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Thanks for the informative OP. Does Bulldozer have anything comparable to Sandy Bridge's QuickSync hardware transcoding engine? For me, video transcoding is the only usage scenario where I wish I had a faster CPU. Even my dated 2.13 C2D in the MBA is sufficient for just about everything else I do. So looking at this picture:  … I really hope that Bulldozer has a similar trick up its sleeve to not end up near the "unaccelerated" time, or else I won’t even consider it.  //edit: To clarify, Quick Sync is faster and almost as good as x86 in quality, whereas GPU based solutions are much worse in quality and in some cases not even faster than x86. GPU encoding also doesn’t scale well, if at all. Here’s the detailed anandtech article. (and check what CUDA does to the police car scene at the bottom of the article). After googling for a bit, I don’t think AMD has any similar feature for Bulldozer. Meh.
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You Am I posted:AMD will find someway of screwing it up, like dodgey third party chipsets or some CPU bug. Then it’ll probably be their last screwup, because I don’t see how they have a chance in the x86 game once Ivy Bridge is out. See Intel’s 22nm Tri-Gate Transistors and AMD’s lack of having something comparable within the near future.
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Shaocaholica posted:They could have used log scale. They tried but their PR department is running Bulldozer machines and would not have been able to calculate the values in time for the release.  In any case, I think the upcoming generation of PC GPUs is what next-gen consoles will run for the next 5-6 years. Hopefully they won’t mess this up.
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Factory Factory posted:One of the rumors going around, not sure if it was for PS4 or XboxNumbers, was that there would be a CU set aside for GPGPU programming to take over some of the highly parallel functions in the current CPUs of the PS3 and Xbox360. I would expect that extra CU to be responsible for background tasks such as the permanent, time-shift-like h.264 encoding and various streaming / decompression tasks. Possibly also some of the image and signal processing for the new Move/Kinect device? quote:Lead system architect Mark Cerny also confirmed the upcoming system will have a local storage hard drive, along with an extra chip build into the system with the sole purpose of handling all the PlayStation 4 downloading. Interesting enough about this second chip is the fact you will now not only be able to download games in the background as you continue to play, but a new feature coming to consoles is being able to download and play what your downloading all at the exact same time. //edit: nevermind, you’re talking about a CU in the APU and not an extra chip. Disregard this post. 
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EdEddnEddy posted:
Since this seems to be a realistic scenario now: If this really happens, why the heck doesn't Apple just buy AMD? Surely a company like Apple has analysts and insiders that can gauge the performance of Zen by now. They'd free themselves from Intel and probably get a boatload of useful GPU/CPU patents for their ARM chips as well.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Will save you the trouble of digging the answer out from answer from many times over: AMD's present arrangement with Intel contains a clause that states that if either party should be acquired (obviously this makes it only pertinent to AMD, and not Chipzilla) AMD's x86 license is terminated, as is Intel x86-64 license. This makes acquisition untenable for anyone desiring to enter the x86 space. Oh I see, thanks. That changes everything as AMD minus the x86 license and designs is not even attractive to Apple, even though they're rumored to switch to ARM. (thinner! lighter!  )I think there's a decent good chance we'll see Zen in future Macbooks assuming the performance pans out, unless they really switch ARM before that.
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blowfish posted:Well, according to that benchmark it beats out some of the low clocked 12 core Haswell Xeons, so it might not be completely useless i guess Really depends on the amount of cores I guess. 
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Is Skylake-EP the processor that would go into a theoretical trashcan Mac Pro refresh? If so then surely Apple has no other choice than to go with AMD (or kill of the product line, heh).
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FaustianQ posted:Won't be an issue on AMD processors, so unless you're concerned about overclocking, get the cheapest for the core count you want, get an X300/B350/X370 and overclock. Going to be weird capturing the feeling on 1998-2006 overclocking again. I want to believe  (pencil and spacer not included)
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SwissArmyDruid posted:https://twitter.com/Kimsstevenson/status/827666683108147203 I bet she's leaving for Tesla 
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First Ryzen price leaks? https://www.techpowerup.com/230483/amds-ryzen-r7-8-core-16-thread-processor-prices-outed-for-europe R7 1800X 8C/16T 4.0Ghz €599.99 (i7 6900K: 1109€)  R7 1700X 8C/16T 3.8GHz €439.99 (i7 7700K/6800K: 360/450€) R7 1700 8C/16T 3.7GHz €389.95 (i7 7700: 330€)
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pixaal posted:Are the two lower ends more expensive than the Intel equivalent? That top one is a deal though! Going to wait on benchmarks but the prices are reasonable enough that I could see it being worth $50 to stick it to Intel. Actually taking into account motherboard it might be cheaper platform even if the CPU is more have to wait on pricing there too. i7 7700s have 4 cores, 6800K has 6. Ryzen has 8. I'm really interested in reviews/benchmarks now. Kaby Lake will probably still rule at single thread, particularly when overclocked, but I'm at the point where I'll gladly trade a good chunk of single thread performance to double the core count.
