1 week ago, AMD reveiled their new Ryzen CPUs. Pretty competetive performance, it
beats and matches an Intel 6900K in select benchmarks (Blender/Handbrake). Also, they teased their Vega line-up (Their enthusiast 4K capable cards). It played Star Wars at 60+ fps at 4K
The stream from the start (https://youtu.be/4DEfj2MRLtA?t=903)
Specs revealed for the "Summit Rigde" 8-core/16-thread CPU and Zen archicecture in general:
- 3.4+ Ghz clock speed
- Two threads per core
- Pure Power (automatically adjust energy usage)
- Precision Boost (on-the-fly clock adjustments, works in tandem with Pure Power)
- Extended Frequenzy Range (the CPU can adjust its own clock speed based on your cooling ???)
- Neural Net Prediction (Basically a way to predict software tasks and execute those tasks efficiently/fast as possible)
- Smart Prefetch (Application data is cached so it can be accessed instantly. Can also anticipate future data access by an app)
Webpage if you want more (http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/zen-cpu)
What do you think? Team Red for your new CPU? I think it is great, the CPU market have been stale in the last years...
I abandoned AMD long ago and have ever since been a happy intel/nVidia combo player.
I went Intel for CPU/AMD for GPU. Very happy with that combo :) The Radeon Rx 200 series have aged well compared to NV's older GPUs.
I'm still set for a while with the PC that I put together a couple of years ago on GKID's advice. Once I can't play games any longer, I'll be hitting you up again for more advice, GKID :-()
I believe my rig will hold on for more years. Just need a new GPU. Thanks PZ :-()
What? AMD are really going to eat from Intel's marketing share with those prices (http://www.shopblt.com/search/order_id=%21ORDERID%21&s_max=25&t_all=1&s_all=AMD+AM4&search=Search) :o Markup from additional retailers isn't accounted for (most likely 30% extra), but 8 cores for 500$ sounds much more reasonable compared to the competition (1040$ for equal CPU).
6c/12t CPU is also rumoured along with a 4c/8t.