AMD 8 core RYZEN price

Mauller · 20 Dec 2016 at 11:33

Just a little heads up for everyone.

Uriel · 20 Dec 2016 at 12:25

I'm hoping for a 4 core, 8 thread Ryzen that will match existing i7s therefore forcing Intel to a shake things up to stay competitive. This might see:

2 core, 4 thread (e.g i3 6100 equivalent) for sub £80

4 core, 4 thread (e.g i5 6400 - 6600k) in the £80-£120 region

4 core, 8 thread (e.g i7 6700) starting at around £130 to compete with the equivalent Ryzen.

I don't actually think Intel will cut thier prices that far anytime soon but there are rumours of the 4 core 8 thread Ryzens starting at US$150. Sufficient clocks and balanced performance (paticularly in the games where AMD currently takes a hammering) could force Intel's hand.

Affordable 4 Core Ryzens with the possibility of an unlock to 6 or 8 core (if that happens) could prove very tempting for me.

Panos · 20 Dec 2016 at 12:59

I believe there is going to be also a 8 core Zen without HT.

And lets not forget 2018 the Zen+ at 7nm will start been manufactured
(GF goes straight to 7nm bypassing the 10nm process)

Mauller · 20 Dec 2016 at 13:13

Panos said:
I believe there is going to be also a 8 core Zen without HT.

And lets not forget 2018 the Zen+ at 7nm will start been manufactured
(GF goes straight to 7nm bypassing the 10nm process)

7nm will pretty much be 7nm finfets on a 10nm backplane.

cereal3 · 20 Dec 2016 at 13:54

curse this clickbait title, I feel like everyone is chomping at the bit for pricing

varkanoid · 20 Dec 2016 at 13:55

just saw this says released 4 hrs ago on AMDUK Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/AMDUK/videos/613827265477913/

never heard of this CPU before just came across it.

AMD delivered some live demos in its event last night, pitting a new Ryzen chip locked to 3.4GHz up against an equivalent, eight-core Intel Core i7-6900K at stock settings of 3.2-3.7GHz. As you might expect for an on-stage demo, the Ryzen beat the Core i7 by a small margin in each test, which included a Blender render and a Handbrake video conversion. Bear in mind the 6900K costs in excess of £1,000, so that's the sort of price AMD is looking to undercut.

beany_bot · 20 Dec 2016 at 14:22

They won't even give "us" a second thought when it comes to pricing.

They will price it to sell to dell and so-on to put in their machines. The % of solo CPU sales to end consumers is tiny.

Dell will have to make the decision as to whether "John" will be happy with an AMD cpu when "bob" told him he needed an "i5". Only price reductions will convince "John" to get the substantially cheaper system that "Daniel" at PCworld tells him performs the same. But many "Johns will want the i5 regardless because Bob said so.

jigger · 20 Dec 2016 at 15:49

Didn't someone from AMD say the top end chips would retail for around $500 USD? That would be £480.

StarShock · 20 Dec 2016 at 15:51

jigger said:
Didn't someone from AMD say the top end chips would retail for around $500 USD? That would be £480.

nope. afaik the $500 figure came of a random forum post and has been repeated since then. I believe AMD haven't so much as publicly hinted at any specific price.

jigger · 20 Dec 2016 at 15:57

£480 seems high to me. I think AMD will line up close to Skylake prices. The big question is what will be on offer with AM4 and what will the motherboards cost.

Caracus2k · 20 Dec 2016 at 20:34

jigger said:
£480 seems high to me. I think AMD will line up close to Skylake prices. The big question is what will be on offer with AM4 and what will the motherboards cost.

if you think an 8c16t CPU that's anywhere near competitive performance wise with Intel CPU's with the same core/thread count will be selling in the new year for a similar price as an Intel 4c8t CPU (6700K) that's currently selling for circa 300 notes I have some 'special' beans you may be interested in.

Will be interesting to see what price it does land at. Its looking like it will be interesting to see what the price and performance of the top flight Ryzen chip actually is but please people lets be realistic some people on this forum are either a bit naïve or seem to have developed a strange form of selective amnesia.

AMD have been quite happy to charge big $$$$ in the past when they had a top flight processor in the past and even when the didn't quite have the goods........

$733 FX51 from 2003 (that's over 933 pounds in 2016 UK sterling with US dollar inflation and VAT accounted for)

$920 FX 9590 launch price!

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 20 Dec 2016 at 20:41

~>Dg<~ said:
if its true its basically similar to a 5820k/6800k

zen scored 1100 a slightly oc 5820k scores at 4ghz 1200.the pricing if thats the speed needs to be bang on or its a flop.

But again it's most likely a low clocked ES chip,and the leaked ES chips were running at 2.8ghz to 3.2ghz,so the Intel 8c chip is probably clocked 20% to 30% higher,so ultimately it still ties in with the AMD demos which showed it was comparable to Haswell and Broadwell.

Ultimately all these leaks are pointless unless we know the ACTUAL clockspeeds the chip is actually running at - even a buggy BIOS can cause the chip to down clock.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 20 Dec 2016 at 20:50

I just had a look on AT forums,the leak has been confirmed as a fake. Apparently on the Chinese forum where it was posted,the person who leaked it used an Intel E5 2660.

Edit!!

First Gigabyte X370 motherboard picture:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1617227/...eview-on-12-13-at-3-pm-cst/1590#post_25723234

Andrei23 · 20 Dec 2016 at 21:09

Guys I just got a random call from AMD. They confirmed their cpu will come in at £499.

cosmogenesis · 20 Dec 2016 at 22:08

AMD should do well enough especially in xbox\ps4 next gen consoles. Could dominate,there

Akagi · 20 Dec 2016 at 22:12

Andrei23 said:
Guys I just got a random call from AMD. They confirmed their cpu will come in at £499.

Seems legit.

BRB, posting this on every forum.

FoxEye · 20 Dec 2016 at 23:13

It will cost less than an Audi, but more than a Big Mac.

wedrum · 20 Dec 2016 at 23:18

when are these new chips due out ?

kieran_read · 20 Dec 2016 at 23:55

Uriel said:
I'm hoping for a 4 core, 8 thread Ryzen that will match existing i7s therefore forcing Intel to a shake things up to stay competitive. This might see:

2 core, 4 thread (e.g i3 6100 equivalent) for sub £80

4 core, 4 thread (e.g i5 6400 - 6600k) in the £80-£120 region

4 core, 8 thread (e.g i7 6700) starting at around £130 to compete with the equivalent Ryzen.

I don't actually think Intel will cut thier prices that far anytime soon but there are rumours of the 4 core 8 thread Ryzens starting at US$150. Sufficient clocks and balanced performance (paticularly in the games where AMD currently takes a hammering) could force Intel's hand.

Affordable 4 Core Ryzens with the possibility of an unlock to 6 or 8 core (if that happens) could prove very tempting for me.

I hope they don't do that quite frankly duel cores should be banned it's 2016...

Only exception should be laptops but after my experience with an i3 laptop I bought two years ago I'm never buying a duel core agian.

Uriel · 21 Dec 2016 at 00:02

kieran_read said:
I hope they don't do that quite frankly duel cores should be banned it's 2016...

Only exception should be laptops but after my experience with an i3 laptop I bought two years ago I'm never buying a duel core agian.

I was talking about what would happen to Intel's pricing. I'm assuming low end Ryzen is going to be 4 core, 8 thread starting at £120-130 ish. The possible pricing assumes that Ryzen can match Intel for IPC and are clocked at a reasonable level.