During AMD’s fourth-quarter earnings, CEO Lisa Su announced that its Ryzen CPU will be released this March, and its upcoming Vega GPU will be released in Q2 2017. We already knew that AMD plans to release Ryzen in the first quarter of 2017, however it’s good knowing that the CPU will be indeed releasing in March.
Su also claimed that there will be widespread system availability from day one for Ryzen, so PC gamers will be able to purchase it without encountering major availability issues.
It’s worth noting that according to the GDC 2017 session scheduler, AMD plans to release the Ryzen CPU during this year’s GDC event. AMD has not confirmed or denied this rumour as of yet. Naturally, take it with a grain of salt.
While AMD has not revealed yet the price of Ryzen, it did reveal that it already has plans for successors to Ryzen. Su referred to those successors as “Zen 2” and “Zen 3.”
It will be interesting to see whether Ryzen will be coming at a challenging price, and whether it will put some pressure to Intel (its latest Kabylake high-end CPU disappointed a lot of funs as it did not offer any significant performance boost over the Skylake counterpart).
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Go AMD
Nvidia must be happy to still have a couple months before having any kind of competition. God damn.
Yes and no. You have to remember that around 80% of gamers spend less than $300 on a graphics card. Nvidia certainly owns the high end, but mid-range and budget cards are anyone’s game.
They still have no competition in the 300$+ market. Amd time and time again proves one can not gain market share from just average products.
I could have sworn I just said that Nvidia owns the high end market.
Yeah you did but you made it sound like its not a big deal. A lot of people who spread word about technology buy the best and that means Amd isn’t on the list for now. Lot of my geeky friends even make fun of Amd like crazy and i’m the one having to stick up for Amd. RX 480 really does impress me but then again its at best a mediocre card for 1440P a resolution a lot of people are calling the new norm.
Ahh yea you’re right. I guess the 480x is competing well in it’s bracket. I’m REALLY curious to see
1. Performance of new amd top gpu
2. Price of said gpu
3. Comparison of said gpu with nvidia’s top gpu
Good times ahead!
Indeed, I’m excited to see what they come up with.
You better blow us all away AMD!
Can i have a new decent amd cpu for a good price? If not when will that happen?
March, that’s what the article was about -.-
let the disappointments begin
Which Zen CPUs though? Only SR7 (the ridiculously expensive 8/16 thing they’ve shown off that competes with the 6900K) or the relevant models (SR3 and 5) as well? There have been rumors about a split release.
They’ve stated a few times in conference calls they want to have them all released at the same time. SR3 4/8, sr5 8/8. There will not be a 6 core available, at least right away, due to the way the architecture is designed.
I saw a tweet that there will be a 6c/12t due to some defects in the 8c/16t just like Intel does.
Yes, but the difference is Zen is built off of two quad core modules on the same fabric. So you cannot have 3 cores on one and 4 on another, etc. On both 3 cores need to be operational with one defective/disabled. The reason why this is important is because it will drastically reduce the availability of 6 cores, especially on release.
Zen is not module based no?
Not in the same sense as CMT bulldozer. But it is 2 4 core modules on the same fabric. Each core has dedicated resources.
How is it ridiculously expensive if we don’t know the price?
The Intel CPU costs around 1k, right? So AMD has no reason to price that thing much lower, if it can indeed compete. I’d say over 500 dollars/euros for a CPU is “ridiculously expensive”.
Right, I understand what you’re saying. I’m hoping their top end hits between $500-600.
isn’t that pretty much expected already? if we are lucky we might get them on early Q2. if not we might get them on june 29th just like polaris.
I can always count on Bob for a prime example of weaponized autism.
Eh I’ll just wait for Navi for me.
amd is about to wreck intel/nvidia..lol
All I want is a new GPU/CPU that’s better than my 980/i5 4670k, at a cheaper price, because Intel and Nvidia certainly aren’t giving me the best value and perf with their current offerings.