AMD Zen 8 core engineering sample runs at 3GHz

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10 hours ago, DocSwag said:

AMD wouldn't price that aggressively unless Zen is worse than skylake and Broadwell e by a fair margin. If Zen is worse, no one will buy it. If zen is as good, AMD will probably price it just below Intel. If they price it super low Intel will just lower their prices by a lot to compete with AMD, and AMD loses. Chances are the 8 core parts would be 500 bucks and higher if you ask me. Also, remember they will have 16 threads.

I personally think the 6 cores would be the product to get. They would probably be around 300 bucks ish.

Yeah, I kinda chuckled at that pricing scheme.

 

Billions spend on R&D and a deficit they need to turn around... And the way they would do that is to sell them at unsustainable prices so that they can't possibly make a profit. Sounds good to me. 

 

AMD would have to have failed completely in meeting their goals to give away chips (yes, practically give them away) just like that. They certainly won't launch at that price. They would lower them post-launch like they did Bulldozer to match actual performance to the price point if there are problems. 

 

I doubt a top 8 core chip is going for less than $800. They might have a few of those, so they might spread across various price points. 

 

I can imagine them marketing their 6 cores with full pcie lanes and price them around (aka below but high enough to keep good margins) Intel's offerings and make good money that way. 

7 hours ago, Humbug said:

Depends.. if they want AMD to die.

They don't want that unless they can come up with an alternative solution that doesn't end with antitrust issues. 

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If the chip is more efficient then the lower clock speed is totally fine. Intel does absolutely fine with lower clock speeds and still beats AMDs current CPUs into the ground.

 

AMD has learned this and is hopefully doing the exact same thing instead of throwing stupid high clock speeds to achieve the same thing.