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Thing is tho, they have had 5 years development time, which in the world of IT is an age.
Not if your designing a new CPU from the ground up, its about right.
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Thing is tho, they have had 5 years development time, which in the world of IT is an age.
Indeed. If after all this the 8C ends up falling short and not even in Kaby territory (never mind the 5GHz overclocks which it will struggle with), then AMD are dead and buried lol! I don't think that's at all likely however, but the price point is going to be key. If they get that right, they will have a winner on their hands for sure. As a pure gaming CPU however, I don't quite see how it's going to compete with the 7700k for raw performance, but if cheap enough it will sway many.
Broadwell-E and Kaby Lake have fallen short. Anything around Ivybridge performance puts AMD back in the mix. An unlocked 8 core 16 thread Ivybridge chip on a unified AM4 socket would be a really strong desktop system. At 95 watt it would also be a very strong work station/professional system.
That's a fail. This is categorically not what AMD are leading people to believe Ryzen is, or that they just want to be 'back in the mix', so if that's all Ryzen ends up being, some mid-range offering that doesn't excite or compete with the big guns, they're done as a CPU entity that anyone takes seriously anymore. Intel win, and consumers are screwed forever and eternity. They need to rival and beat Intel's top offerings on performance and price, and when it comes to price, significantly so.
It's not a fail. If Intel unified Soc 2011 and 1151 and brought out a 95 watt 8 core 16 thread i7 with Broadwell-E performance people would be all over it...
AMD have said 40% performance jump and shown a few practical tests. What you have read into that yourself is up to you.
The difference between Ivybridge and Broadwell-E is to be sniffed at though.
Thing is tho, they have had 5 years development time, which in the world of IT is an age.
Skylake is barely faster than Broadwell to begin with so even if Ryzen is around Broadwell IPC, it'd likely beat Skylake in some benchmarks and lose in others.
Its a good 8% faster IPC is SKylake to BWE so be carefull with these kind of statements.
Its a good 8% faster IPC is SKylake to BWE so be carefull with these kind of statements.
^^ Oh dear!!!
Margin of error, they're all performing the same, to the GPU bottleneck.
Compare them clock to clock in something that is entirely CPU dependant.
Why don't you tell Anandtech then , your critique of their review method. Of course , you do run your own high traffic tech website, yes?
It's a shame when objectivity is met with some venom.