Thursday, December 29th 2016
AMD's Upcoming Ryzen Chips to Reportedly Overclock @ 5 GHz On Air
French hardware magazine "CANARD PC HARDWARE" has apparently confirmed that AMD's upcoming Ryzen chips will be able to achieve overclocks of at least 5 GHz on air, if an easter egg hidden on the magazine's Ryzen feature. On page 10 of the digital magazine (which you can look at on the provided link) as well as the physical version, a cryptic string of binary code can be found on top of the page (for reference, the string is as follows: 010110100110010101101110010011110100001101000000010000010110100101110010001111010011010101000111). When you paste this string of binary code on any online binary to plain text converter, you get a revelation that's sure to put a little more coal on the hype train's furnace: ZenOC@Air=5G.
Apparently, the entire article is premised on an early engineering sample that the magazine managed to put its hands on - so we're not even talking about final-stepping silicon. Granted, the information, left as more of an Easter egg tease than a reveal onto itself, raises more questions than it answers (as any good, hype-generating event always does): at what voltage were the 5 GHz achieved at? How many cores did the Ryzen sample possess? Were they all operational? Was it a stable overclock? If so, for how long? What cooling solution was used?
There are potentially many more questions left unanswered by this tease, but nevertheless, this seems like a good sign for the Ryzen bandwagon.
Sources:
Reddit; user lolwut996633, Reddit; user DotaldTrump
There are potentially many more questions left unanswered by this tease, but nevertheless, this seems like a good sign for the Ryzen bandwagon.
90 Comments on AMD's Upcoming Ryzen Chips to Reportedly Overclock @ 5 GHz On Air
There is a huge difference between expecting another athlon 64 and expecting another athlon XP.
unless, of course, intel makes the same mistake again, or a different, even more extreme mistake.So, aside from your terrible grammar, where do their interests lie? AMD's main markets for their CPUs are desktop, laptop, servers, and embedded. And guess what? You need a competitive CPU arch to sell in those areas.
Servers are not going away anytime soon, neither are full computers, no matter how much you believe that tablets will replace them. So where is the market going, exactly, that AMD can just afford to throw away the x86 market?
Also from an investment standpoint (Tesla stock owner, Panasonic, to name a couple) just looking at AMD's market cap is dismal I mean Intel has been basically printing money over the years while AMD releases 2 year old products, and it doesn't help that AMD has let many intelligent engineers go because of cuts :/
Or are you saying the only time you could trust AMD is if they were as powerful and anticompetitive as nvidia?
And there really hasn't been much competition to warrant it as such in my opinion, but a 1A, 1B option from Intel/nVidia to AMD/ATI
Coming from a first time Nvidia card owner and it is truly the way it's meant to be played (manipulating the games drivers to favour their cards or not it's smooth and no microstutters from my past Radeon cards :p
To be one of the best in the world at something you gotta have the best products, unfortunately it was always Intel, and looking at all the other Pro gamers who want the best, not second best, they go Intel/nvidia, as of late that will change.
My 6950s were great along with the 7970s and 290X. The problems I did have were not relegated to AMD as those games were just unoptimized and buggy.
Edit: 6950s (flashed to 6970 too).
Great for you, not for me. Personally a bad experience or two isn't part of my agenda no stress, im not paying 400 dollars for a product that dies on me after 2 years. Sorry.
Anyway, this is about Ryzen, dodgy name, overclocker's dream. :eek:
Eventhough I in NO way have to put up arguments (because you have provided non to argue against);
>AMDs stock have gone up like a rocket the last 10 mounths (+461% since april)
>zen have shown NOTHING but promise from the ANY manufacture and.
>zen is designed by the man who designed the reason Intel have been ahead in 7 years. (iX series)
>AMD have closed agreements consoles china and CERN (shows crazy scalability)
>New management
>first surplus in like 7 years and have payed of debt.
>marketshare is turning (or so it seems on both GFX and CPU.)
Im sure that there is tons of other arguments countering your zero knockouts (call it raging but I am so sick and tired of people not supporting their claims on the internet).
It was AMD who stated that OC's on AIR would be possible up to 4.0 to 4.5Ghz.
You should always remember that magazines are the OLD media.. and OLD media sometimes do PR stunts to get their sales and PR boosted up again.
Take it with a grain of salt, and stop publishing this sort of stuff without REAL confirmation.