Monday, March 27th 2017
AMD Ryzen 12-Core, 24-Thread CPU Surges on SiSoftware Sandra
In an interesting report that would give some credence to reports of AMD's take on the HEDT market, it would seem that some Ryzen chips with 12 Cores and 24 Threads are making the rounds. Having an entire platform built for a single processor would have always beenludicrous; now, AMD seems to be readying a true competitor to Intel's X99 and its supposed successor, X299 (though AMD does have an advantage in naming, if its upcoming X399 platform really does ship with that naming scheme.)
The CPU itself is an engineering sample, coded 2D2701A9UC9F4_32/27_N. Videocardz did a pretty god job on explaining what the nomenclature means, but for now, we do know this sample seems to be running at 2.7 GHz Base, and 3.2 GHz Boost clocks (not too shabby for a 12-core part, but a little on the anemic side when compared to previous reports on a 16-Core chip from AMD that would run at 3.1 GHz Base and 3.6 GHz Boost clocks.) What seems strange is the program's report on the available cache. 8x 8 MB is more than double what we would be expecting, considering that these 12-core parts probably make use of a die with 3 CCX's with 4x cores each, which feature 8 MB per CCX. So, 3 CCX's = 3x 8 MB, not 8x 8 MB, but this can probably be attributed to a software bug, considering the engineering-sample status of the chip.
Source:
Videocardz
72 Comments on AMD Ryzen 12-Core, 24-Thread CPU Surges on SiSoftware Sandra
The IPC and raw clocks is what matters and so far Intel still has that advantage.
However, competition is good and I hope AMD can get something out that is faster than Intel.
edit: and you should know what segment it's aimed at, since you are using a hexacore Xeon
A common issue with people at PC enthusiast forums is that their whole PC experience revolve around gaming and gaming only.
And for the likes of me gaming at 4k that statement is total shit(go read up) , the 7700k is without doubt the best pure gaming cpu IF your at 1080p and by and large only play dx11 era games , welcome to the future yo,
the futures full of cores and im sorry mate, but theres feck all you dual and quad core loving crazy people can do about it, well you could get into retro gaming from here on in.
so an intel and apple fanboy , wow who knew they existed.
oh and amd know about raw clocks , my old cpu can still game at 5ghz (im sure ryzen(2,3) will get there)
and they certaintly have an eye on that IPC crown to put in the cupboard with the pawned on efficiency cup and the innovation cup as well as the price performance cup
Catch / create gossips.
Cite them as "anonymous sources" or "our sources"
Create articles outta ass.
Make it sound like doom and gloom.
New truth is born.
Sometimes, people are being callous, but sometimes they'really just being human.
Great story still.
inappropriate wording....are you a child? Grow up.
EDIT: Its sad that it came from someone using a Xeon.
The i7700k would be a waste of my money for my use case ( gaming + abusing hardware anyway I can) . So my upgrade path at the moment is Intel or Amd 8 cores +. I'm seriously tempted to get the 16 core 32 thread hedt part if it turns out to be real and no more than twice the price of 1800x.
We're also hitting a kinda hard limit of what's possible with Silicon in terms of transistor size, we might get 7nm but I'm not holding my breath, we're at that point where not only is it hard to keep transistors in an off state because the electrons can jump the gap between the anode and cathode the wires( in chip) are so small that extra volts could just straight up burn them out.
So with that in mind more cores is going to be all we're likely to get now rather than much more power.
That i7700k could potentially really start to lag behind if hardware industry is being forced to move away from IPC and clock speeds. :) Have to admit though I'm no industry analyst but certainly seems we're heading into the many cores era.More cores equals more gigahertz, haven't you been on ebay?
The 1800x will be sold as a 32 ghz cpu ( possibly 64 if they count hyper threading lol)
Some posts can't be used with multiple sources, when there is a single original source (either by leak or exclusive report). Others can. I'm not saying I always do one thing or the other, 100% correctly, but, there are always examples for one side, like yours, or mine.
There are also times when one can't answer, by forgetfulness or lack of time. Regarding your LPP and LPE hint, I did search, and found multiple reports claiming that the original Polaris was using LPP. Also, multiple reports that it was to use LPE. But all recent reports regarding the Polaris refresh mentioned how it was to use an LPP process. So, I chose to run with it.Borrow was originally "Steal".Sure =) Whatever you say, bro.
Edit: merged double posts.
"Real man uses real core."
So, yeah, it's here to stay. I reckon it will take extra 20 years for 32bit to be fully phased out.
4gb system ram still works now.
Server side though? People still run on 256mb ram with stripped down unix on the cheap.