*** AMD "Zen" thread (inc AM4/APU discussion) ***

[Spyhop]

I was looking at the B350 motherboards and some of them have a VGA port on the backplate. That's just perverted.

No analogue video allowed with 10ft of Ryzens!

 

[SiDeards73]

New AMD coolers

 

[StarShock]

pretty picture, but not really sure about the very blurry mounting on the 2 smaller ones. Doesn't really look like it matches the AMD bracket. Look cool if real though

 

[LoadsaMoney]

It must be love, love, love, do do..........

 

[AlamoX]

pretty picture, but not really sure about the very blurry mounting on the 2 smaller ones. Doesn't really look like it matches the AMD bracket. Look cool if real though

confirmed by raja on twitter
here is a picture of him in bed with ryzen , im guessing you pick the led colors.

 

[Silent_Scone]

That Passmark single threaded score is really good btw, if legit.

 

[harney]

Looks like Jim Keller and his team have done it ...Go AMD

Just go's to show how bad Intel have been milking us this past 4 gens...

Now lets see how much we get gorged here in the UK hope not

 

[~>Dg<~]

no hope about it nearly everything has increased since brexit.these wont be as cheap as we expect .especially if decent.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Spoiler

Just saw that on Raja Koduri's twitter feed from a tech journalist who works at TweakTown.LOL.

 

[humbug]

More info, supposed Pass mark scores for the 3.8 Zen chip

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/summit-ridge-zen-benchmarks.2482739/page-200#post-38733237

Reading further than then scores is recommended as there is further good info

Thats very odd, the performance is mostly less than the FX-9590, sometimes less than half the performance of the Intel chips.

But then reading on sometimes the 5820K is 30% faster than the 6900K, the older lower clocked 5960X 8 core 20% faster than the 6900K in MT....

The results make no sense, not for any of the Intel chips or AMD chips, slower CPU's scoring a lot higher than faster CPU's, the results are all over the place.

 

[StarShock]

a literal cats paw

 

[humbug]

Thats very odd, the performance is mostly less than the FX-9590, sometimes less than half the performance of the Intel chips.

But then reading on sometimes the 5820K is 30% faster than the 6900K, the older lower clocked 5960X 8 core 20% faster than the 6900K in MT....

The results make no sense, not for any of the Intel chips or AMD chips, slower CPU's scoring a lot higher than faster CPU's, the results are all over the place.

Reading on in that thread those results are clearly nonsense.... move along.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

LOL,just saw this Twitter response on his account:

http://i.imgur.com/qYvC7Wd.jpg

 

[mmj_uk]

Intel preparing some sort of counter?

I don't understand the new Kaby Lake chips, if it's so close that 100mhz overclock on i7 (7740K) makes a difference then I think AMD will be a no brainer anyway, Ryzen will be cheaper due to lack of IGP and you'll have a simple upgrade path to 6-8 core processors later down the line.

The only way Intel are going to be able to compete is by slashing the prices across their enthusiast line.

 

[AlamoX]

Thats very odd, the performance is mostly less than the FX-9590, sometimes less than half the performance of the Intel chips.

But then reading on sometimes the 5820K is 30% faster than the 6900K, the older lower clocked 5960X 8 core 20% faster than the 6900K in MT....

The results make no sense, not for any of the Intel chips or AMD chips, slower CPU's scoring a lot higher than faster CPU's, the results are all over the place.

look at the clocks, the FX9590 is at 5.15ghz, most cpus in there are over 4.4ghz

 

[harney]

LOL,just saw this Twitter response on his account:

http://i.imgur.com/qYvC7Wd.jpg

 

[humbug]

look at the clocks, the FX9590 is at 5.15ghz, most cpus in there are over 4.4ghz

Just one example.. the first one.

CPU Single threaded:

7700K @ 4.2Ghz = 2916 (+15%)
5820K @ 3.3Ghz = 2889 (+15%)
6900K @ 3.2Ghz = 2539 (Base)
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In the same single threaded benchmark how can the 5820K running at 3.3Ghz match the 4.2Ghz 7700K?

 

[Chrisc]

Consider me hyped!! Chooo Chooo!

 

[Silent_Scone]

Assuming those tests were done at stock on the Intel parts, those scores are all over the place.

Someone is playing silly buggers. 2400+ is 4.4 territory for BWE from running the Single threaded test. (9.0).

See here:

Playing field is more even...

 

[humbug]

Assuming those tests were done at stock on the Intel parts, those scores are all over the place.

Someone is playing silly buggers. 2400+ is 4.4 territory for BWE from running the Single threaded test. (9.0).

See here:

Playing field is more even...

For the Intel and Piledriver part that looks about right.
Zen is obviously an unknown.