zen 2

[Taffy2101]

hey guys how you all doing 

 

so ive been thinking and i want to move to ryzen but seems im abit late to the party as zen2 sounds like its right around the corner so i was wondering if maybe i should wait for zen 2 or not my plan cpu was the 1600 so do you think it'll be worth it waiting as my main aim will be to game  so what do you guys think??  and also does anyone know when it might be coming out ?

[phongle123]

Just now, Name Taken said:

Zen+ is coming out in 2018 before Zen 2 in 2019.

I need Zen+ NOW for that iGPU/APU! But even when it comes out Zen+ will be retail price and Zen1 is already pretty good with 60$ slash.

[Taffy2101]

Just now, phongle123 said:

I need Zen+ NOW for that iGPU/APU! But even when it comes out Zen+ will be retail price and Zen1 is already pretty good with 60$ slash.

so should i wait bro?

my budget is not tight but its okay

[phongle123]

Just now, Taffy2101 said:

so should i wait bro?

my budget is not tight but its okay

No you should not wait. Zen+ even though it's going from 14 to 12nm. It's only expected to have a 10% increase in performance. This 10% though will mean a lot for single threaded games. Meaning the 160 single score from cinebench will hit 176 which will help quite a good amount.

 

So it's either right now buy Zen1 for a good price or buy Zen1+ when it comes out for retail. Zen1+ will have APU which I doubt would matter for you and 10% increased performance.

Zen1, Zen1+, and Zen2 will all run on the AM4 platform. Zen 3 will not. Since Zen2 will release in 2019 and AMD has said they will support AM4 until 2019 with new CPUs.

[Taffy2101]

1 minute ago, phongle123 said:

No you should not wait. Zen+ even though it's going from 14 to 12nm. It's only expected to have a 10% increase in performance. This 10% though will mean a lot for single threaded games. Meaning the 160 single score from cinebench will hit 176 which will help quite a good amount.

 

So it's either right now buy Zen1 for a good price or buy Zen1+ when it comes out for retail. Zen1+ will have APU which I doubt would matter for you and 10% increased performance.

Zen1, Zen1+, and Zen2 will all run on the AM4 platform. Zen 3 will not. Since Zen2 will release in 2019 and AMD has said they will support AM4 until 2019 with new CPUs.

thanks for the help