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It's getting increasingly hard not to get excited. $490 for the top 8C/16T model would be a complete game changer if they can manage Haswell level IPC. I am a bit worried that the aggressive pricing is a hint at lower performance but we'll have to wait for benchmarks to find out. Unlike with Bulldozer the time is ripe for a bump in mainstream core count, particularly since many games these days are optimised for the 8 cores in the current gen consoles. Looking at Vega/Polaris performance I'm fairly sure that this would also lock down AMD's APUs for the next console generation. Opteron based Mac Pros with more than 16C/32T would also be in the cards.
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PC watch has more details on Zen, i.e. 3.4 Ghz+ Base clock, per-core voltage regulation, "AMD asserts that it will be able to compete with Intel's Skylake generation CPU core at a level equal to that of a single-threaded performance and performance-efficient design.", die shot, etc. machine translated link here eames fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Feb 9, 2017 |
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If those benchmarks are really at 3.4 Ghz Base without turbo then AMD turned the desktop CPU market upside down and it would be pretty hard to recommend Intel CPUs for gaming in 2017. That being said I don't think there's the slightest chance that these benchmarks were really without any turbo. The "n/a" is probably a result of the variable, completely cooling dependant turbo boost. I expect Kaby Lake with a realistic 5 Ghz OC to win out vs a OCed 1800 X in todays gaming loads but the 4 additional cores could cause Intel serious headache in the next 1-2 years. edit: wccftech 
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New leaks over at http://www.overclock.net/t/1623058/hwbattle-upcoming-cpu-coolers-from-amd including cooling classification and model numbers. 2x 4C/4T 2x 4C/8T 3x 6C/12T 4x 8C/16T and another table posted on the last page of that thread 
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Daily dose of Ryzen leaks! Passmark benchmarks of the R1700X http://www.pcgamer.com/new-amd-ryzen-details-and-pricing-leaks/ Better single core IPC than Kaby Lake — to be taken with  clockspeeds: https://notebookspec.com/pc-cpu/AMD-Ryzen-3-1100/254 https://notebookspec.com/pc-cpu/AMD-Ryzen-3-1200X/255 https://notebookspec.com/pc-cpu/AMD-Ryzen-5-1300/256 https://notebookspec.com/pc-cpu/AMD-Ryzen-5-1400X/257 https://notebookspec.com/pc-cpu/AMD-Ryzen-5-1500/258 https://notebookspec.com/pc-cpu/AMD-Ryzen-5-1600X/259 https://notebookspec.com/pc-cpu/AMD-Ryzen-7-1700/260 https://notebookspec.com/pc-cpu/AMD-Ryzen-7-1700X/261 https://notebookspec.com/pc-cpu/AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X/262 eames fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Feb 14, 2017 |
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Per-core OC/Turbo seems interesting because the system could select the best performing core and utilise that for single threaded loads. Kind of like binning the single best core for OC/Turbo on the 8 core die, or the two best cores for 2-core boost, if that makes sense. (perhaps I'm outdated and CPUs already do this)
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The AM4 upgrade path would be one of the main selling points of Ryzen to me. Intels sockets seem so fragmented that I can't even be bothered to figure out which one would be "right" for me. My current homeserver/NAS/VM host/game streaming machine has a 4C/4T Haswell Xeon and I wouldn't mind more cores/threads but won't swap the mainboard for a socket that will be obsolete once again next year. Hopefully they'll support ECC/IOMMU with consumer cpus + workstation grade boards.
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According to a reddit user the guy on the left says this was the used heatsink  lol if Zen does cinebench at 5 Ghz with all cores cooled by hunk of scrap aluminium.
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probably. Those tweets and the facebook picture of the cooler kind of make it seem like it ran Cinebench at 5Ghz on air but really that'd be absurd. (dumb link to random speculative thread was here) eames fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:I don't think that guy in particular was actually there, though? yeah, you're probably right and the 5 Ghz is just random speculation by a random twitter user.
