What to expect from AMD on October 8th?

[Rikmeister]

And remember, the Zen 2 chips still exist - with some very nice cash back deals (MSI).

What are these cashback deals you talk of?

 

[Rikmeister]

I don’t think the Navi cards will be available on launch day or announcement date. Everyone though 8th Oct was zen3 launch but it is just an announcement. Similar will be for Navi. No idea when they gonna be making those cards available...but mid-Nov seems about the right time to land to reap the sales season etc

Originally I thought the 8th was the announcement date but so many people said it was the lauch date I began to believe it.

Recently I've been hearing that the actual launch date would be the 20th, however AMD were keen to not make the mistakes Nvidia did so pushed back the launch to 5th Nov to give themselves more time to build up stocks.

 

[Rroff]

I'm not sure if this is intentional or the sound is broken LOL

So just rewatched the start of the stream again - something was broken in YouTube - I had Lisa repeating the first few words over and over every 10 seconds "we started zen" until the end of the introduction bit which was kind of odd - but doesn't happen in the recording so must have been YT playing up.

 

[Slinky69]

What are these cashback deals you talk of?

Here:

https://uk.msi.com/Promotion/back-to-school-2020

But I believe you have to buy Mobo and CPU in same transaction - Check the Ts&Cs carefully

 

[Rikmeister]

Here:

https://uk.msi.com/Promotion/back-to-school-2020

But I believe you have to buy Mobo and CPU in same transaction - Check the Ts&Cs carefully

Thanks. ASUS are also doing a cashback. £25 on their stuff via https://rate-my-gear.sales-promotions.com/

 

[Rikmeister]

Apart from the IPC increase the unified cache could be very significant

 

[Absolutely Clueless]

I don’t think the Navi cards will be available on launch day or announcement date. Everyone though 8th Oct was zen3 launch but it is just an announcement. Similar will be for Navi. No idea when they gonna be making those cards available...but mid-Nov seems about the right time to land to reap the sales season etc

I know, but even if it is mid-late Nov, I will probably roll the dice. It'll be higher than the current chance I have of getting a 3080.

 

[Rikmeister]

With only 4 CPUs announced and the Ryzen 5 5600X @ $299 it seems to me likely that AMD will at some stage announce lower priced Ryzen 3 CPUs.

 

[Joxeon]

With only 4 CPUs announced and the Ryzen 5 5600X @ $299 it seems to me likely that AMD will at some stage announce lower priced Ryzen 3 CPUs.

$200 quad core anyone?

 

[FoxEye]

$200 quad core anyone?

Can't wait It'll be like 2012 all over again

 

[Absolutely Clueless]

Can't wait It'll be like 2012 all over again

And 2012 was arguably better than 2020 in many ways...