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AMD re-confirms Ryzen and Vega launch dates
Yesterday there was a fourth quarter earnings call today, with the results showing a few posts below this one. In this call AMD CEO Lisa Su confirmed that the consumer Ryzen CPU lineup will be available in early March.
The server based lineup code named tagged under Naples will launch in the second quarter of 2017. The AMD Zen based APU code named Raven Ridge (mainstream SKUs) are scheduled for launch in the second half of 2017.
“Yes, if you look at our product lineup in the first half of the year, I think we have Ryzen launching in early March, and then we will have Vega, our enthusiast GPU, launching in the second quarter. And so as we go through the year, I think we are quite pleased with the performance that we are seeing on both of those products. And so we should see Ryzen doing very well in the high end as well as Vega. And by nature, since both of those high-end markets are markets that we don't have significant presence today, there will be an opportunity to both gain share as well as increase attach rates in those markets.”
Vega was mentioned as well, the Vega lineup will launch in the second quarter of 2017. So that is the April, May June time frame. The Ryzen processors and platform will be available from day one Su also stated.
“There will be widespread system availability from day one,” Su said during the call. Channel vendors will receive the first Ryzen chips, along with system integrators. More traditional hardware vendors will come later, Su added.
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#5387437 Posted on: 02/01/2017 05:09 PM
Hi there
I must disagree, dual socket motherboard still have space on market, although Intel killed that by not allowing i7 or i5 to be used on these boards in dual CPU configuration and due this no allowing them to OC, last good OC dual socket motherboard has been SR2 from EVGA which allowed people to use Xeon CPU and OC them although no i7 or i5
Some task you can do on GPGPU, but not every one, same can apply to rendering, some rendering SW doesn't support GPU rendering
I disagree with there aren't really any CPU bound workstation tasks, you are not used probably for while some SW which use multiple cores, I've used E5-2683v3 which 14c/28t CPU and have used that chip mostly for rendering and for production works etc, my i7-5820k is fast enough but in some tasks E5-2683v3 has been lot better than i7
If prices will be good enough I will go too with dual socket board
Hope this helps
Thanks, Jura
Dual socket for anything that isn't a server has been obsoleted a long time ago. It was useful back in the days before GPGPU tasks and when there weren't quad cores with HT. There aren't really any CPU-bound workstation tasks these days that demand more than 16 threads while also not capable of offloading/dividing the work to other PCs in something like a render farm.
Hi there
I must disagree, dual socket motherboard still have space on market, although Intel killed that by not allowing i7 or i5 to be used on these boards in dual CPU configuration and due this no allowing them to OC, last good OC dual socket motherboard has been SR2 from EVGA which allowed people to use Xeon CPU and OC them although no i7 or i5
Some task you can do on GPGPU, but not every one, same can apply to rendering, some rendering SW doesn't support GPU rendering
I disagree with there aren't really any CPU bound workstation tasks, you are not used probably for while some SW which use multiple cores, I've used E5-2683v3 which 14c/28t CPU and have used that chip mostly for rendering and for production works etc, my i7-5820k is fast enough but in some tasks E5-2683v3 has been lot better than i7
If prices will be good enough I will go too with dual socket board
Hope this helps
Thanks, Jura
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#5387459 Posted on: 02/01/2017 06:11 PM
@Jura
Like I said, there isn't much of a purpose for multi-socket workstations, but there is plenty of highly relevant uses for multi-socket servers, even if it's just a small one next to your workstation. Though I understand what you're saying, a lot of what you're referring to could easily be offloaded to server(s). If your application is not able to offload processing power to a separate PC, I would find that application very questionable. I'm not aware of any serious applications that use more than 16 threads and cannot offload calculations to another computer.
Generally, you don't want to be doing any serious rendering or calculations on your workstation; you want to offload it to something else. Assuming the work you're doing is important, you don't want heavy calculations slowing down your workflow and you don't want to risk anything crashing. So, getting a separate rendering server is usually the best bet.
@Jura
Like I said, there isn't much of a purpose for multi-socket workstations, but there is plenty of highly relevant uses for multi-socket servers, even if it's just a small one next to your workstation. Though I understand what you're saying, a lot of what you're referring to could easily be offloaded to server(s). If your application is not able to offload processing power to a separate PC, I would find that application very questionable. I'm not aware of any serious applications that use more than 16 threads and cannot offload calculations to another computer.
Generally, you don't want to be doing any serious rendering or calculations on your workstation; you want to offload it to something else. Assuming the work you're doing is important, you don't want heavy calculations slowing down your workflow and you don't want to risk anything crashing. So, getting a separate rendering server is usually the best bet.
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#5387513 Posted on: 02/01/2017 08:04 PM
So march I can finally ditch this mess of a pc. Goodie.
So march I can finally ditch this mess of a pc. Goodie.
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#5387563 Posted on: 02/01/2017 09:34 PM
I 'member the Phenom. Please don't be the Phenom.
I 'member the Phenom. Please don't be the Phenom.
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Dual socket for anything that isn't a server has been obsoleted a long time ago. It was useful back in the days before GPGPU tasks and when there weren't quad cores with HT. There aren't really any CPU-bound workstation tasks these days that demand more than 16 threads while also not capable of offloading/dividing the work to other PCs in something like a render farm.