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AMD Ryzen 3000 Announced: Five CPUs, 12 Cores for $499, Up to 4.6 GHz, PCIe 4.0, Coming 7/7
Quite a few things I like:
1) Socket life and backwards compatibility with AM4
2) AMD's Soldered IHS - I never forgave Intel for cheaping-out with paste under the lid - post Sandy Bridge.
3) Intel's IPC & Process lead seems to have evaporated (although real benches will come later with the release 07/07/19)
**It also helped that Intel gagged on its 10nm node
4) PCIe 4.0 - not a big deal for video cards (as they've yet to saturate PCIe 3.0)... but will pay big dividends for the next gen SSDs.
5) No gimping processors with non-SMT SKUs.
6) Price point vs Intel - very favorable
Good time to be a consumer again, competition is a good thing.
I have a feeling AMD is sandbagging a bit and we could see a 16/32 AM4 beastie (depending on Intel's response) on the refresh cycle, I'm guessing 6-7 months. It does exist ----> as an engineering sample
Who's in on the next release, and which one?
Quite a few things I like:
1) Socket life and backwards compatibility with AM4
2) AMD's Soldered IHS - I never forgave Intel for cheaping-out with paste under the lid - post Sandy Bridge.
3) Intel's IPC & Process lead seems to have evaporated (although real benches will come later with the release 07/07/19)
**It also helped that Intel gagged on its 10nm node
4) PCIe 4.0 - not a big deal for video cards (as they've yet to saturate PCIe 3.0)... but will pay big dividends for the next gen SSDs.
5) No gimping processors with non-SMT SKUs.
6) Price point vs Intel - very favorable
Good time to be a consumer again, competition is a good thing.
I have a feeling AMD is sandbagging a bit and we could see a 16/32 AM4 beastie (depending on Intel's response) on the refresh cycle, I'm guessing 6-7 months. It does exist ----> as an engineering sample
Who's in on the next release, and which one?