ZEN SR7 Rumoured January 17th Release

maonayze · 18 Nov 2016 at 16:30

The latest rumours about Zen are starting to emerge and what rumours they are. Relaese is supposedly set for January 17th for the top of the range Zen SR7 chip which apparently will compete with the Intel 6850 but at a cost of $300.

Usual rumour mongers below

http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-summit-ridge-prices-details-leaked/

https://www.techpowerup.com/227905/amd-zen-processors-to-supposedly-carry-sr3-sr5-and-sr7-branding

http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-zen-sr7-processors-coming-january-17th-2017-capable-5ghz-clock-speeds_188159

http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/99400-amd-zen-chips-debut-17th-january-chinese-mobo-maker/

http://www.redgamingtech.com/amd-zen-summit-ridge-sr7-costs-250-300-release-date-impressive-performance/

Sampsy · 18 Nov 2016 at 18:37

MY BIRTHDAY!

AllBodies · 18 Nov 2016 at 19:02

I'd be more than happy to pay £350 for the 8-core if it has haswell-broadwell IPC and can get to at least 4 GHz.

~>Dg<~ · 18 Nov 2016 at 19:10

will compete yes in a benchmark of their choice but everything way behind

jigger · 18 Nov 2016 at 19:33

~>Dg<~ said:
will probably compete in benchmarks and everything else

Translated from Fanboy to English.

Gerard · 18 Nov 2016 at 19:46

Be nice to see amd with some competitive chips again, might end up snagging one if they are all that and overclock well.

mmj_uk · 18 Nov 2016 at 22:28

So if I'm understanding it right the $300 SR7 is going to only compete with 6-core Broadwell-E (locked at ~3ghz probably?) and you're going to need to spend $500+ for the fully unlocked variant? what happened to AMD being the peoples' champion and not doing stuff like charging $200 for overclocking?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 18 Nov 2016 at 23:03

mmj_uk said:
So if I'm understanding it right the $300 SR7 is going to only compete with 6-core Broadwell-E (locked at ~3ghz probably?) and you're going to need to spend $500+ for the fully unlocked variant? what happened to AMD being the peoples' champion and not doing stuff like charging $200 for overclocking?

Blame Intel??

Perfect_Chaos · 19 Nov 2016 at 04:21

mmj_uk said:
So if I'm understanding it right the $300 SR7 is going to only compete with 6-core Broadwell-E (locked at ~3ghz probably?) and you're going to need to spend $500+ for the fully unlocked variant? what happened to AMD being the peoples' champion and not doing stuff like charging $200 for overclocking?

So they will need 8 cores to be pretty much the same as the 5820k give or take a little. Doesn't seem a whole lot better money/performance from what Intel already has out, though it should help with prices all round, eventually anyway.. Who knows with the weak pound atm.

Caracus2k · 19 Nov 2016 at 07:45

Will be interesting to see where the pricing and performance land. Hopefully not another AMD disappointment

dazzerd · 19 Nov 2016 at 08:49

Sampsy said:
MY BIRTHDAY!

My birthday to and need some new toys!

Bonjour · 19 Nov 2016 at 09:10

mmj_uk said:
So if I'm understanding it right the $300 SR7 is going to only compete with 6-core Broadwell-E (locked at ~3ghz probably?) and you're going to need to spend $500+ for the fully unlocked variant? what happened to AMD being the peoples' champion and not doing stuff like charging $200 for overclocking?

They've been doing it since the days of the FX-51?

SiDeards73 · 19 Nov 2016 at 09:39

mmj_uk said:
So if I'm understanding it right the $300 SR7 is going to only compete with 6-core Broadwell-E (locked at ~3ghz probably?) and you're going to need to spend $500+ for the fully unlocked variant? what happened to AMD being the peoples' champion and not doing stuff like charging $200 for overclocking?

I read it as all the chips will be overclockable, however they are going to continue with some binned Black Edition type chips that will OC a lot higher, im guessing the best of the silicon will get binned for these?

Anyhow from what ive been reading all of the chips are overclockable, just some will carry a premium as they will allow much better OC's

Bonjour · 19 Nov 2016 at 09:41

Most likely the Black Edition chips will be binned and have unlocked multiplier.

Orangey · 19 Nov 2016 at 17:16

maonayze said:
$300

So, £500 then?

jigger · 19 Nov 2016 at 17:40

Orangey said:
So, £500 then?

£243 plus the dreaded. So £295 ish.

bru · 19 Nov 2016 at 18:00

Why does everybody think these things will be $200.

The article that all these rumours have sprung from listed the prices FROM $200 for the cheapest and going up from their, the top notch 8 core 16 thread part is going to be an awful lot more than $200-300 in my opinion.

Yaayuh! · 19 Nov 2016 at 18:10

While most rumours have pointed to AMD showing off Zen at CES in January, the actual launch apparently won’t be happening until two weeks later, on the 17th of January. However, a second release date is also listed, with a ‘second wave’ set to hit in March 2017, indicating that perhaps Zen’s January launch will be quite limited.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...to-launch-zen-on-17th-jan-with-300-price-tag/

TBowerbank · 19 Nov 2016 at 21:33

I just want unlocked cpus starting from £100 upwards. If Zen delivers on that then they have taken a huge market share away from Intel.

Caracus2k · 19 Nov 2016 at 23:23

TBowerbank said:
I just want unlocked cpus starting from £100 upwards. If Zen delivers on that then they have taken a huge market share away from Intel.

seems fairly unlikely to happen with talk of CPU's starting at $200 (for the basic quads no doubt)