AMD Ryzen Platform Top 5 Features
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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It's no great secret why AMD brought us down to their suite at CES 2017. They
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want to show off their Vega GPU, their Ryzen CPU. Those are like the sexy
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things that everybody wants to talk about. But of course, a CPU is nothing
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without the underlying platform. And
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that's what this video is about. The top five things about AMD's AM4 socket and
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the surrounding ecosystem. So, number one is full support for enthusiast
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technologies. So, I'm talking about overclocking, Crossfire, and
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SLI. Yes, my friends, AMD got SLI
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certified on their X370 chipset. Number
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two is variety choice. So, for the first
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time in a while, AMD is launching a new chip, a new socket with support from the
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motherboard manufacturers with an entire range of products all the way from basic
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all the way up to premium products with reinforced memory slots, PCI Express
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slots, M.2 connectors, uh, great IO on
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the back, all of that good stuff. Number
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three is overclocking. All Ryzen CPUs
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are going to support overclocking and it's going to come down to the
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motherboard chipset. So the X370 and the
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next one down as to whether or not you are able to tune the frequency of your
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chip. Number four, native NVMe. So the
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chip gets 24 PCI Express lanes, 16
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dedicated to graphics, another four for NVMe or SATA, and another four to
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communicate with the chipset. So, that's a nice low latency connection to PCI
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Express drives. Number five, USB 3
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support is here in spades. You get up to 10 USB 3.1 Gen 1, which is formerly
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known as 3.0. So, USB3 5 GB, and two USB
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310 GB, so 3.1 Gen 2,
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right off of the chipset itself. Number
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six, longevity. So AMD has committed
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that this socket will be around until 2020. But of course that doesn't mean
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anything if they change electrical requirements. So new CPUs don't actually
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fit in them. They're saying no, no, no. We're not replacing this until DDR5 PCIe
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Gen 4. And not only will you be able to put new CPUs in a board that you buy
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today with a BIOS update, you can even throw an APU in there. You might have
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noticed even though Ryzen is a CPU with no onboard graphics, Raven Ridge, which
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is Zen plus Vega, is coming later this year and will enable those graphics
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outputs that are on a lot of these motherboards. Number seven,
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what was number seven? So, there you have it, guys. The top
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five exciting things about AMD's new platform on the AM4 socket for their
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Ryzen CPUs. Five. Yes, my friends, five.
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So, thank you for watching. A huge shout out to AMD for allowing us to be here at
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CES 2017. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any of our other IMO
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fantastic videos here at the show. And I will see you again at the next booth.