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AMD Ryzen Thread: Affordable Core Act

Neizel

Member
GTAV seems like a real mofo. It scales well to lots of cores, but seems really sensitive in 99th percentile.

I'd really like to see watch dogs 2 to get another open world benchmark.

It scales well with more cores for avg but the game needs high frequency cores too and memory bandwidth.

In short needs the best you can afford.
 
A fuel pump is $50-100 and takes 30-45 mins to install. I think you can still afford the 1700X.
Unless the car has it inside the fuel tank instead of on the line. Then labor is a pain in the ass as it's not something the regular Joe owner can easily replace.
 
Do we know what video card they were using for that? I'm wanting to make the jump to 1440p here after upgrading my CPU from a 2500.

According to that thread on Reddit, GTX 1070 for the 1440p tests.

"Q2" for the Ryzen 5 chips.

I'm still tempted to wait just a little while to see if R5 1600X benchmarks leak soon. I wouldn't mind paying less for two less cores, especially if that means it overclocks better.
 

Kayant

Member
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https://twitter.com/GamersNexus/status/837026790526881797

From - https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5wybr8/gamers_nexus_amds_last_minute_changes_to_testing/
 

Thraktor

Member
Here's 51 slides that might be going away soon, so look at them/download them ASAP:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By7_TCzoyL9oejlBV1R0WVdKMkU/view

Interesting tidbits:
####X = XFR*
#### = Standard desktop CPU
####G = DT (dual thread?) with GFX
####T = low power desktop
####S = low power desktop with GFX
####H = high performance mobile
####U = standard mobile
####M = low power mobile

*X models have 2x XFR head room over non-X models

DT likely means desktop here.

It's interesting that they seem to be using the Ryzen branding across both their stand-alone CPUs and their APUs. If I'm not mistaken they've kept the branding separate for a long time now.
 

ZOONAMI

Junior Member
I'm pretty tempted to upgrade my Xeon 1231v3 to a Ryzen just to support AMD, but I don't know that it's worth essentially an entire rebuild (CPU, mobo, ram).
 
Is that good or bad?
We don't know yet and probably won't know until tomorrow. JayzTwoCents has already said his Ryzen review will be a couple days late.

I think a lot of this has to do with the constant BIOS updates that has been done to motherboards. It's becoming more and more obvious that Ryzen was a forced launch and motherboard manufacturers are trying to catch up.
 

Skux

Member
I love these prices but they're still pretty steep for midrange gamers.

If AMD can introduce an i5 killer with the R5 line, it's gonna be a bloodbath.
 

Datschge

Member
Here's 51 slides that might be going away soon, so look at them/download them ASAP:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By7_TCzoyL9oejlBV1R0WVdKMkU/view

Interesting tidbits:
####X = XFR*
#### = Standard desktop CPU
####G = DT (dual thread?) with GFX
####T = low power desktop
####S = low power desktop with GFX
####H = high performance mobile
####U = standard mobile
####M = low power mobile

*X models have 2x XFR head room over non-X models
Hm, didn't notice it before but the lack of any mobile version specifically mentioning GFX likely means all mobile versions are APUs. And Ryzen Mobile was already announced for H2.
 

spwolf

Member
We don't know yet and probably won't know until tomorrow. JayzTwoCents has already said his Ryzen review will be a couple days late.

I think a lot of this has to do with the constant BIOS updates that has been done to motherboards. It's becoming more and more obvious that Ryzen was a forced launch and motherboard manufacturers are trying to catch up.

as supposed to what other launches? intel has had many screwups last few years.
 

Thraktor

Member
Hm, didn't notice it before but the lack of any mobile version specifically mentioning GFX likely means all mobile versions are APUs. And Ryzen Mobile was already announced for H2.

There's almost no demand for mobile CPUs without integrated graphics. The vast majority of laptops sold don't have dedicated GPUs, and even for those that do the ability to switch to integrated graphics under low workloads gives you a longer battery life.

I was kind of hoping they'd break from this and release 8C/16T laptop chips without integrated graphics for the mobile workstation market (as Summit Ridge seems energy efficient enough to work in a mobile form-factor), but sadly I'd say laptop chips will be limited to 4C/8T.
 

DPB

Member
So whats the difference between the 1700, 1700x, and 1800x? Just base clock?

AFAIK, the non-X models don't support "Extended Frequency Range" which apparently is automatic overclocking akin to a graphics card's boost mode. They all still have unlocked multipliers though, so manual overclocking is still possible.
 
as supposed to what other launches? intel has had many screwups last few years.
I mean yeah, Broadwell-E launch had a huge amount of problems. Same with Skylake.