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more "leaks" appearing on reddit.  this is supposedly a R5 1600X (6C12T/ 3.3Ghz base/3.7 Ghz boost) but the TDP model code doesn't match. A R5 1600X should be 95W but the code in the screenshot says 65W. (decoder pic here) for reference:  (img source) edit: changed comparison picture although it's probably inaccurate and should show 65W TDP eames fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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NewFatMike posted:What's the estimated price on that? Like $400? For half the power envelope (give or take, IIRC Intel and AMD calculate differently) of the 6800K, my hype juices are flowing. leaked pricing is ~$260 for the R5 1600X and ~$230 for the R5 1500. This one seems to be an unknown model between the two because it has the TDP of the R1500 and frequency of the R5 1600X — could be the R5 PRO 1600. edit: fixed model numbers! eames fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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apparently these are pics that the same guy posted but deleted shortly after — some guy on reddit mirrored them http://imgur.com/a/Us02h if the first cinebench score is singlethreaded (146 cb in case it gets deleted) with turbo then their neural network SMT implementation accounts for >30% of the total multithreaded score? bad news for gamers but I wouldn't be surprised. edit: i3-4360 (3.7 Ghz Haswell w/o turbo) scores 149 cb, i7-7700k scores 193 cb stock and 214 @ 5Ghz eames fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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I don't think Amdahl's law applies for loads that run 100% parallel (which seems to be the case in cinebench)
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the only reason why I added the 7700k is because it's the best ST CPU and benchmarks are readily available. it looks like the 7700k gains an additional ~25% from ST -> MT cinebench with hyperthreading so the 30% indicated by those leaks seem about right. as anime schoolgirl said it looks like IPC will be exactly on par with Haswell and there's a good chance that Zen will scale better with more threads thanks to a solid SMT implementation. now excuse me while I contemplate buying some $AMD
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Asus motherboard leak seems to confirm DDR4 ECC support http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.asus.com/gr/Motherboards/PRIME-X370-PRO/specifications/ eames fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:1x PCIe 16x, 1x PCIe 16x slot at 4x, 3x PCIe 1x I think you missed one 16x slot. The only thing that would annoy me is the slow 1x M.2 slot (~985MB/s) 2x PCIe 16x slot (8x when both in use) 1x PCIe 16 slot at 4x 3x PCIe 1x slot 1x M.2 at 1x 8x SATA III USB 3.1/3.0/2.0: 2x/10x/6x more info at https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5v4hqt/overview_ryzen_cpu_am4_mainboard_lineup_updated/ (picture of the board: https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2017/02/ASUS-X370-PRIME-PRO-1.jpg)
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The R7 1700X is basically identical (CB) or 5% faster (3DMark) compared to the 6900K at $389 vs $1050. I suspect that the overclocking headroom will be minimal because XFR is essentially automated overclocking but the value looks tremendous. I hope this is not a flash in the pan and AMD can keep this up without Keller on board.
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HalloKitty posted:That CPU/GPU pairing reminds me of the bad old days when PCs were sold with massively overpowered CPUs (for the time) but GPUs that were unbelievably weedy. All because most people only knew MORE MEGAHERTZ = BETTER! Yeah. They also sell a Intel Core i5-7600K/1060-3G/16GB/240GB SSD/1TB HDD for the same price.
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1600X @ 4.0 Ghz vs a 7600K @ 5.0 Ghz is going to be a fairly close race overall.  >50% of all 7600Ks will do that stable according to silicon lottery and judging from the early reports I'd be surprised if a 1600X goes far beyond 4.0. Intel will still have the edge for  . AMD for content creation (3D and video rendering, code compilation, VMs, etc).
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guy over at anandtech weighs in on overclocking and memory bandwidth. Kind of what I expected, sounds like the lucky maximum will be 1800X @ 4.4 Ghz at >200W TDP on water.  orangekrush posted:Overclocking this platform is crazy complicated and unrewarding. The clock speeds are low and if you have dreams of a 4.5GHz 24/7 setup, best forget it. In fact most of us will run 3.8 to maybe 4GHz on all cores if we're lucky for 24/7. 1.4V at 4GHz = 90'C load temp with air cooler, so be mindful of that. We need new coolers for the most part because the CPU height is not the same as previous CPUs amongst other changes. orangekrush posted:Again from source overclocking stable from 3.8~ is unrewarding, the silicon is temperamental to high voltage. A 3.8 all core OC is pushing it eames fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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O/T but all those legit tech news sites must be pretty fed up with sites like wccftech and videocardz driving 99% of the Ryzen traffic.
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https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd_reveals_a_exascale_mega_apu_in_a_new_academic_paper/1article posted:In the image below you can see that this APU uses eight different CPU dies/chiplets and eight different GPU dies/chiplets to create an exascale APU that can effectively act like a single unit. If these CPU chiplets use AMD's Ryzen CPU architecture they will have a minimum of 4 CPU cores, giving this hypothetical APU a total of 32 CPU cores and 64 threads. man they are really going for it pretty much apple's wet dream for the rMBP too, picks up where Crystalwell left off and turns it up to 11.
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meanwhile over at amazon... safe to say that these are going to run fairly hot. AMD YD170XBCAEWOF Ryzen 7 1700X Processor & Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler, Black Bundle by AMD Price: $495.99 & FREE Shipping. Details This item will be released on March 2, 2017. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X6N8QGB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487711187&sr=8-1 1800X bundle is up too: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06W5Q7B38/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1487711885&sr=8-4&keywords=ryzen confirms the leaked prices. comedy option: https://www.amazon.com/H-5000-Portable-Infrared-Quartz-Heater/dp/B00N516PX2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1487711885&sr=8-3&keywords=ryzen edit: links are down but a guy on reddit found cached versions 1700x: http://archive.is/2017.02.21-212855/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X6N8QGB 1800x: http://archive.is/2017.02.21-212937/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06W5Q7B38/ eames fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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SourKraut posted:The bundles or the processors? Aren't these 95w parts? the processors. it's all speculation but what we've heard so far the CPUs are very aggressively binned and barely scrape by their rated boost clocks with the (relatively beefy) stock coolers. higher voltages don't seem to do much except make them run a lot hotter, so it makes sense that one would need water to get a 1800X over 4.0 on all cores. I'm also pretty sure that their XFR-auto-OC-feature ignores rated TDP and clocks to the temperature limit. that bundle would confirm that.
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