Pemalite said:
You need to go back farther. AMD made having more than 4 threads/cores affordable for everyone a good 7+ years ago when they dropped the Phenom 2 x6 1035/1045/1055/1060/1090/1100 chips. - I had several of those chips. Once you pushed the NB and Core clocks up, they really started to come into their own and could give Nahelem a run for it's money.
I said it before we knew any details about Ryzen, heck before we knew it was going to be called Ryzen...
I am counting on it to be honest. If they can bring down their 10 core chip prices to $700 AUD I am making the move to LGA2066 and moving away from LGA2011. $1500 is way to high.
More to a platform than just the CPU though. Which is something you need to keep in mind. |
True, Phenom II X6 and Bulldozer 6xxx and 8xxx came before, but they don't come close to Intel's performance anymore. The X6 gets trashed by and Core i5 even in applications that can fully utilize all 6 cores, and the Bulldozer also barely can keep up with the i5 in most cases, heck in most games, Bulldozer get's beaten by an i3
Clock speeds will be a problem throughout Ryzen's existence if they keep with LPP (Low Power Plus) Process. Pinnacle Ridge should alleviate this somewhat but not enough to keep up with Cofeve Late ehm... Coffee lake
I'm on an Athlon II X4 right now btw, it's till doing it's job though it yells for a replacment, even have to undervolt and underclock it to make sure it doesn't overheat and reboot the system. But since I'm more of an Indiegamer and retrogamer myself, that rarely poses a problem.
Intel won't lower the prices of their existing chips - that would be conceding that Ryzen is actual competition. Which won't happen going by their latest slides mocking Epyc in any possible and impossible way. Instead, the newer chips will be released at lower prices to better match AMD's pricepoints. We can already see that with the new Skylake-X Chips, which are considerably lower in price compared to their predecessors at the same core count, yet still pricey compared to Ryzen and Threadripper. Same thing wil happen with Coffee Lake, where the hexacore will probably take the pricepoint of the old i7 7700K, and go down from there.
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