For the most part it is par for course but the thing that bothers me is the fact that BIOS updates has been rolling out every single day affecting the performance of Ryzen. It's a great thing for the consumer but bad for reviewers right now because they have been constantly re-doing tests.

I think everything will work out fine in the end though.
 

Irobot82

Member
I mean yeah, Broadwell-E launch had a huge amount of problems. Same with Skylake.

For the most part it is par for course but the thing that bothers me is the fact that BIOS updates has been rolling out every single day affecting the performance of Ryzen. It's a great thing for the consumer but bad for reviewers right now because they have been constantly re-doing tests.

I think everything will work out fine in the end though.

Didn't the Broadwell-E motherboards from MSI or something actually kill chips?

Edit: I usually take it safe and get second gen on a socket so I know most of the kinds are worked out. Like Ivy Bridge after Sandy Bridge. Intels last few chips have been on the same Socket so generally you know they are safer bets.
 

Datschge

Member
There's almost no demand for mobile CPUs without integrated graphics. The vast majority of laptops sold don't have dedicated GPUs, and even for those that do the ability to switch to integrated graphics under low workloads gives you a longer battery life.
Sure, but somehow I expected them to take longer with the APUs and fill the time with plain CPUs even for laptops. Especially with the previous comment that Zen based semi-custom solutions (which are all adaptions of APUs) are beyond this year.

AFAIK, the non-X models don't support "Extended Frequency Range" which apparently is automatic overclocking akin to a graphics card's boost mode. They all still have unlocked multipliers though, so manual overclocking is still possible.
TC McQueen's listing says all models support XFR, but the X versions offer double the headroom for it to exploit.

Edit: Relevant slide:
 

Thraktor

Member
Sure, but somehow I expected them to take longer with the APUs and fill the time with plain CPUs even for laptops. Especially with the previous comment that Zen based semi-custom solutions (which are all adaptions of APUs) are beyond this year.

Yeah, they did have Ryzen Mobile on a slide for this year, but they may be able to squeeze it in towards the end of the year. A single APU die (4C, RX460ish GPU) would be enough to cover a wide range of SKUs across desktop and laptop, which may be the route they're going (similar with a single Summit Ridge die covering all their GPU-less Ryzen CPUs).
 

Invis

Member

pooptest

Member
I have the 16-16-16 RAM. It works, so ya, get that.

You're not going to notice a difference, but for $3 to get equal. sure.

Ordered. Thanks!

What's a common CPU cooler people are getting? All I have left to order is that and a case.
 

Renekton

Member
I mean yeah, Broadwell-E launch had a huge amount of problems. Same with Skylake.

For the most part it is par for course but the thing that bothers me is the fact that BIOS updates has been rolling out every single day affecting the performance of Ryzen. It's a great thing for the consumer but bad for reviewers right now because they have been constantly re-doing tests.

I think everything will work out fine in the end though.
I remember Phenom and Bulldozer had interesting bugs, the former needed a CPU revision. Best wait at least 3 weeks for reviewers to pick out any long term issue.
 

tehbible

Member
still waiting on full GAMING benchmarks. can care less about synthetic benchmarks.

CS:GO at 720p low settings is NOT a good testing benchmark.

I've already seen one leaked benchmark showing sub 30 min fps in GTA V. If the min fps for AAA games are much lower than intel's it's a fail for me.
 

Mr Swine

Banned
No👎 no 👋 nO👊 NO👇 don't trust anything from Wccftech.

Yeah, this so much. When the real benchmarks come out and show the opposite then everyone will go

"Oh I dun goofed Gaf"

"AMD still stay loosing"

"Bu bu bu those leaks!?"
 
still waiting on full GAMING benchmarks. can care less about synthetic benchmarks.

CS:GO at 720p low settings is NOT a good testing benchmark.

I've already seen one leaked benchmark showing sub 30 min fps in GTA V. If the min fps for AAA games are much lower than intel's it's a fail for me.


Surely CS:GO at 720p would expose the miniscule fps differences between CPUs better than trying to using GTA5.

I don't know what some of you are expecting. Playing games at 1080p or above using a card on the level of 1060, 470, 970, 390X, 1070 etc, the differences between Ryzen and a 7700K or even a 4790K are going to be utterly irrelevent and fps will be indistinguishable.

Minimum frames will be the same. In terms of average fps, you'd need a Titan X and play at 720p to expose differences, and even then these 3-8 fps differences are not detectable by tge human eye.
 
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