AMD Ryzen as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2017-05-06
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1,150 words · ~5 min read
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okay so the accepted wisdom is that shrinking transistor sizes will make our
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CPUs perform better and consume less
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power and this has generally been true
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but if you were to talk to someone with an AMD based computer who's been waiting
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to upgrade you might not know it as team
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red hasn't given us a noteworthy update of their Flagship CPU line since 20
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freaking 12 meanwhile Intel has been
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giving us new architectures and die shrinks fairly regularly leading to
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decreased market share for AMD who I
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guess you could say hadn't risen to the
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challenge but all of that presumably is
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about to change yes my friends that bad
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pun in the topic of today's video AMD's allnew ryzen CPUs is here and AMD is
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hoping that it'll give Intel some real competition and consumers some actual
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choice in the processor market for the first time in a long time but what makes
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ryen special and how does it stack up against the best from Team
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blue well although AMD hasn't backed
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down on their philosophy of cramming eight processor cores onto a single
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consumer level chip this time around it
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looks like there's a much greater focus on single-threaded performance
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big news for both Gamers and H people
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who use their computers for all the other common tasks that don't often
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leverage multiple CPU cores AMD claims
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that its topend ryzen chip the 1800x Beats Intel's latest Enthusiast
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chips Broadwell e in single-threaded
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tasks while legging a few percentage points behind K Lake which we found to
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be generally the truth in our independent testing which you can check
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out for yourself right here but how did they do that well aside from shrinking
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their transistors to 14 nanometers which on par with Intel now AMD has baked in a
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lot of smart features such as neural
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network like Branch prediction functionality in which the CPU examines
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data patterns to read ahead on the page so to speak better links between the
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course and the CPU cache allowing the course to decode things concurrently and
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thus turn instructions around much more quickly faster and more granular
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switching between clock speeds which AMD calls Precision boost individual voltage
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curves assigned for each chip at the factory and AMD's new Infinity fabric
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interconnect for faster communication between the CPU and components like
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memory graphics and down the line on their server platform other CPUs
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and gone are the days of cores sharing
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crucial resources a design choice that
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hobbled AMD's old FX series chips that
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shared a single floating Point Unit between two cores ryen has truly
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discreet cores and what's more they've got simultaneous multi-threading which
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is similar to Intel hyperthreading
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technology add in greater power efficiency overclocking enable on every
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chip as long as you pair it with a b or X Series chipset motherboard and Native
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support for modern features like USB 3.11 gbit PCI Express 3.0 ddr4 memory
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and NVMe for fast solid state storage
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and ryzen looks like a winner but wait
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how can it be a winner if it still isn't consistently outperforming an
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i77700k well unsurprisingly the answer
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to this question comes down to price the
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structure of the ryzen lineup uncreative borrows from Intel at the highend
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instead of an i7 you get a ryzen 7 which
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at this time is an 8 core 16 thread
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product targeting high-end Gamers streamers and creative professionals
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stepping down to take on the I5 you get
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you guessed it ryzen 5
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but instead of being limited to four cores with no smt AMD's lineup in this
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price range will include four and six core Solutions with
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smt Wow moving down the stack ryzen 3
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looks poised to deliver cor I5 like performance at a COR I3 like price so no
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smt but with four physical cores it should be very competitive given that
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unconfirmed pricing leaks indicate it'll be starting at about 129 us so then is
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ryzen right for you well that depends do
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you like spending less money okay but seriously it's not that simple do keep
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in mind that on the other side Intel still edges ahead in performance in many
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applications and offers some platform exclusive features not found on ryzen
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such as Thunderbolt 3 optained memory technology and a maximum of 40 PCI
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Express Lanes compared to ryzen's 24 but
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if your workloads benefit from more course and you don't want to spend an
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ARM in a leg to get the absolute highest benchmark scores or render times ryzen
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just might be appealing enough to find a home in your next PC especially if
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developers who have been understandably focused on Intel for the last 5 years or
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so really start optimizing games and programs for AMD's all new architecture
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and regardless of who you ultimately buy your CPU from a quality chip from AMD
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