We all pretty much know that PC gamers are looking forward to AMD’s Ryzen CPUs that will be released in early May March 2017. And while the red team has not revealed any official benchmarks or prices yet, the first gaming-related benchmark (if you can call 3DMark a gaming benchmark application that is) has been leaked online.
Videocardz revealed the first 3D Mark Fire Strike benchmark for AMD’s Ryzen CPUs. While we don’t know the actual models, we do know that the AMD Ryzen: ZD3406BAM88F4_38/34_Y is an eight-core CPU, the AMD Ryzen: ZD3301BBM6IF4_37/33_Y is a six-core CPU, and the AMD Ryzen: ZD3201BBM4KF4_34/32_Y is a quad-core CPU.
We’ve already reported the possible available models for AMD’s Ryzen CPUs, as well as the rumoured prices so be sure to check our previous articles about AMD’s upcoming Ryzen CPUs.
According to the leaked 3D Mark Fire Strike benchmark, AMD’s Ryzen eight-core CPU – overclocked at 4Ghz – is almost as fast as Intel’s ten-core i7 6950X CPU; a CPU that costs $1700. With its stock clocks, AMD’s Ryzen eight-core CPU is almost as fast as Intel’s i7 6900K; a CPU that costs $1199.
If these results are legit, if that eight-core model is AMD’s high-end Ryzen product, the AMD R7 1800X, and if it is indeed priced at the $499-699 mark, then we can safely say that AMD has brought a product that will put to shame Intel’s high-end offerings (especially when it comes to the performance/price ratio).
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wait, May?
I think that he meant March (in fact I’ve even been hearing rumblings of very, very late February).
Obviously March, fixed
This is highly impressive when you consider the Price for AMD over what Intel wants. I mean If these CPU’s are as cheap as sites / youtubers are saying then Intel is going to have to drop the $1600 + CPU BS
they will hav to sell 6900k at 400 and 6950x at 500 euros.
Why would they. The $1600 cpu’s are aimed at pro’s who makes a living with their computers. Customers who don’t build their own machines and write the cost off on their taxes. Some of you need to learn not all computers are used for gaming. Until Dell, HP and Apple start producing Ryzen servers and workstation Intel nothing to fear.
I called it December that Ryzen 3.4Ghz would come in at under 400 US and I am stickling to it. AMD knows for a fact with their current name brand recognition the need to come in at a price that will make consumers say” Wow! Why get an Intel 7700k at that price when I can just spend 400 and get a way better chip.” If the price AMD were to set is too close to the offerings from intel as a match for match tier wise they won’t win a sale.
AMD needs to build brand recognition again before charging over 500 for a cpu. It’s simple marketing economics.
Just as a curiosity I went and look for the price for the 6950x around here and it floats around 2.500~3.000 Trump Dollars give or take.
I expect this new AMDs arriving at around 1.500 Trump Bucks.
Would still be awful considering the sh*t that goes on around here, but with this perf/price ratio still a no brainer.
Where do you live and the prices are so high? i just checked prices and 6950x here in greece costs 1800 euros
Motherlovin’ Brazil.
Hey, we’re almost neighbors, I live in Uruguay 😛
I’m buying a Ryzen CPU and there isn’t anything anyone can do to stop me.
I and my foot ninjas can stop you. But i am also buying a 8 core ryzen cpu too soon but i have not decided if i buy 1700x or 1700.
The 1500’s are actually clocked higher, according to some sources (less cores = less heat = higher clock speeds). I might actually pick one up for the gaming advantage.
My FX8350 goes to my father and an 8 core Ryzen will be its substitute. Probably a R7 1700X or R7 1700.
Similar situation here. I picked up an 8320 when they first launched. I’ve been waiting a long, long time for this…
I never could bring myself to pay the Intel tax.
Same here, bought an 8320, OCed to 4.4Ghz and held on to it. It’s a shame, now that the 8 cores FXs are starting to perform well in multithreaded game engines, but I think it’s time for a change.
It is a shame. It’s really a fast CPU, but games never really figured out how to use it, until recently anyway. The thought of combining the high IPC of Intel with the many Cores of Bulldozer does sound amazing though. It’s really the best of both worlds.
Yeah. Another rumor has surfaced recently. A six-core Ryzen 5 1600X is about 50% faster than a Core i5 7600K (Intel’s offering in the same price range), and on par with a Core i7 6850K in single threaded performance.
That’s just crazy.
If one looks at the 4 core and the clock speed and compares it to the 7700K one can tell Amd is only behind 10% or so in IPC compared to kaby-lake meaning haswell level of IPC.
Scores 39.6% lower while having a clock speed disadvantage of 31.25%.
The cheapest 8 core 16 threads one looks good, i wonder at how much it will be priced after 6 months, i guess i’ll buy one and oc it to 4.5ghz .
this new 8 core Ryzen may allow thousands more to afford a quality 4K video editing rig which was out of reach with intel. vega may also provide significant savings as well.
Adobe should wise up and end the NVidia monoply concerning GPU acceleration with Premiere Pro and fix it so AMD will work as well.