AMD CPU Discussion Thread
This thread can serve as a general discussion and news thread for all things pertaining to AMD CPU's and their respective platforms.
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This thread can serve as a discussion thread for the new AMD Processors (Ryzen) and APU's and the AM4 socket. My initial thread touted a March release date but that was inaccurate. I've compiled some info, but feel free to read through the thread and join the discussion.
This is what I've found so far, feel free to post more news as well. Sources at the bottom. Updated 1/26/17
- AMD's new line of CPU's (Ryzen) and APU's will be part of the AM4 socket with DDR4 RAM. They plan to keep the same socket until 2020, meaning a 4 year life cycle.
- Rumored release date is likely February-March 2017 with AMD stating they aim to launch before the end of the quarter (March 3rd) with a full lineup of CPU's and motherboards.
- The highest performance Ryzen chip will have 8 cores,16 threads, 95 watt TDP, and a base clock of 3.4GHz+. Undisclosed models willbe filling in the lower price tiers. No dual core CPU's will be made, although a dual core APU is expected. This also means that they will be using a form of multi threading to run two threads on one core like Intel does with Hyper Threading.
- 40%+ IPC increase over Excavator CPU's, which is still a few generations past their last high end CPU's (Piledriver).
- X370 (high end), X300 (high end ITX), and B350 (Mainstream) motherboards will support overclocking on any Ryzen chip. All Ryzen CPU's are unlocked, meaning the board determines if you can overclock, not the chip like Intel's K processors.
- Blender demos show a Ryzen chip matching and even beating an Intel i7 6900K.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5prnuw/psa_compilation_of_confirmed_amd_ryzen_details/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11031/amd-set-to-launch-ryzen-before-march-3rd-meeting-q1-target
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3155...s-7-all-new-details-revealed-at-ces-2017.html
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