one of the
best gpus on the market shares a name with the world's most mundane display
resolution and the industry as a whole has more references to force than the
entire expanded universe so then it was a huge surprise to
no one when AMD continued this proud tradition of uncreative naming by
designating their lineup of new ryzen cpus as ryzen 3 5 and 7.
the same numbers that team blue started
using all those years ago but
to AMD's credit they've gone a different direction with what those numbers
actually mean starting at the bottom we've got ryzen 3
though i would hardly call this bottom low end every ryzen 3 chip comes with 4
cores and 4 threads similar to an Intel
core i5 a 65 watt TDP means that the small
included wraith stealth heatsink that looks somewhat similar to an Intel stock
solution should do you nicely if you're not interested in overclocking a ryzen 3
will run you between 109 and 129 dollars
depending on exactly which model you choose stepping up we've got ryzen 5 which has
both 4 core 8 thread and 6 core 12 thread models positioning them
actually against mainstream grade core i7s except at the very high end so that
one is simple enough but the cooler situation here is a
little confusing the lowest end 1400
gets the same stealth cooler as before
then the other chips get the beefier wraith spire except for the top end six
core 1600x which has no bundled cooler
at all and a higher 95 watt TDP
so ryzen 5 will run you between 169 and
189 for 4 cores or 219 to 249 if you
want something with six at the top of the mainstream stack is the ryzen 7
lineup all of which are 8 core 16 thread
affairs again here you'll see tdps between 65
and 95 watts and only the lowest end
non-x ryzen 7 1700 includes aspire led
cooler though with that said i'd expect many of the folks buying the top tier
ones to want high performance after market cooling anyway if you pull the
trigger on a ryzen 7 expect to pay between 329 and 499 dollars but wait
there's more that's not the end of it for the first time in a decade AMD is
finally competing on the super high end as well with a product called ryzen
threadripper this dramatically named processor is
based on their server lineup and comes in 8 12 and 16 core variants all with
simultaneous multi-threading and 64 pci
express lanes these puppies produce copious amounts of
heat you will need to provide your own excellent cooler the cpus are physically
massive with over 4 000 lga style
contacts and with pricing from 549 to 999 they are
expensive though it's still cheaper than
Intel's closest equivalents so then which one should you choose if you're
interested well believe it or not if you won't be doing anything more demanding
than gaming ryzen 3 is probably an
excellent bet as there are hardly any games out there today that can
substantially take advantage of more than four cores though with that said
the extra threads and cores of a ryzen 5
might make sense for you if you're a light content creator or a game streamer
if you're a content creator who's doing more heavy lifting such as video editing
a higher end ryzen 5 or a ryzen 7 is a
great bet for you as for the super deluxe Threadripper
well that one makes sense if you need high-speed quad channel memory tons of
cores for virtualization and pci express
lanes out the wazoo for GPU compute uh
high-end networking or like crazy storage setups
regardless of what chip you pick though there are a few things to know well two
one every ryzen skew is unlocked and
overclockable out of the box so you won't be paying an Intel style premium
just to tweak the multiplier in your BIOS and two
ryzen isn't quite as strong in applications like games that skew more
heavily towards single core performance due to its lower per clock performance
compared to Intel however many tests
have shown that ryzen is a suitable performer in many of those applications
and actually a better value for multi-threaded applications so if you're
spending a lot of time in adobe premiere or streaming in hd you might be
pleasantly surprised so let us know in the comments then have
you taken the Ryzen plunge yet what are your thoughts so far and if you have
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