AMD RYZEN Demo Event - Beats $1,100 8-Core i7-6900K, With Lower TDP

[ratirt]

If indeed the rizen can match the i7-6900k, then Intel will down its price to about $800, so that the rizen price should be about $700 when it releases.

Is that a statement or assumption?

 

[Nergal]

Is that a statement or assumption?

Could very well be a statement.
Since as long as I can remember, Intel and NV have adjusted pricing as follows.

Take their piece of hardware that is (slightly) performing slower than AMD´s equivalent and ask 10% more for it.
Initially, it can vary, but when the dust has settled down, that is what the user is left with.

aka paying premium for something.

Is what Audi did; still can´t get my head wrapped around why people would consider Audi premium.

 

[pikunsia]

Is that a statement or assumption?

Of course it is a conjecture.

 

[ratirt]

Of course it is a conjecture.

Ok but you still don't know what the price for Ryzen will be and what sort of CPU's AMD will release since we know there wont be just one Ryzen 8c/16 but different options. I only hope AMD will stop at 6c/12t as the lowest and move on from there.

 

[Frick]

I only hope AMD will stop at 6c/12t as the lowest and move on from there.

Would not make sense. A 6c/12t part might exist, but it will not be the lowliest Ryzen. That will either be 4c/8t or maybe even 2c/4t. I'd definitely take an overclockable 2c/4t CPU if the price is good enough and the overclocking motherboards are not much more expensive than the base models. 3c/6t ... I dunno, I find it unlikely. It would be nice though, especially if that was the base model, but that depends on how the CPU is designed I guess.

 

[ratirt]

Would not make sense. A 6c/12t part might exist, but it will not be the lowliest Ryzen. That will either be 4c/8t or maybe even 2c/4t. I'd definitely take an overclockable 2c/4t CPU if the price is good enough and the overclocking motherboards are not much more expensive than the base models. 3c/6t ... I dunno, I find it unlikely. It would be nice though, especially if that was the base model, but that depends on how the CPU is designed I guess.

Probably yes but i'd think that if AMD's idea is to kick Intel's butt then 6c as the lowest option would be great idea. That would kill i3 which is very likely both as low end pc. Getting 6c with double the IPC or at least way better than I3 for similar price would be great and AMD would rise up on the market. There's always other stuff like cpu frequency to adjust speed. Considering more and more applications now-days use multi-thread it's an option. It is maybe my wishful thinking but who knows