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

[humbug]

Looking rather impressive for AMD so far tbh!

What i'm really impressed with is World Of Tanks, that's single threaded DX9 game performance, one of several games where Intel have up to this point smashed AMD, by some 60% or something silly....

Minimum FPS 6800K = 105 FPS
Minimum FPS 1700X = 107 FPS (+1.8%)

evens really ^^^^^ but wow, that is AMD looking at where they were weakest and then sorting it! awesome.

 

[Stanners]

What i'm really impressed with is World Of Tanks, that's single threaded DX9 game performance, one of several games where Intel have up to this point smashed AMD, by some 60% or something silly....

Minimum FPS 6800K = 105 FPS
Minimum FPS 1700X = 107 FPS (+1.8%)

evens really ^^^^^ but wow, that is AMD looking at where they were weakest and then sorting it! awesome.

It is looking good, WoT is a very CPU dependent game. This could be the final thing that makes me buy the shiny shiny

 

[chanjy]

The CS GO benchmarks are frankly silly.

As if anyone is going to need a 8c/16t to play CS at 275 fps

 

[harney]

Thus Far AMD IS GO

 

[five8five]

Not trying to derail the hypetrain but can we really trust these benchmarks?
Weren't there some really dodgy Chinese ones prior to the Polaris release?

 

[lltfdaniel]

What i'm really impressed with is World Of Tanks, that's single threaded DX9 game performance, one of several games where Intel have up to this point smashed AMD, by some 60% or something silly....

Minimum FPS 6800K = 105 FPS
Minimum FPS 1700X = 107 FPS (+1.8%)

evens really ^^^^^ but wow, that is AMD looking at where they were weakest and then sorting it! awesome.

All i have to say is nice.

 

[Martini1991]

These Zen chips should be the danglies for steam streaming using software encode.

Now I'm sticking my steam link in the living room, it'll be miles ahead of my 4770K.

Come on pay day

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

At this point, if the results are genuine and representative of the final product, you would think that AMD would lift the NDA early and make a killing in pre-orders.

It is still, thankfully, looking very promising*

*I have a 6700k and won't be buying, but, I really want AMD to bend Intel over after their ridiculous pricing structure for a number of years.

 

[chanjy]

Looking at the benchmarks above the 4770k I have is miles behind, but a full system change from Haswell to Ryzen is going to be about £800 after factoring in CPU, Mobo, RAM, Cooler... quite steep!

 

[old gamer]

Wouldn't that be nice.

I'm dying to build a Ryzen rig but I have a 4790k so I'm going to do Vega first, And the cheaper it is the quicker I can go with Ryzen.

i blew most of my vega fund on ryzen, plenty of time I think to save again I reckon

 

[Scramz]

For anyone wanting to watch the whole show, goes into OC tools, gaming comparisons and much more.

We have all seen part 1, skip to part 2.

 

[AlamoX]

CPUz results for 1700X probably overclocked but its beating the 7700k in single and 6950x in multi...
http://valid.x86.fr/bench/rjmzdu/16

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-official-benchmarks-passmark/

That Ryzen IPC

dont you think AMD would have shown it's single core bench if it did beat the 7700 during the presentation ?
carefull with the hype, AMD wuld have posted the benchs even if they were a tie, so R7 is lower ipc than 7700, no doubt about it.

 

[Mei]

At this point, if the results are genuine and representative of the final product, you would think that AMD would lift the NDA early and make a killing in pre-orders.

It is still, thankfully, looking very promising*

*I have a 6700k and won't be buying, but, I really want AMD to bend Intel over after their ridiculous pricing structure for a number of years.

they need to be careful they dont get backlash from benchmarks they didnt put out there...
i duno i just hope its a good launch for them >.<

 

[harney]

There is a side of me that is very excited and can not wait to build with these ryzens...and the other side of me that is sniggering to what Intel will have to do to counter.. i really want Intel to suffer ..as we have had to suffer far too long..

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This video demonstrates the CPU loading method used in WoT (the ending is most accurate)

http://imgur.com/gallery/mV9bFz7

LOL.

 

[woppy101]

There is a side of me that is very excited and can not wait to build with these ryzens...and the other side of me that is sniggering to what Intel will have to do to counter.. i really want Intel to suffer ..as we have had to suffer far too long..

This ^^^^^^^^^

 

[chanjy]

dont you think AMD would have shown it's single core bench if it did beat the 7700 during the presentation ?
carefull with the hype, AMD wuld have posted the benchs even if they were a tie, so R7 is lower ipc than 7700, no doubt about it.

Think you are getting confused about IPC and clockspeed.

This is obviously an overclocked 1700 but the 7700K has a massive clock speed advantage for single thread

 

[ubersonic]

There is a side of me that is very excited and can not wait to build with these ryzens...and the other side of me that is sniggering to what Intel will have to do to counter.

In b4 Cyrix announce new CPUs in major swerve XD

 

[AlamoX]

Wouldn't that be nice.

I'm dying to build a Ryzen rig but I have a 4790k so I'm going to do Vega first, And the cheaper it is the quicker I can go with Ryzen.

a lot of ppl will be doing an overhaul of their PC changing practically the whole system, and a lot of these ppl will change the GPU also, Nvidia will benefit from it, and AMD have to start some serious hyping for Vega in 28feb event, to make ppl wait for vega rather than jumping to Nvdia or the 1080Ti.

 

[Besty]

The early Zen chips and boards had their clock speed boost and their adaptive thermal firmware disabled, the latter was confirmed by testers and the former by AMD. The 7700k will no doubt beat it in single thread but it may be by a smaller margin than believed.