5 years ago I stood on this very Street and I told you guys how much I loved
AMD's roadmap if it hadn't been such an ethical issue I would have bought their
stock obviously that wasn't Financial advice and it still isn't but man did I
ever nail it because the hits keep coming and it's all at Intel's expense
there are a lot of reasons to be excited about the new CPUs that AMD just
announced but I'm not here to just talk
about that because there are also reasons to we only cautiously
enthusiastic so let's talk about that but first this enthusiastic segue to our
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options who wants 16% more performance
for reportedly the same price yeah me
too and that's what AMD is claiming to deliver with the ryzen 9 950x
considering that there's no bumping boost clocks or cash and their base
clocks are actually a little bit lower that is a very respectable result and
enough to absolutely blow the doors off of Intel's consumer Flagship The Core i
94900 k now these are AMD's Z numbers
and you should take them with a sodium tablet until we get a chance to run them
through the lab but the performance leader is rarely the one that's going to
be caught stretching the truth and there is no doubt that the performance leader
right now is AMD unfortunately that's
all AMD gave us as far as performance numbers go they are not sharing
benchmarks for the rest of the 9000 Series lineup though they did give us
specs for the ryzen 5 and the ryzen 7 that would indicate a similar
performance uplift over last gen with a
reduction in heat and power consumption
to go along with the performance D until
that's sicker burn than you'll get from a core I9 it gets even better for the
gamers out there precedent suggests that the five and the Seven class chips are
going to be single CCD SKS making them the goto for minmaxer gamers that is at
least until we get an x3d variant which AMD hasn't announced at this
time the most exciting part for me though is what's not new while AMD has
been hard at work on a new motherboard chipet to launch alongside these CPUs
it's going to be on the same am5 socket that we've come to know and they've
recommitted to their long-term relationship confirming support for am5
until at least 2027 this is such great news if you
already have a 600 series board you've
got to love just drop in performance
upgrades but with how strong some of
these new boards look I suspect some people are going to be tempted to
upgrade anyway
for one thing USB 4.0 is now standard on
all x870 and x870 or extreme
motherboards which means Thunderbolt 3 capability which is an optional part of
USB 4 may become more common on AMD and
the same goes for PCI Express Gen 5 which is now on all x800 series chipsets
for both the GPU and for NVMe storage
though how many ports are required to be Gen 5 remains to be seen PCIe Gen 5 has
double the bandwidth of Gen 4 which while we aren't likely to actually use
it to its full potential today means that devices can use fewer lanes for the
same performance level that's going to pair nicely with the higher speed Expo
certified memory kits that AMD is promising for this generation but wait
there's even more am4 users are getting
new Chips that's right the ryzen 9 5900
XT and ryzen 7 5800 XT are coming to
give you a nice little performance boost for your older system this puts am4
users on par with the 13700 K and the 13600 K respectively all of which is
pretty great but is anyone else feeling like something's missing like look over
the spec tables again it's going to be kind of familiar maximum of 16 cores
same boost clock same cash mostly the same TDP yeah IPC is up or instructions
per clock so we're going to get more performance but does this feel a little
bit like the Habit that Intel got stuck in during the years between the 2000
series and 7,000 Series where each generation gave us modest speed
increases or IPC increases and not much else I mean to be clear up to 16 cores
is great compared to where Intel left us with four but there's something much
more important missing here ryzen 3 I
mean AMD strategy of selling their last gen product for a discount is an okay
option for gamers and enthus and certainly AMD's pocketbook I mean you
can't blame them for wanting to get the most possible back on their R&D
investment but it just stings a little knowing that unless you're one of their
most affluent customers you're not going to be able to take advantage of the IPC
and the power efficiency gains on this
generation at least not if things keep going the way they are so I guess I've
got a bit of a challenge for AMD guys it's easy to be the hero for Budget
Gamers when your products aren't good enough for you to charge more but can
you be better than Intel now that you're the ones on top cuz it really doesn't
seem like it at the moment case in point the top end first gen Threadripper
launched at $999 now even the cheapest one costs
more than 1,400 that is where performance
leadership has gotten AMD and it smells like complacency I hope it's not the
case but I'm starting to feel like we need Intel to step up their game to keep
AMD motivated to deliver better products for gamers rather than the other way
around changing gear somewhat abruptly AMD also announced their ryzen AI 300
series so Windows 11 recall is coming to
x86 so woo sorry that was about as enthusiastic
as I could pretend to be about that with 50 tops of neural processing compute
these new chips are capable of the newest AI features and they were very
clear about this they are doing it without emulation a roundabout
acknowledgement that ARM might be more competitive on Windows than they might
have hoped they also made bold performance claims about General non AI
Computing performance saying that they could beat Apple silicon M3 in many
workloads though it's tough to make an Apples to Apples comparison there and
then against Intel I'm not even sure they see core
Ultra as a competitor especially against anything that utilizes AMD's Radeon 800
series integrated gpus AI or not AMD
looks like they may be the better option for performance battery life and
thermals as long as you don't mind paying the AMD tax through the grape
vine I've heard that pricing for these upcoming stricks mobile chips is going
to be pretty friendly that is to AMD's
shareholders in other good news for those folks AMD unveiled their epic
Turin lineup which seems destined to capture even more market share from
Intel's Bel leaguered data center division just like its predecessors did
it boasts up to a truly daggering 192
cores and 384 threads on a single CPU
and while they didn't show any specific performance numbers for that particular
CPU in the teaser AMD is claiming a 2 and2 to 5.4 times performance lead over
Intel's Emerald rapid xeons depending on the workload I mean it's kind of a
foregone conclusion that you're going to win when you have twice as many corses
the competition but still impressive nonetheless seems like Intel's main
selling point for the data center product seems to come down to
manufacturing capacity at this point unless they've got an ace up their
sleeves that uh I don't know about all
of these new products are going to be hitting shelves starting in July which is very exciting news for AMD's
customers but in spite of that I'm not going to be making the same bold
statement predicting that their stock with Skyrocket that I did 5 years ago
while they have somewhat ridden the wave of AI excitement and may continue to do
so I mean they did announce new GPU products as well as a one-year Cadence
for AI processor refreshes I just don't
know if I believe that they can close the gap against NVIDIA though I do hope
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