AMD Ryzen 14nm Wafer Yields Pass 80% - Threadripper CPUs on track
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Anarion
RandomDriverDev
Loophole35
MisterGutsy
Every time i see Ryzen benchmarks i get excited until i finally reach gaming benchmarks and then the disappointment begins. Even my 5 year old 4770k is faster in most games.
If i was upgrading today i would be an absolute idiot not to get a high core ryzen but performance gain in games in not enough if any for me to warrant an upgrade.
Chillin
Venix
Stormyandcold
On youtube, along with this news was more info that dual-cores (Ryzen 3?) are also coming, so, AMD will be doing a full market deployment of Ryzen processors.
Alvaro66
H83
Fox2232
Kaarme
RandomDriverDev
RandomDriverDev
PrMinisterGR
For LLVM someone did it just by using the "Haswell" profile, which wasn't even optimized for AMD, less even for separate CCXs.
For your nickname, you don't seem to grasp basic stuff.
No, they won't. I don't know what's your issue with the whole CCX design, but even consoles with multiple times weaker CPUs have two quads in them, not an octo. This has been happening in software and compilers are aware of it since time immemorial, the only issue is for code like that to actually run on Ryzen (most of the times a really simple patch or even a recompilation with simple flag changes is enough).
RandomDriverDev
PrMinisterGR
Arbie
I just wonder when people say things like "Ryzen fails at gaming".
First off, there aren't many SP games even worth playing. I struggle to find more than a few, and those are old now. Even the newest run fine on my ancient rig. For me, worrying about the last few FPS is pointless. I wish that were otherwise... I wish there were new games as good as Crysis which would make me want top-end graphics - but there aren't. And I've looked.
Next, when I do play it's at 2560x1440 because that's what I use for everything. At that res games look better - and differences in CPU clocks matter much less.
So except those who seriously play online shooters (perhaps 20% of "gamers"?) and will stick with 1080, the idea that you should buy the fastest quad core instead of a fast 6- or 8-core is silly. You may not actually need ANY upgrade, since most of us spend little overall time pushing our apps, but if you want to move up, go with tomorrow's architecture. You will get increasing value from the 6- or 8-core and decreasing value from the quad. Unless you change out your system every year because you're a "gamer" and you've drunk the "max FPS regardless" kool-aid sold everywhere around here.
Finally, if you really do value CPU performance and hope to see it increase in the future, you'd better strongly consider that Ryzen may be AMD's last throw of the dice. They've somehow scraped together the resources and smarts to come from wayyyy behind, and they're visibly forcing Intel to release new products that company would rather have delayed or simply never give us. One obvious question is: do you want to reward AMD or Intel with your money now? And equally obvious: Do you want a future without x86 competition?
When you consider all the factors, it's clear that except for a very few cases, a Ryzen 6- or 8-core is the best choice at this time. That will still be true even if and when Intel counters with chips of equal value, because it will still be important to keep AMD in the race. I've finally seen this and my position is: if AMD can even be competitive, they'll get my money.
anticupidon
Guys, correct me if i am wrong here.Better wafer yelds, lower price, thus benefit to the end user?And further challenge to the CPU price competition, right?
A7ibaba
Im so glad AMD is on killing streak. We need strong AMD against two dominant monopolist in CPU and GPU market with their ridiculous pricing and stagnating development scale.
Emille
I wish AMD all the success in the world, so they can light a fire under intel and the race for intel mainstream higher core parts can get underway so I can buy a chip for a reasonable price that does not have terrible ipc or gaming performance like the benches I saw from the AMD offerings so far.
AMD offering 44pci lanes all the way down is a big deal though, we need a motherboard featureset war as well so this is good for everyone.