Tuesday, April 11th 2017
AMD Starts Selling the Ryzen 5 Processor Family
AMD Ryzen 5 series desktop processors are officially available from today. The lineup is designed to compete with Intel's Core i5 quad-core "Kaby Lake" processor family, and consists of 6-core and 4-core parts carved out of the 14 nm "Summit Ridge" silicon. The lineup begins with the $169 Ryzen 5 1400 and $189 Ryzen 5 1500X quad-core parts, featuring SMT that enable 8 logical CPUs, 8 MB of L3 cache, unlocked multipliers, and XFR on the 1500X. The 1400 is clocked at 3.20 GHz with 3.40 GHz boost, while the 1500X ticks at 3.50 GHz with 3.70 GHz boost, and XFR enabling higher automatic overclocks.
While the Ryzen 5 1400 and 1500X compete with Core i3 and Core i5 "Kaby Lake" models under $200; the $219 Ryzen 5 1600 and $249 1600X six-core parts target the Core i5-7600K, with their 6 cores, 12 threads, 16 MB of L3 caches, and unlocked multipliers. The 1600 is clocked at 3.20 GHz with 3.60 GHz boost, while the 1600X ticks at 3.60 GHz core and 4.00 GHz boost. All four chips are available immediately.
While the Ryzen 5 1400 and 1500X compete with Core i3 and Core i5 "Kaby Lake" models under $200; the $219 Ryzen 5 1600 and $249 1600X six-core parts target the Core i5-7600K, with their 6 cores, 12 threads, 16 MB of L3 caches, and unlocked multipliers. The 1600 is clocked at 3.20 GHz with 3.60 GHz boost, while the 1600X ticks at 3.60 GHz core and 4.00 GHz boost. All four chips are available immediately.
13 Comments on AMD Starts Selling the Ryzen 5 Processor Family
But I have this slight tingle in my toes that Intel really feels this way:
Good.
Now we wait for RyZen 9
Just wondering: when they showed the stability part, it was running blender, heaven, and 2 handbrake encoding @ the same time, i believe.
If this is possible to make into a repeateable kinda thing, it would be an interesting "benchmark" and it would be very interesting to see how comparable (core / thread, both AMD and Intel) CPUs would run with, time wise. If a CPU were to have any sort of "hiccups", the difference in overall time would be quite huge.
There is already such a thing, basically. ASUS RealBench. Heavy Multitasking benchmark, plays a HD video while encoding a HD video, compresses data and processes images, all at once. It's what I use for stability testing. If it passes 10 loops of it, the system is fine. For CPU alone I only use H.264 in 10 loops.
AMD made a lot of improvements to their architecture and they're at least back on the map but unfortunately completely missed the mark.
I want AMD to make good money, so that they can afford proper R&D and good climate inside the company that was starving for years.
Lack of any sort of news on Vega look grim (and the last news being that 500mm2 Vega can beat 314mm2 Pascal in Doom didn't inspire either).
I guess it isn't being released with Prey, we are lucky if it comes with E3Wooot?
PS
Oh, I see it now (1080p gaming on 1080Ti):
www.computerbase.de/2017-04/amd-ryzen-5-test/2/#abschnitt_spiele_full_hdhd
good luck with that though, you'll need it.
I can understand comments about the value of Pentium G4650, but 7100? Really? Never mind the comparison with the 1400.