AMD ramping up Ryzen flagship clockspeeds as we move closer to launch

[orangecat]

On 1/7/2017 at 9:02 AM, Citadelen said:

It's takes Nvidia's boost to a whole new level, each individual portion of the chip can be dynamically overclocked by even just 1MHz; the chip will try and automatically squeeze as much performance out of the chip as possible depending on cooling provided, so I'd imagine the boost figures are the average boost attained by a number of chips with the stock cooler, which in this case it actually rather good.

Well we will have to see what it's like on the final retail chips.

[leadeater]

55 minutes ago, Kilobytez95 said:

Well we will have to see what it's like on the final retail chips.

Correction to what @Citadelen said, AMD only claims 25Mhz increments not 1Mhz in case that difference is important for you.

[Citadelen]

17 hours ago, leadeater said:

-snip-

Yeah I realised that last night and edited my original post.

[Energycore]

On 1/6/2017 at 4:54 AM, DELTAprime said:

This still doesn't give me confidence that they will have a SKU that can outperform a 7700k @5ghz for gaming.

Depends on the game, most games don't do  16 threads

 

But it's definitely now the go-to choice for 3DMark Firestrike physics scores

[Space Reptile]

has this posted here yet ? saw it on reddit /r/amd

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Ryzen 8C/16T F4 3.6/4.0 Engineering Sample Over 95W At The Moment. 6C/12T Just About 65W

 

[Energycore]

On 1/7/2017 at 10:41 AM, lots of unexplainable lag said:

*8 core. The "leaked" pricing so far puts one of the two 8-core SKUs at $350, the same as a 7700K. 6-core placed at the price of a 7600K, and a true quad-core with SMT for like $160-$180. That gets you a measly i3 on the Intel side.

This pricing is so outside what would be good business sense that if it happens, I will sculpt a hat out of vegemite, then eat it on stream.

[leadeater]

32 minutes ago, Energycore said:

This pricing is so outside what would be good business sense that if it happens, I will sculpt a hat out of vegemite, then eat it on stream.

Boy that's a though choice, AMD have a good product launch or watch you eat a life size hat made of vegemite. Top hat or baseball cap?

[LAwLz]

37 minutes ago, Energycore said:

This pricing is so outside what would be good business sense that if it happens, I will sculpt a hat out of vegemite, then eat it on stream.

 

3 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Boy that's a though choice, AMD have a good product launch or watch you eat a life size hat made of vegemite. Top hat or baseball cap?

Make it into a sombrero please.

 

But yeah, the pricing seems too good to be true if the performance is as high as AMD claims. AMD don't want to be known as the budget solution anymore, but at the same time, they must at least beat Intel in terms of price:performance.

[Energycore]

12 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Boy that's a though choice, AMD have a good product launch or watch you eat a life size hat made of vegemite. Top hat or baseball cap?

This one

[Energycore]

9 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

they must at least beat Intel in terms of price:performance.

It'd be great if they beat'em but they only gotta match'em

[DELTAprime]

Yeah I'm in the boat of I would love to see AMD do the cheap prices that the "leak" suggest, but in reality they are a publicly traded company that has a legal responsibility to make money for its shareholders.

 

BTW: I decided to go with a Kaby Lake build because it's out now vs Ryzen that will be out some time before the 31st of March. Would have been nice to have a Ryzen release date announced at CES.

[3DOSH]

2 hours ago, DELTAprime said:

Yeah I'm in the boat of I would love to see AMD do the cheap prices that the "leak" suggest, but in reality they are a publicly traded company that has a legal responsibility to make money for its shareholders.

 

BTW: I decided to go with a Kaby Lake build because it's out now vs Ryzen that will be out some time before the 31st of March. Would have been nice to have a Ryzen release date announced at CES.

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Join AMD Game Engineering team members for an introduction to the recently-launched AMD Ryzen CPU followed by advanced optimization topics. Learn about the Zen microarchitecture, power management, and CodeXL profiler. Gain insight into code optimization opportunities using hardware performance-monitoring counters. Examples may include assembly and C/C++.

Febraury launch it seems.

 

Source:

Spoiler

http://schedule.gdconf.com/session/optimizing-for-amd-ryzen-cpu-presented-by-amd

 

[Humbug]

4 hours ago, DELTAprime said:

Yeah I'm in the boat of I would love to see AMD do the cheap prices that the "leak" suggest, but in reality they are a publicly traded company that has a legal responsibility to make money for its shareholders.

well forget about shareholders... AMD should not price too low as long as the performance is decent. They need to establish decent margins and make themselves more profitable as a business. As a company It's in their best long term interests to do so. And ours too as consumers, we want a healthy AMD.

with bulldozer they had no choice but to price low since they missed their performance targets.

[cj09beira]

1 hour ago, Humbug said:

well forget about shareholders... AMD should not price too low as long as the performance is decent. They need to establish decent margins and make themselves more profitable as a business. As a company It's in their best long term interests to do so. And ours too as consumers, we want a healthy AMD.

with bulldozer they had no choice but to price low since they missed their performance targets.

they have an advantage, the missing igpu should mean ryzen could be cheaper because its probably smaller in die size.

[leadeater]

2 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

they have an advantage, the missing igpu should mean ryzen could be cheaper because its probably smaller in die size.

They are also comparing it to Intel CPUs that don't have iGPUs too though.

[cj09beira]

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

They are also comparing it to Intel CPUs that don't have iGPUs too though.

7700k and below have thats the important market :-)

and against x99 they have the advantage of simpler motherboards (no 4 channel memory).

[S w a t s o n]

On 2017-01-06 at 0:44 PM, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Forget it. Just forget it. You're not getting a 5GHz OC on all 4/6/8 cores ever, and if you do get it on at least one it won't be stable. Not on air, not on water.

 

On 2017-01-06 at 0:46 PM, Swatson said:

Oh you shouldnt have used that word, "ever". As soon as literally one person confirms it, i'll make sure to rub it in your face

http://mirror.ninja/5vixv8

someone will get it on air/water later :^)

[vorticalbox]

On ‎06‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 10:42 AM, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Also neat to know is that all Ryzen CPUs will be unlocked, but these are certainly nice base/boost clocks.

 

And this is the 8c/16t CPU. We'll probably see some higher boost clocks (4.1/4.2 or something) on the 6c/12t and 4c/8t Ryzen CPUs.

this is great, you just need a board that supports overclocking unlike intel with needs a board and a cpu.

 

this allows you to buy an overclocking board and a low end cpu, overclock it and them upgrade later.