AMD Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000) - *** NO COMPETITOR HINTING ***

[random_matt]

It will be a locked sample, like most of the 3600's out there, hardware locked.[/QUOTE]

Makes sense I guess, waiting for real reviews then.

 

[Stephanie Peterson]

Yeah i guess all the samples will be locked, very surprised if AMD go down the route of locking selected processors in the range.

Even if the 3600 is locked it is still chucking out silly numbers and is an excellent cpu from whats been leaked so far.

 

[EsaT]

I’ll be waiting to see real world differences on YouTube before deciding on one of them.

Going to be long long wait when there's hardly any any difference between NVMe and SATA SSD in game loading times.

 

[Grim5]

9am EST, 14:00 BST. However I doubt that anyone will be sticking to that to be honest, there is little they can do to prevent the CPU's being shipped the day before either, for Sunday delivery.



South Bridge, this isn't Intel

Also that is why they have fans, to stop them overheating.



It will be a locked sample, like most of the 3600's out there, hardware locked.

can't wait to hear that 3000rpm 40mm baby doing it's thang

 

[muon]

Placeholder prices keep dropping.

There's an example where the prices are actually very slightly below $ conversion + 20% VAT.

Looks like this Ryzen launch will be like the two before, competitive prices on launch.

 

[easyrider]

My 2600 has a new home ready for 3900x

 

[PieEater]

Still pondering 3700X vs 3800X, historically do the 105w CPUs have better overclocking results than the 65w CPUs?

 

[Zeed]

Yeah i guess all the samples will be locked, very surprised if AMD go down the route of locking selected processors in the range.

Even if the 3600 is locked it is still chucking out silly numbers and is an excellent cpu from whats been leaked so far.

Well NAVI is locked so...

 

[easyrider]

Still pondering 3700X vs 3800X, historically do the 105w CPUs have better overclocking results than the 65w CPUs?

I'd just wait for reviews...at this stage we just don't know how 3700x or 3800x or even 3900x overclock

 

[PieEater]

I'd just wait for reviews...at this stage we just don't know how 3700x or 3800x or even 3900x overclock

I'm asking if there is any evident difference in the overclocking potential of the current 65W chips vs the equivalent current 105W chips.

 

[Martini1991]

I'm asking if there is any evident difference in the overclocking potential of the current 65W chips vs the equivalent current 105W chips.

My 2700 tops out at 4GHZ.
My 1700 topped out at 3.9GHZ.

They're 65W chips.

Pretty sure the majority of people running 105W chips topped out at 4GHZ for Ryzen 1XXX and 4.2GHZ for Ryzen 2XXX.

 

[easyrider]

I'm asking if there is any evident difference in the overclocking potential of the current 65W chips vs the equivalent current 105W chips.

Thats fine ...last gen are not 7nm chips are they...so I'm not sure how knowing these clocks would help you make decision on 3700x or 3800x

Yeah my 2600 65 w topped out at 4.2ghz...go get a 3700x ! lol

 

[MasterOC]

Still pondering 3700X vs 3800X, historically do the 105w CPUs have better overclocking results than the 65w CPUs?

My 2700 failed at anything higher than a 4.05ghz all core ( 65w )
My 2700 x manages 4.25 all core ( 105w ) althought I wouldn't call this better overclockng as both all cores are under the rated single core for each

 

[easyrider]

My 2700 failed at anything higher than a 4.05ghz all core ( 65w )
My 2700 x manages 4.25 all core ( 105w ) althought I wouldn't call this better overclockng as both all cores are under the rated single core for each

Thanks for posting that...Its given me more of and insight into whether I buy a 3700x over a 3800 x

 

[awaybreaktoday]

hmmm

 

[Mercutio]

My 2700 failed at anything higher than a 4.05ghz all core ( 65w )
My 2700 x manages 4.25 all core ( 105w ) althought I wouldn't call this better overclockng as both all cores are under the rated single core for each

This.
It's always the trade off. 100mhz less boost clock on 1-2 cores for 95% speed all core.
I'm in the "let XFR2 do it's thing" school of thought.

 

[Beren]

Interesting results on the far cry graph, massive improvement over the 2700x but it is still significantly behind the 9900k, I wonder how much higher the clocks are going to be on the 3800x and 3900x in real testing.

 

[smilingcrow]

Yeah i guess all the samples will be locked, very surprised if AMD go down the route of locking selected processors in the range.
Even if the 3600 is locked it is still chucking out silly numbers and is an excellent cpu from whats been leaked so far.

The specs are on AMD's site so the R5 3600 is certainly not locked - https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-5-3600

 

[chrcoluk]

Pretty happy with my 8086k, clocked it to 5.2 Ghz now so it shouldn't have issues with any game for until I guess the end of this year or maybe another year after that. At least by that point the Zen 2 platform will have matured and prices settled.

I'm more interested in the Zen 2 based EPYC CPUs as I fancy replacing my 3 Supermicro E200-8D servers with one single 2U EPYC based rack mount and nest my vCenter environment on it.

You got a 6/12 chip (probably best chip intel ever made for mainstream), clocked at 5.2, AMD wont be catching that this gen, it will last you a lot more than a year, probably 4-5 years before it becomes an issue in games in my opinion.

 

[StriderX]

They did catch it... catching it isn't the problem though, single core was hardly going to be bested, the main benefit in AMD's line up is MCP at a decent price while being in-line with Intel's top end SCP wise (give or take, and less if it needs the 10-20 ns latency bump).

Also while the consoles have technically been 8 core this gen, the devs are likely to start seriously pushing it with the next ones, especially with the improved ability GPU wise, but yes a top of the line 6 core should be fine for a few years yet.

Interesting results on the far cry graph, massive improvement over the 2700x but it is still significantly behind the 9900k, I wonder how much higher the clocks are going to be on the 3800x and 3900x in real testing.

Gotta wait until the more tests are out, that review seems awkward with it's memory issue.