AMD brought us to the suite here at CES 2017 to prove once and for all that
Ryzen is real. It is physical. It is tangible. You can touch it. Well, you
can't touch it. But but but I could touch it because I'm here if I as long
as I didn't care about like EST shocking it cuz these floors are carpeted. Not
only do they have the couple of systems that I'm going to show you here, but
they actually have systems from over a dozen of their partners. everyone from
PC case gear to
what the devil is this thing? Whatever it is, it's water cooled. It's red. It
looks actually pretty freaking bananas. And the logo is in Chinese, so I'm not
going to try too hard to pronounce that one. Anyway, let's get let's get back over here to the demos here. The systems
in front of me right now are the ones from the AMD live stream about a month
ago. Not they they're not rebuilt the same spec. They are the exact systems
because that demo raised a lot of questions. Did AMD change this? Did they
change that? What clock speeds is it running at? So, we have the answers to a
significant chunk of that speculation
right now. So, this one right here is
running an 8 core 16thread. They let me take the panels off. 8 core 16thread
Ryzen CPU on a validation level
motherboard. So, this is like a reference design. You can't actually buy
this board. They've got dual channel DDR4 memory in here. They're running a
Titan XP because AMD are a bunch of smart folks. They know that RX480 is not
going to prove that this CPU can run with the biggest, fastest GPU on the
market today. They had to put that in there. It is what it is. But the point
is, it's the real deal. Now, we have a
look at this guy. AMD claimed they had a sixtyn00 K, a
thousand processor from Intel running on
legit actual production hardware. Oh, look, that's what it is. So, the demo
that we're looking at right now is Battlefield 1 running on a six-t with a
Titan XP. Otherwise, the same hardware. Yes, the case is different. That does
not really affect the performance very much. If anything, that's an advantage for the Intel system because thanks to
GPU boost, that card will run a little faster if it's cooled better. And right
here we have it. Frame rate counter. Battlefield 1. In one of the early
training missions, they are running damn near identically,
which is pretty unbelievable. And AMD hasn't even showed all their cards yet
because their chip is running at 3.4 4 GHz without their precision boost
dynamic clock speed adjustments going at
all yet.
Demo number two also highly controversial because people were
looking at it going, "Well, how can this
8 core versus that 8 core have so
significant a difference in the stream quality?" And the answer from AMD and I
I'm I mean I'm I'm standing here with me in the webcam after stream delay. I'm
standing here seeing the demo. The answer from them is that it's their
infinity fabric that allows the individual processing cores to talk to
each other more efficiently that allows the game to be played here and the
stream to be processed on the CPU for
the broadcast much more efficiently.
Now, the obvious question is why aren't you just using quicks sync or NBNC uh
like a fixed function H.264 encoder and
there are two answers to that. So, number one uh you quicksync doesn't
exist on Intel's Broadwelli processors. They're they're high-end. Um, and number
two is that image quality can be with
the correct settings superior using CPU encoding. And they haven't toolled
around with it in order to eliminate that advantage of CPU encoding. Again,
very interesting. So, what does this mean for Ryzen? Uh there was a lot of
speculation before KBL Lake dropped that AMD was putting it up against Broadwell
E so that they had the advantage of comparing Ryzen to an Intel architecture
that was effectively two generations old. But now that we've seen what
Skylake brings to the table versus Broadwell, now that we've seen what KBL
brings to the table IPC wise versus Skylake, this is shaping up to be a
very, very interesting fight. and I can't wait for sometime Q120 2017 to get
my hands on a real actual retail chip and a real retail board. I know I'm not
the only one. So, thanks for checking out this video. Thanks to AMD for
bringing us down here to the show and being a big part of our CES 2017
coverage. And uh don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any of our
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