AMD has revealed today that the pre-orders for the 2nd generation AMD Ryzen desktop processors are now available along with their specifications.
What's also interesting, is that all processors across this range will now come with their AMD Wraith coolers, which are supposed to be quieter and offer better thermal performance and airflow over their earlier coolers. I can certainly attest to how terrible the coolers were on the FX series, extremely noisy and not amazing at actually keeping them cool, so this is a good move by AMD.
Here's the specifications and models that will be on offer from the information AMD just email us:
- Ryzen 7 2700X with 8 cores 16 threads, a 3.7 GHz base speed with a 4.3 GHz boost, a 20MB "Smart Prefetch Cache" with a 105W TDP plus the Wraith Prism (LED) cooler. It will be priced around $329.
- Ryzen 7 2700 also has 8 cores 16 threads, a 3.2 GHz base speed with a 4.1 GHz boost, a 20MB "Smart Prefetch Cache" with a 65W TDP plus the Wraith Spire (LED) cooler. It will be priced around $299.
- Ryzen 5 2600X with 6 cores and 12 threads, a 3.6 GHz base speed with a 4.2 GHz boost, a 19MB "Smart Prefetch Cache" with a 95W TDP plus the Wraith Spire cooler. It will be priced around $229.
- Ryzen 5 2600 also has 6 cores and 12 threads, a 3.4 GHz base speed with a 3.9 GHz boost, a 19MB "Smart Prefetch Cache" with a 65W TDP plus the Wraith Stealth cooler. The cheapest at around $199.
They will be using the new X470 chipset, so new motherboards will be launching alongside these new processors. AMD said in their press email that existing 300-series motherboards will also be compatible with a BIOS update. Some of the older series motherboards come shipped with this update, so look out for "Ryzen Desktop 2000 Ready" if you're not waiting on the X470 chipset.
It's quite likely my next CPU will be AMD, considering the price along with the many cores they're a damn good option now. It's going to be interesting to see how they perform on Linux.
Look to your favourite online store for the pre-order, if that's your thing. General availablity is expected around April 19th.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Apr 15, 2018
I am thinking about to make an incursion on the AMD territory...
The last time was in 2012, with very poor performance and some 32bit games refusing to work...
I am not a fanboy; I evaluate the long time cost-benefit..
At the end of the year 2014, in the war between Haswell vs Vishera, the best long time cost-benefit relationship was in favor of Haswell, that is way I purchased core i3 4170 (still working in a Gigabyte h97N-WIFI, with a GTX 750ti low profile, in my mother's PC with Ubuntu)
I would like to see a fair comparison using the same amount of cores, the same cpu clock speed, the same memory speed with the same latencies, between i3 and i5 vs Ryzen3 2200G.... Ryzen 5 2400G vs i7.. The single thread performance is very important...even today
The last time was in 2012, with very poor performance and some 32bit games refusing to work...
I am not a fanboy; I evaluate the long time cost-benefit..
At the end of the year 2014, in the war between Haswell vs Vishera, the best long time cost-benefit relationship was in favor of Haswell, that is way I purchased core i3 4170 (still working in a Gigabyte h97N-WIFI, with a GTX 750ti low profile, in my mother's PC with Ubuntu)
I would like to see a fair comparison using the same amount of cores, the same cpu clock speed, the same memory speed with the same latencies, between i3 and i5 vs Ryzen3 2200G.... Ryzen 5 2400G vs i7.. The single thread performance is very important...even today
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I am thinking about to make an incursion on the AMD territory...
The last time was in 2012, with very poor performance and some 32bit games refusing to work...
I evaluate the long time cost-benefit..
At the end of the year 2014, in the war between Haswell vs Vishera, the best long time cost-benefit relationship was in favor of Haswell, that is way I purchased core i3 4170 (still working in a Gigabyte h97N-WIFI, with a GTX 750ti low profile, in my mother's PC with Ubuntu)
I would like to see a fair comparison using the same amount of cores, the same cpu clock speed, the same memory speed with the same latencies, between i3 and i5 vs Ryzen3 2200G.... Ryzen 5 2400G vs i7.. The single thread performance is very important...even today
In my case only buy haswell for overclock, before highly influenced for single thread performance
Actually for consider next cpu upgrade need shows improvement around 50% more in single thread
Actually have 152 points (since 2014) in cinebech R15 single thread with my pentium G3258 at 4.1ghz
If appear any cpu with 220 points or more in cinebench R15 single thread will be change cpu (quad core cpu dont need more than this)
But with 10nm of intel must be improve temps and frecuencies and same situation must occur with 7nm of amd
Another issue with ryzen stay in single thread but specially with some apps case farcry 3
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43277
^_^
Last edited by mrdeathjr on 15 April 2018 at 2:15 am UTC
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Most modern games should depend less on single core performance, that's a thing of the past already.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Apr 15, 2018
Most modern games should depend less on single core performance, that's a thing from the past already.
I know, but what about legacy Linux games? All of them are OpenGL and that thing rely on the single core performance.
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Most modern games should depend less on single core performance, that's a thing from the past already.
I know, but what about legacy Linux games? All of them are OpenGL and that thing rely on the single core performance.
Yeah for disgrace legacy games and old games in wine need single thread so much
^_^
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Most modern games should depend less on single core performance, that's a thing from the past already.
I know, but what about legacy Linux games? All of them are OpenGL and that thing rely on the single core performance.
Not to the degree that they are unplayable. At least I didn't have any issues with older games on Ryzen 7 1700X.
Ryzen 2 can help there though, since they raised base clocks by default and it supports better boost.
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Arehandoro Apr 15, 2018
Could someone please explain me in plain English why the difference in W from the normal models to the X ones? From my ignorant point of view 30/40 extra Watios per model to get an extra boost of 0.2Ghz doesn't make sense at all, specially in the bill, unless there is something else to them?
TDP (Thermal Design Power) is not the amount of Watts its taking in, it's the thermal loss you have to get rid of by cooling. And as the TDP will rise exponential to the clock speed (I think... don't quote me on that... ;) ...), it explains the big steps in Watt.
Nice one, didn't have a clue about this. Appreciated!
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Comandante Ñoñardo Apr 15, 2018
Not to the degree that they are unplayable. At least I didn't have any issues with older games on Ryzen 7 1700X.
Ryzen 2 can help there though, since they raised base clocks by default and it supports better boost.
Not everyone can afford a powerful Ryzen 7... That is why the single core performance of a modest AMD Ryzen 3 vs Intel core i3 is so important for me..
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