AMD pwns INTEL

[mistersprinkles]

Have you guys seen the new Zen chips that launch today? Holy crap man. 8 cores all the way down the stack. $329 for an 8 core 65 watt 16 thread chip. Unbelievable. The demos show these chips completely owning their Intel equivalents. I'm so sad that I have a 4790K now...

DISCUSS!

 

[JLuchinski]

Yeah I saw that first thing this morning, there's already Youtube videos from Linus and Bitwit as they are there for the unveil. The 1700 already sold out here, it's selling for $429 CAD. Glad I waited to upgrade, good timing to because it's tax return time.

 

[Intel_man]

https://m.ncix.com/deals/products/1331/106-CPUs-Processors

Preorder prices. Those prices are still pretty hefty.

 

[Origin Saint]

https://m.ncix.com/deals/products/1331/106-CPUs-Processors

Preorder prices. Those prices are still pretty hefty.

Depends on where you look...

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B06WVL3...TF8&colid=20FWS8SS020LH&coliid=I1Q5NFSO1N7G1N

 

[JLuchinski]

Depends on where you look...

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B06WVL3...TF8&colid=20FWS8SS020LH&coliid=I1Q5NFSO1N7G1N

That's one nice looking motherboard. Intel cpu's are going on sale left and right.

 

[mistersprinkles]

The 1700 is unlocked??? So you can make the 329$ CPU faster than the $499 CPU? Dooooooooooope

 

[JLuchinski]

The 1700 is unlocked??? So you can make the 329$ CPU faster than the $499 CPU? Dooooooooooope

They're all unlocked apparently. I want to see how the $150 cpu's perform compared to Intel counterparts.

 

[Deadpool]

Holy mother of AMD. The market is gonna go nuts! People have been waiting for this sheet for so long! Good stuff. If only I didn't live in a 3rd world county...

 

[Intel_man]

Depends on where you look...

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B06WVL3...TF8&colid=20FWS8SS020LH&coliid=I1Q5NFSO1N7G1N

Well they were talking about Canadian pricing... And we've been getting the shaft lately with prices due to the currency tanking from the oil prices.

 

[JLuchinski]

Well they were talking about Canadian pricing... And we've been getting the shaft lately with prices due to the currency tanking from the oil prices.

Don't forget the carbon tax and our countries leader shafting Canada

 

[YourDigitalJester]

Dangit man, im planning to rebuild my PC once i get some more money, dont make me switch to AMD

 

[mistersprinkles]

You would be crazy not to switch to AMD. Same price gets you an Intel 4C8T 8MB cache vs AMD 8C16T 16MB cache you'd be nuts not to go AMD.

 

[voyagerfan99]

I'd need to see the performance increase before I switch from intel to AMD again.

 

[mistersprinkles]

All signs point to the IPC being pretty much dead on identical and you literally get twice the cores for your money with AMD

 

[Intel_man]

I need to see some single thread performance of the new ryzen chips.

Anyone know of any being leaked?

8c/16t benches are useless for typical consumers unless you're into content creation.

 

[JLuchinski]

It says in this article the 1800 matches single core performance with the 6900k: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-how-amds-ryzen-will-disrupt-the-cpu-market

 

[johnb35]

I think anything above the 1600x is overkill for what I do. However, I've been thinking about getting the I7 7700k

 

[Intel_man]

I want to see numbers! Not what they said based on internal benchmarks.

It's going to be interesting what Intel does with their Optane SSD release coming up because they said that Intel processors are needed to run them? (for some reason...)

Optane sounds promising because they claim it's 1000x more reliable than current ssds. Again, hopefully those statements are true.

 

[Origin Saint]

Got some random stuff I found earlier

http://www.pcgamer.com/live-benchmarks-amd-ryzen-vs-intel-core/?sf58073430=1

 

[Deadpool]

I thought of that before. Who the hell needs 8c/16t? Certainly not gamers, or office users.

I´d definitely buy the 1200x or the 1400x though. Damn I´m so excited about this.