Anyone looking for an update to their CPU that didn't quite jump on the Coffee Lake/Zen/Zen+ bandwagon is likely paying close attention to AMD's upcoming Zen 2 CPUs. The
upcoming AMD processors will finally leave the company ahead of Intel in terms of manufacturing process for the first time in years, and will bring about AMD's new vision for HCC desktop processors in a chiplet design. With the release of Zen 2 set for 2019 (
probably around Computex), and its launch being of such importance to AMD, it isn't that surprising that some promotions/teases are already popping up.
The tease in question was posted by an AMD-contracted Sales agency in South Korea, which launched a campaign inviting users to guess Cinebench scores for upcoming AMD processors: namely, the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 5 3600X - thus confirming the nomenclature for AMD's upcoming CPUs. The contest finishes on December 14th, and is basically asking users to take a gander on scores for unreleased CPUs - promising prizes of said CPUs when they launch.
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Oh, and Intel is with a capital letter.
60% of users are at 1080p. I would also bet good money says most refresh rate is 60hz. I'll bet 51% of users here, who many would argue are enthusiasts, dont use 144hz monitors. Sorry, on those points at least, you are wrong.
Ryzen 7nm 4,6ghz will tho. And no more reasons to go intel.
This does not bode well, they are in big trouble.
At this point they may as well just ditch 10nm, unless it's very close to everybody else's 7nm.
This new Zen 2 needs to be a game changer.
AMD needs this really bad. Hopefully they play there cards right. Can't Wait, and the AMD Hired Agency is a great idea.
AMD won't charge any sort of premium (unless you count the top binned parts, but that's every CPU as of late) no matter how good it is. They have to murder intel in the next 2 yrs, plus the chips are plenty cheap to produce.
Intel is in serious problem, from what we know their 10nm uarch is still monolithic, and by the time intel launches first 10nm product AMD will move to Zen 3/2+ with 7nm+ EUV (second gen 7nm)
so if intel with late 2020 product can only beat AMD early 2019 product, its nothing to be happy about
Also, I overclocked samsung b-die on 8700k to CAS 13-14-14 3200, AMD can barely keepy 3200 CAS 14 stable, and I know several people who couldn't even use XMP on ryzen and paid for 3200 CAS 14 ram only to have to run it at 2933 cas 14. I think DDR5 ram and infinity fabric is when AMD will dominate, but we will see, long time away. hopefully in the Spring AMD finally can win me over and be number 1 in the benchmarks at 1080p 240hz, I am a little impressed by 2700x, but overall would still buy a 9600k right now if I were in the market for a new chip. in some games the min fps is 15-20 fps better than ryzen, and that is a huge different at 1440p when every frame matters for smoothness on drops
As for the difference between Intel & Ryzen currently @1440p, it's little-to-nothing unless using a $1,200+ 2080 Ti, and occasionally the $700 2080(1080 Ti). Those GPU's are not main-stream products, and anything lesser than those @1440p get virtually identical FPS in most games, as the games become GPU bound.