AMD Ryzen Full Lineup Prices, Specs & Clock Speeds Leaked

[Mafioso]

haxxiy said:

Mafioso said:

Due to how long its taking for Ryzen to come out , while i don't question their value across the spectrum, i am confused as to the legs it will have coming to market just matching Broadwell architecture.

Everyone knows Intel's consumer level I7's tend to have always lead in gaming performance over the 6-8 core Extreme variants time and time again, so while Intel's ticks have been unimpressive for major upgrades, truth is there will be Coffee Lake come fall with another 15% IPC improvement.

Right now Ryzen at launch has a 14-15%  deficit of single threaded performance to Kaby lake, and that will double with Coffee Lake.

You do know the IPC improvement from Skylake to Kaby Lake was statistically zero, right? That is, indistinguishable from the margin of error from most reviews. The only thing that went up was clock speeds, which brought power consumption up accordingly everywhere except for the mobile chips - were Kaby Lake indeed was somewhat better than Skylake.

Intel hasn't a IPC improvement in the double digits since Sandy Lake or maybe even Nehalem, depending on the application, though there was a jump for certain HPC-specific tasks when AVX-2 came out. Mark my words that you will be massively disappointed, if you expect Coffee Lake to be anything but Skylake at ~20% higher clocks and a power consumption above 100W for the 4-cores.

 

I haven't been impressed in years enough to upgrade, why is why my expectations are tamed for Ryzen. My point is Intel has yearly drops that will move the needle in their favor and keep fresh product in the chain at the respective price points.

Good upgrade path for i3 and FX platform folks that could use the FPS delta. I just dont see why anyone with an unlocked i5 or i7 of the last 4 years has any real reason to upgrade in 2017.