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JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Anyone seen this? Amd zen vs intel 6900k

https://youtu.be/Hr-5NM6cO8g

Now it is from an amd press conf but holy shitz if it performs like that when it launches with a cheap price tag. They are both running at the same clock speeds too @_@

I would love it to be true, for the sake of having healthy competition, but I'll wait until reviews before getting hyped for it.

Still, there are two things worth mentioning:

1-It's good that AMD has matched Intel's ipc (more than good, it's a miracle), but Intel's i7-6900K runs at 3.2/4.0 GHz, so it will still be faster.

2-The i7-6900K is rated at 140W. The 8-core/16-thread Zen CPU is rated at 95W.

Exactly.
AMD Hyped the crap out of the original Phenom... It fell short.
Then Phenom 2 which is what the Phenom should have been, but also fell short.
And then wen't nuts with hyping Bulldozer which was the largest dissapointment in the CPU world since the Pentium 4. :P

vivster said:

Teeqoz said:
Can't wait for Zen gaming benches and price. Hopefully it can help to push the price of CPUs a bit down

Do they really need to go down though? I doubt they have even changed that much in the last 5 years. That's while becoming even stronger and providing even better internal graphics. How often do you change a CPU that the price becomes relevant?

GPUs need to be upgraded much more often and their prices have exploded in comparison.

CPU prices have actually been increasing, not decreasing or stagnating.

My 3930K for instance I paid something like $450~ AUD almost half a decade ago.. And it's able to give the 6800K a good run for it's money which is priced at $650.
But my chips true successor is the 6850K which is $900.

Ignoring the fact my 3930K can overclock higher than all of them (5ghz) and thus out-perform them all anyway, hence why I haven't upgraded.