AMD officially announce Ryzen 7 CPUs for launch on March 2nd

AMD will be officially releasing their Ryzen 7 CPUs on March 2nd, so there's not long to go! They can be pre-ordered right now too if you're that excited about it. Like with everything though, as always, I do recommend waiting and not pre-ordering anything. Wait for some real-world benchmarks.

You can watch the official announcement below:

The three processors in the Ryzen family that will be available first are:
- Ryzen 7 1800X: 8 cores/16 threads, 3.6 GHz, 4.0 GHz boost, 95W, $499
- Ryzen 7 1700X: 8 cores/16 threads, 3.4 GHz, 3.8 GHz boost, 95W, $399
- Ryzen 7 1700: 8 cores/16 threads, 3.0 GHz, 3.7 GHz boost, 65W, $329

They claim to have made a 52% improvement on instructions per clock, which is a massive leap when it comes to processors, truly incredible. Their original goal was aiming for a 40% increase, but they seem to have broken through their own target:


They also showed off some more of their own benchmarks:

Just take a moment to let that settle in. This is a $399 processor, from AMD, that is not only keeping up with, but just about beating a $1K+ processor from Intel. Now, I know these are their internal benchmarks and not to be completely trusted, but if it's even close to that it means these processors truly pack a punch worthy of gamers.

The processors sound really, really good. That price-point is pretty damn good too for 8 cores.

I imagine this is going to put AMD firmly back on the map, for everyone. This should make Intel sweat at least a little bit.

It's a good time to be a PC enthusiast. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.