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AMD 8 core RYZEN price

That is not a confirmed price, don't believe anything Wccftech tell you, they are the worst site on the internet for misinformation.

Expect the cost of the top end RyZen chip to be £750+ and you won't be disappointed if it's more and will be pleased if it's cheaper :)
 
im just having a bit of fun .any great speculation people jump on it and it must be true.:p

only thing i actually believe is proper set of benchmarks.done by people i trust or by myself :D
 
SiDeards73 said:
That is not a confirmed price, don't believe anything Wccftech tell you, they are the worst site on the internet for misinformation.

Expect the cost of the top end RyZen chip to be £750+ and you won't be disappointed if it's more and will be pleased if it's cheaper :)
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I don’t think they can price it much over £600 for the top version, if they do people will stick with Intel. I will consider putting an AMD Pc together if the price is not to high but if they decide to do an Intel/NVidia with the prices I will just skip it and stick with what I have.
 
Yeah, if the 1k for an 8 core from Intel is at the ridiculous level, which many people agree it is, then 600 quid for an 8 core from AMD is in the "still too high" bracket. And let's not forget Ryzen is only capable of supporting dual-channel memory. £400 is the most I'd want to pay for a single chip and switch platforms for, otherwise I can live with what I've got, although in the current economic climate, perhaps £450-500 is acceptable at a stretch.
 
FredFlint said:
I don’t think they can price it much over £600 for the top version, if they do people will stick with Intel. I will consider putting an AMD Pc together if the price is not to high but if they decide to do an Intel/NVidia with the prices I will just skip it and stick with what I have.
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Pricing it at only 60% of the retail of it's competitor chip? And you think that would be their ceiling? 75% I would expect to be a reasonable ratio. Cheap enough to still be a significant discount. Expensive enough to hopefully still make some money.

SniperDude said:
Don't think I could justify paying 600 quid for a cpu even if it's as good as it's made out to be
Doubt many would or even could.
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But then the 8c/16t isn't aimed at you obviously. You are not the target market. You were never considering the intel offering anyway, so why would they price it to get you when they can just price it to be competitive against it's competition?

It'll be the cheaper offerings that'll be aimed at most of us. I hope they will put out a 4c/8t chip at a price comparable to the current 4c i5's (somewhere around £200), with performance close to that of an i7. Then place the 6c/12t chips, at a similar price point to the current i7 4c/8t range (£300-400). That would make sense for AMD. Affordable chips, outperforming the price equivalent offerings from intel. Switch to AMD and move up a class sort of thing.

But when it comes to the top chips, where they are competing on raw performance, because there isn't a class to move up to, then a significant saving of 25% may be enough to convince industry to make the switch. And industry, I would imagine, will be the biggest market for these high end chips anyway. Sure, there will be hardcore gamers / processor hungry businesses, out there who will pay whatever it takes to have the highest end system available. But the Zen won't be aimed at them either, since they are going to be willing to pay hundreds of pounds more for a couple hundred clock speeds anyway. So unless the AMD actually BEAT the Intel in benchmarks, they wouldn't be a consideration anyway.
 
whyscotty said:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3149118/computers/what-we-know-about-amds-ryzen-so-far.html

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"It’s dual-channel

One thing we haven’t been sure about up until now is whether Ryzen
would be a quad-channel-memory CPU like its Intel counterpart.
Today, I can say for certain that it’s a dual-channel configuration."
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I thought it had been known for a while that AM4 would be dual channel? In any case, very few workloads benefit from triple/quad channel RAM. I think the only area where it'd be a consideration is the server space but with AMD's unified platform they don't have a separate "enthusiast" line where they can shove in quad channel RAM support.
 
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