AMD Has Ryzen!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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862 words · ~4 min read
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AMD brought us to the suite here at CES 2017 to prove once and for all that
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Ryzen is real. It is physical. It is tangible. You can touch it. Well, you
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can't touch it. But but but I could touch it because I'm here if I as long
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as I didn't care about like EST shocking it cuz these floors are carpeted. Not
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only do they have the couple of systems that I'm going to show you here, but
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they actually have systems from over a dozen of their partners. everyone from
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PC case gear to
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what the devil is this thing? Whatever it is, it's water cooled. It's red. It
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looks actually pretty freaking bananas. And the logo is in Chinese, so I'm not
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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
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in front of me right now are the ones from the AMD live stream about a month
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ago. Not they they're not rebuilt the same spec. They are the exact systems
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because that demo raised a lot of questions. Did AMD change this? Did they
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change that? What clock speeds is it running at? So, we have the answers to a
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significant chunk of that speculation
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right now. So, this one right here is
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running an 8 core 16thread. They let me take the panels off. 8 core 16thread
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Ryzen CPU on a validation level
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motherboard. So, this is like a reference design. You can't actually buy
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this board. They've got dual channel DDR4 memory in here. They're running a
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Titan XP because AMD are a bunch of smart folks. They know that RX480 is not
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going to prove that this CPU can run with the biggest, fastest GPU on the
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market today. They had to put that in there. It is what it is. But the point
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is, it's the real deal. Now, we have a
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look at this guy. AMD claimed they had a sixtyn00 K, a
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thousand processor from Intel running on
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legit actual production hardware. Oh, look, that's what it is. So, the demo
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that we're looking at right now is Battlefield 1 running on a six-t with a
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Titan XP. Otherwise, the same hardware. Yes, the case is different. That does
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not really affect the performance very much. If anything, that's an advantage for the Intel system because thanks to
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GPU boost, that card will run a little faster if it's cooled better. And right
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here we have it. Frame rate counter. Battlefield 1. In one of the early
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training missions, they are running damn near identically,
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which is pretty unbelievable. And AMD hasn't even showed all their cards yet
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because their chip is running at 3.4 4 GHz without their precision boost
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dynamic clock speed adjustments going at
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all yet.
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Demo number two also highly controversial because people were
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looking at it going, "Well, how can this
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8 core versus that 8 core have so
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significant a difference in the stream quality?" And the answer from AMD and I
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I'm I mean I'm I'm standing here with me in the webcam after stream delay. I'm
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standing here seeing the demo. The answer from them is that it's their
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infinity fabric that allows the individual processing cores to talk to
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each other more efficiently that allows the game to be played here and the
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stream to be processed on the CPU for
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the broadcast much more efficiently.
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Now, the obvious question is why aren't you just using quicks sync or NBNC uh
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like a fixed function H.264 encoder and
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there are two answers to that. So, number one uh you quicksync doesn't
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exist on Intel's Broadwelli processors. They're they're high-end. Um, and number
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two is that image quality can be with
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the correct settings superior using CPU encoding. And they haven't toolled
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around with it in order to eliminate that advantage of CPU encoding. Again,
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very interesting. So, what does this mean for Ryzen? Uh there was a lot of
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speculation before KBL Lake dropped that AMD was putting it up against Broadwell
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E so that they had the advantage of comparing Ryzen to an Intel architecture
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that was effectively two generations old. But now that we've seen what
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Skylake brings to the table versus Broadwell, now that we've seen what KBL
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brings to the table IPC wise versus Skylake, this is shaping up to be a
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very, very interesting fight. and I can't wait for sometime Q120 2017 to get
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my hands on a real actual retail chip and a real retail board. I know I'm not
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the only one. So, thanks for checking out this video. Thanks to AMD for
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bringing us down here to the show and being a big part of our CES 2017
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coverage. And uh don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any of our
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CES videos here at the show.