AMD Vega & Threadripper - PRICING & SPECS!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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on July 29th 2017 AMD held their Tech
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day for two of the most exciting products to come out of the company in
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years ryzen Threadripper and RX Vega
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now obviously I wasn't able to be at the tech day because I was busy with the
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rest of my team hosting our first ever LTX Tech Carnival but AMD provided me
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the briefing materials and Alienware sent over this area 51 so that I could
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show off both both AMD's top-of-the-line
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1950x 16 core 32 thread processor and a
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prototype of the RX Vega 64 limited
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edition from this park
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video description let's start with Vega the
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bulk of graphics cards actually sell for
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under $300 but that doesn't mean that there's
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no value to having an Enthusiast offering enthusiasts recommend Hardware
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to their less enthusiastic friends so if
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you're AMD every RX Vega you sell might
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sell a 560 or three so to compete in
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this space AMD says they went back to the drawing board on a lot of things a
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brand new pixel engine brand new geometry engine support for Rapid packed
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math to accelerate the rendering of objects that don't benefit from higher
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precision and 8 gigs of state-of-the-art
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hbm2 memory with up to an unbelievable
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484 gab per second of bandwidth the
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entry level card called Vega 56 contains
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only 56 of their next gen compute unit
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versus 64 in the higher end SKS it's air
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cooled consumes about 150 watts
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according to rumors full benchmarks will follow when the review embargo lifts and
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seems to be positioned against the GTX 1070 at 3.99 Standalone while the top
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tier Vega 64 is available in two configurations an aircooled version at
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1546 MHz boost and up to a rumored 300
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watts and a water cooled one at 1677
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boost and I hope this isn't right up to
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400 watts of power consumption as for
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pricing for this one it gets a little complicated out of the gate AMD is
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offering what they're calling radon packs so two games that vary by region
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the Germany version might contain prey and Sniper Elite rather than Wolfenstein
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2 for example $200 off of an ultrawide
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Samsung freesync Monitor and $100 off a
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ryzen 7 CPU and motherboard combo AMD is
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touting this as up to $420 of value and it seems like it's
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adding about $100 to the price that you
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pay based on the entry level pack with Vega
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56 and I guess all I can say is I hope
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that you the consumer think that's a good deal because at launch while this
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limited edition brushed metal shroud is available it's likely that the only way
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you'll be able to buy a Vega 64 is with
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a bundle this annoying restriction appears
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to be an attempt to ship cards to Gamers
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rather than just wiping out all their inventory to coin miners so at least I
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can see that AMD's heart is in the right place but I'd like to hear what you guys
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in the comments think about that on to
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ryzen Threadripper this one is both simpler and more complicated in some
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ways it's simple because we have a pretty good idea of what to expect based
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on the specs the 1950x is a 16 core 32
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thread 3.4 GHz based 4 GHz boost quad
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Channel ddr4 monster so given that we're
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already familiar with single-threaded Zen performance at a given frequency and
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Zen multi-core scaling across CCX units
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the only real question mark left is how the quad Channel memory enabled by AMD's
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use of four CCX instead of two will
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affect Zen performance and if I had to guess I'd say that's going to be a
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really good thing now it's complicated
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because it's hard to assign value to
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these high-end desktop Parts in traditional ways at $1,000 the 1950x is
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not a great value for gaming in the sense that an overclocked ryzen 5 for a
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fraction of the cost will perform very similarly or even better but from a
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Content creation data science and meat
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tasking perspective it's a total GameChanger and its pricing is a big
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part of that story over the last couple of generations Intel has inched up the
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pricing of its Flagship consumer processors in an apparent attempt to
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avoid cannibalizing the lucrative Zeon lineup and AMD says Nope
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they're launching two other chips here the 1920x is a 12 core variant with
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similar clock speeds but that one's not
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that interesting to me I think an extra 200 bucks for four more cores is a great
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deal by the time you're dropping fat stacks of money on an x399 motherboard
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and a cooler that's going to have to handle a
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rumored 180 wat and they're also
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launching an 8 core 1900x
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this one is actually more interesting to me because even though it has the same
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core count as a ryzen 7 if you're
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building a workstation or compute box you might not need a ton of CPU and 550
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bucks is a phenomenal value for the quad
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Channel memory controller and more importantly 64 PCI Express Lanes enough
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to run pretty much as many gpus as you want without running into band WID
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limits so in summary then to Gamers unless you're hardcore into CPU encoding
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your Twitch streams while you play which we will be testing in our full review
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it's not too relevant but to folks like me ryzen Threadripper looks like a game
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