on July 29th 2017 AMD held their Tech
day for two of the most exciting products to come out of the company in
years ryzen Threadripper and RX Vega
now obviously I wasn't able to be at the tech day because I was busy with the
rest of my team hosting our first ever LTX Tech Carnival but AMD provided me
the briefing materials and Alienware sent over this area 51 so that I could
show off both both AMD's top-of-the-line
1950x 16 core 32 thread processor and a
prototype of the RX Vega 64 limited
edition from this park
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video description let's start with Vega the
bulk of graphics cards actually sell for
under $300 but that doesn't mean that there's
no value to having an Enthusiast offering enthusiasts recommend Hardware
to their less enthusiastic friends so if
you're AMD every RX Vega you sell might
sell a 560 or three so to compete in
this space AMD says they went back to the drawing board on a lot of things a
brand new pixel engine brand new geometry engine support for Rapid packed
math to accelerate the rendering of objects that don't benefit from higher
precision and 8 gigs of state-of-the-art
hbm2 memory with up to an unbelievable
484 gab per second of bandwidth the
entry level card called Vega 56 contains
only 56 of their next gen compute unit
versus 64 in the higher end SKS it's air
cooled consumes about 150 watts
according to rumors full benchmarks will follow when the review embargo lifts and
seems to be positioned against the GTX 1070 at 3.99 Standalone while the top
tier Vega 64 is available in two configurations an aircooled version at
1546 MHz boost and up to a rumored 300
watts and a water cooled one at 1677
boost and I hope this isn't right up to
400 watts of power consumption as for
pricing for this one it gets a little complicated out of the gate AMD is
offering what they're calling radon packs so two games that vary by region
the Germany version might contain prey and Sniper Elite rather than Wolfenstein
2 for example $200 off of an ultrawide
Samsung freesync Monitor and $100 off a
ryzen 7 CPU and motherboard combo AMD is
touting this as up to $420 of value and it seems like it's
adding about $100 to the price that you
pay based on the entry level pack with Vega
56 and I guess all I can say is I hope
that you the consumer think that's a good deal because at launch while this
limited edition brushed metal shroud is available it's likely that the only way
you'll be able to buy a Vega 64 is with
a bundle this annoying restriction appears
to be an attempt to ship cards to Gamers
rather than just wiping out all their inventory to coin miners so at least I
can see that AMD's heart is in the right place but I'd like to hear what you guys
in the comments think about that on to
ryzen Threadripper this one is both simpler and more complicated in some
ways it's simple because we have a pretty good idea of what to expect based
on the specs the 1950x is a 16 core 32
thread 3.4 GHz based 4 GHz boost quad
Channel ddr4 monster so given that we're
already familiar with single-threaded Zen performance at a given frequency and
Zen multi-core scaling across CCX units
the only real question mark left is how the quad Channel memory enabled by AMD's
use of four CCX instead of two will
affect Zen performance and if I had to guess I'd say that's going to be a
really good thing now it's complicated
because it's hard to assign value to
these high-end desktop Parts in traditional ways at $1,000 the 1950x is
not a great value for gaming in the sense that an overclocked ryzen 5 for a
fraction of the cost will perform very similarly or even better but from a
Content creation data science and meat
tasking perspective it's a total GameChanger and its pricing is a big
part of that story over the last couple of generations Intel has inched up the
pricing of its Flagship consumer processors in an apparent attempt to
avoid cannibalizing the lucrative Zeon lineup and AMD says Nope
they're launching two other chips here the 1920x is a 12 core variant with
similar clock speeds but that one's not
that interesting to me I think an extra 200 bucks for four more cores is a great
deal by the time you're dropping fat stacks of money on an x399 motherboard
and a cooler that's going to have to handle a
rumored 180 wat and they're also
launching an 8 core 1900x
this one is actually more interesting to me because even though it has the same
core count as a ryzen 7 if you're
building a workstation or compute box you might not need a ton of CPU and 550
bucks is a phenomenal value for the quad
Channel memory controller and more importantly 64 PCI Express Lanes enough
to run pretty much as many gpus as you want without running into band WID
limits so in summary then to Gamers unless you're hardcore into CPU encoding
your Twitch streams while you play which we will be testing in our full review
it's not too relevant but to folks like me ryzen Threadripper looks like a game
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