AMD Ryzen Pinnacle Ridge Processors And 400 Chipset Could Launch in March

DLD

2018-01-04 15:10

Good news. DOWN with intel: let's not purchase any CPUs from them, for the certain period of time. Let's teach bullies a lesson. If we (customers) don't, who else will?

#5507201

Paulo Narciso

2018-01-04 15:22

For me the biggest obstacle right now for upgrading is the stupid high ddr4 prices. They cost more than the cpu itself.

#5507204

__hollywood|meo

2018-01-04 15:25

so they refined the process in one year for zen+? that sure is nice to hear! i hope they ironed out the wattage bump/surge past ~1.3v, as this blip/leakage/watever in the original process power consumption is certainly wats holding back clocks to the 4ghz range

#5507210

Alessio1989

2018-01-04 15:41

Paulo Narciso:

For me the biggest obstacle right now for upgrading is the stupid high ddr4 prices. They cost more than the cpu itself.

This, 8 years ago 16GB DDR3 1600 where a lot cheaper then 16GB DDR4 3200 today. And I am going to have a 32GiB RAM system when I will change my main desktop, but not today, I am not going to spend more money on RAM then CPU + MB combo, both high end.

#5507225

Dazzzzm8

2018-01-04 16:31

Will there be any Threadripper refreshes? Haven't heard anything on it.

#5507234

icedman

2018-01-04 16:50

I assume with Ryzen getting up to 16 cores it will effectively double up threadrippers core count.

#5507240

kruno

2018-01-04 17:03

Paulo Narciso:

For me the biggest obstacle right now for upgrading is the stupid high ddr4 prices. They cost more than the cpu itself.

High cost of DDR4 you say ... bah here is some "more good news":D:D https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/midrange-and-high-end-graphics-card-will-get-more-expensive.418780/#post-5507188

#5507245

rjpessoa

2018-01-04 17:14

I wonder if the chipset B350 will work with these new processors because they only mention X370.

#5507263

JamesSneed

2018-01-04 17:50

rjpessoa:

I wonder if the chipset B350 will work with these new processors because they only mention X370.

It will be an AGESA microcode update which has been the same across the B350 and X370 so I have high confidence the B350 boards will get the support.

#5507335

schmidtbag

2018-01-04 19:56

icedman:

I assume with Ryzen getting up to 16 cores it will effectively double up threadrippers core count.

I think you misread the chart. It said 16 threads, not cores. The core counts will likely be the same for AM4 and TR4.

#5507527

xIcarus

2018-01-05 09:42

Alessio1989:

This, 8 years ago 16GB DDR3 1600 where a lot cheaper then 16GB DDR4 3200 today. And I am going to have a 32GiB RAM system when I will change my main desktop, but not today, I am not going to spend more money on RAM then CPU + MB combo, both high end.

Yea this, I recently paid about 200EUR for my 16GB DDR4 3200 kit. 6 years ago when I purchased my Sandy build I paid less than 50EUR for 16GB DDR3 1333. I wanted to go 24 or 32GB but with these prices hell no, I'm good.

#5507529

Fox2232

2018-01-05 09:52

__hollywood|meo:

so they refined the process in one year for zen+? that sure is nice to hear! i hope they ironed out the wattage bump/surge past ~1.3v, as this blip/leakage/watever in the original process power consumption is certainly wats holding back clocks to the 4ghz range

I would rather see Clock stability being better at same voltage. You know, Pumping more Volts will still increase power consumption in linear way at best, and same goes with clock. So, reaching 4GHz at lower voltage is more important than allowing chip to work on 1.4V without nuclear meltdown. + another improvement in power efficiency will again boost notebooks.

#5507567

Octopuss

2018-01-05 12:25

I'm interested. Was originally looking at Intel's 8700K, but if the price is right and single core performance a bit better, I might go AMD after 15 years.

#5507598

Aura89

2018-01-05 14:19

__hollywood|meo:

so they refined the process in one year for zen+? that sure is nice to hear! i hope they ironed out the wattage bump/surge past ~1.3v, as this blip/leakage/watever in the original process power consumption is certainly wats holding back clocks to the 4ghz range

Not entirely sure it's fair to say "1" year, as in reality i'm sure they were working on future features/refinement/etc. before Ryzen originally released. But, again, this would not be Zen2

#5507837

varkkon

2018-01-06 08:28

Cool, I love my X399 mobo and 1950X Threadripper. Really looking forward to what AMD updates, not that I am going to upgrade my comp but still.

#5508042

Incredible Lama

2018-01-06 23:12

Any chance the 400 chipset will support quad channel memory?

Paulo Narciso:

For me the biggest obstacle right now for upgrading is the stupid high ddr4 prices. They cost more than the cpu itself.

This so much! I was so close to getting an 1900x with black friday, but I just couldn't justify the boatload of money I'd have to spend on the full package. Especially getting decent samsung b-die ram was painfull in regards to availibility here in Europe.

#5508080

sykozis

2018-01-07 02:50

The memory controller isn't part of the chipset, it's part of the CPU. The memory controller is unlikely to support quad channel memory since all we're looking at is a refresh product.

#5508084

Agonist

2018-01-07 03:11

Idk why non upper high end would be quad channel. Been that way with intel. X79 and X99 and X299 quad channel. Below that was dual channel. Should be the same with AMD. Personally, I cant wait to get the R5 1600 refresh. Ill be stocked to have it @ 4.2 with 12 threads. 1500x is just to tide me over. I got spoiled with 12 thread cpus, X5650@ 4.5 ghz and 3930k @ 4.6ghz before this 1500x.

#5508087

sykozis

2018-01-07 03:19

Agonist:

Idk why non upper high end would be quad channel. Been that way with intel. X79 and X99 and X299 quad channel. Below that was dual channel. Should be the same with AMD. Personally, I cant wait to get the R5 1600 refresh. Ill be stocked to have it @ 4.2 with 12 threads. 1500x is just to tide me over. I got spoiled with 12 thread cpus, X5650@ 4.5 ghz and 3930k @ 4.6ghz before this 1500x.

Why increase the production and sale price of a processor for quad channel? Show me 1 instance where it provides a proven, tangible benefit to consumers. Without using synthetic benchmarks.

#5508093

Agonist

2018-01-07 04:08

sykozis:

Why increase the production and sale price of a processor for quad channel? Show me 1 instance where it provides a proven, tangible benefit to consumers. Without using synthetic benchmarks.

I completely agree. I only saw a small difference with quad channel when using sli and crossfire while pushing 7680x1080 res with 3 21:9 monitors. Thats it. It seemed to really help the min fps. Thats the only reason I even got an X79 setup. A shit load of pcielanes and sata 6gb native. X58 lacked 3.0 pcie and native sata 6gb. And I went to ryzen because its new, I wanted an AMD rig again, and wanted m.2 support.