AMD Ryzen

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10907/amd-gives-more-zen-details-ryzen-34-ghz-nvme-neural-net-prediction-25-mhz-boost-steps

AMD is coming out swinging with the new Ryzen processors. They are leading off with the top-of-the-line model(s) and are seeing equivalent performance to the Intel i7-6900K processor.

They are claiming a frequency of 3.4GHz+ with 8-cores/16-threads...they are using pre-production engineering sample chips at-the-moment and are still optimizing them, so we could potentially see slightly better performance in the production chips. And if other leaks are true, their top-of-the-line chip will cost $500, compared to the $1100 i7-6900K.

Down-the-line models will be rolled out following the launch with a lower performing 8-core chip, a 6-core chip, and a 4-core chip. There will also be APU versions with 4-cores and an integrated Radeon GPU.

DS may want to consider adding some AMD options to their line-up once again, as these new Ryzen chips may eats Intels lunch in 2017, with similar or better performance at a much reduced price.

Also some food for thought: AMD has had the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) for a while now...it be interesting to see how one of these new processors fairs with an AMD GPU using shared memory pointers in their Heterogeneous Unified Memory Architecture (HUMA). In layman's terms, this is where the GPU may access information in memory directly, as opposed to asking the CPU to retrieve it, bogging down the CPU a little and causing the retrieval to take longer.

Wouldn't this be nice is it all proves to be true.  Another player in the field can only benefit the consumer. 

I'm so leary of AMD claims that my enthusiasm will have to wait.

Great to hear!

I'm reading my post again...lots of typo's...ugh, sleepiness showing through.

Originally posted by Meller True, looks like the estimated $500 cpu is competing with the $1,100 Intel CPU. But AMD always seems to showcase these benchmarks that don't live up to the hype once they are released to the public. Their samples seem to be golden.

AMD seems to be trying to be more legitimate this time around...possibly because they've been burned by this in the past. They are using binaries from the benchmarks you can download straight off the respective websites and are offering up the exact tests to try out on your own.

Originally posted by Meller The real question though is how much of a real work difference will we see with the dual channel vs quad channel for anyone not running high end workstation level applications such as CAD. JayzTwoCents (I know I reference him a lot) plans on doing a video to actually show case the performance differences between running things such as 8 sticks in a dual channel set up vs quad to give us real world results. It's quite curious as to why AMD chose to only have a dual channel IMC.

It may have to do with the AM4 platform and the socket. AMD intends to share the same platform across it's entire processor range. The density of PGA is less than LGA, so getting in those additional pins for the traces of the extra memory channel may have necessitated going to a much larger package size...one larger than they may have been willing to do for their lower cost offerings. I've seen benchmarks in the past (like this one) looking and the dual channel versus quad channel did not have very much difference for most things. Just compression suffered...I'm thinking perhaps video editing may be affected, but even CAD I don't think would take much of any hit.

Alex (and anyone else interested in Ryzen or getting excellent performance-per-dollar), you may want to listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47SjIqXi_Ms#t=47m32s

I feel its one of those "I will believe it when I see it" when it comes to AMD. They seem to DRASTICALLY over exaggerate specs, price, performance, or any pre release information.

It's sold out. Intel is on the ropes on this one. Is it "rope a dope" time again or Ryzen the real deal? Real time use will tell pretty soon.

It's about darn time. Intel has gotten incredibly greedy without the competition. This is good news for all consumers IF it's come to bear that AMD has finally hit one out of the park. Then maybe it'll give them enough cash to up their game over on the video card side - lol...

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