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AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by api »

timdafweak wrote: post #7

Impressive! While it doesn’t utterly destroy Intel, AMD does offer a MUCH better price/performance ratio. Things have gotten much more interesting indeed. Intel’s dominance is being called into question. As a result, we all profit.

On the other end ARM is also nibbling at Intel with AARCH64 chips that are closing on lower-end Core performance and building in server and high-end workstation grade features like virtualization.

Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by kayoone »

robotmay wrote: post #11

The 1700 is really well placed, often seems to beat the i7 7700k in benchmarks whilst drawing less power and costing roughly the same/cheaper. Probably even better value if the stock coolers are as solid as they sound. Definitely going to be a popular chip with gamers (I'm very tempted myself). Hopefully more software starts to make use of multiple cores more effectively. It's not like it's a new feature of chips any…

Especially in games i think it's pretty clear that even the 1800X is not amazing, really good, but behind a 7700k while being more expensive. If you are not solely a gamer though, it's the better choice!

Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by yread »

raverbashing wrote: post #14
yread wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's still losing in every web and office single threaded benchmark. EDIT: compared to 7700k that costs about the same

Yeah, like I'm going to buy a new computer to open PDF files, not to play games, render graphics or do complex simulations

games you say? It's up to 30% slower here

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X-R...

Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by arcanus »

api wrote: post #22
timdafweak wrote: post #7

Impressive! While it doesn’t utterly destroy Intel, AMD does offer a MUCH better price/performance ratio. Things have gotten much more interesting indeed. Intel’s dominance is being called into question. As a result, we all profit.

On the other end ARM is also nibbling at Intel with AARCH64 chips that are closing on lower-end Core performance and building in server and high-end workstation grade features like virtualization.

Yep. And nvidia and amd are hurting Intel in terms of servers which are moving in many cases towards GPU for acceleration.

Very interesting times in Silicon.

Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by snovv_crash »

yread wrote: post #26
raverbashing wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, like I'm going to buy a new computer to open PDF files, not to play games, render graphics or do complex simulations

games you say? It's up to 30% slower here https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X-R...

It's also up to 30% faster. That's how variance works.

Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by reitzensteinm »

yread wrote: post #4
vxxzy wrote: post #2

Wow. AMD has really pulled through on this one. They are really giving Intel a run for their money. This is going to be great for consumers. What is interesting is the HUGE jump in multi-threaded performance on AMD. Very interesting.

But it's still losing in every web and office single threaded benchmark. EDIT: compared to 7700k that costs about the same

But so does a 6900K, and that costs a fortune.

The Ryzen quads will come. I'm not at all sure what your point is here.

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