AMD - Ryzen CPUs

[j.crater]

There is a great disturbance in the Force recently due to AMDs release of Ryzen processors. Just a few of many articles about the subject:

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2...competitor
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11143/amd-...-march-2nd
https://arstechnica.com/information-tech...-just-329/

What do you think we can expect from Ryzen and CPU market generally in near future?
Great improvement in price/performance on Ryzen CPUs? Revived competition between manufacturers and thus more innovation in the area? Intel higher end CPUs becoming more affordable?

[wavic]

There was time, perhaps it's not in the past, when the GPU was designed for higher benchmark results. I will wait

[Larz60+]

On sale at Microcenter today:
Ryzen 7 1800X 499.99
Ryzen 7 1700X 399.99
Ryzen 7 1700  329.99

Additional $30 savings on compatible motherboards
and $20 savings on qualifying video cards

[Larz60+]

Just read the articles you cited. The following is especially impressive:

In a similar vein, again with the Cinebench 15 multi-threaded test, the Ryzen 7 1700X scores over and above the Core i7-6800K (its price competition) and higher than the Core i7-6900K which costs 2.5 times as much.

We’ll tell you what our benchmarks say, with official retail processors. But you will have to wait until March 2nd. Sorry.

the numbers were: 39% better than the Core I7 6800K, and 4% better than the CoreI7 6900K

It's a totally new design, with two more in the works.

I just may have to dish out some bucks. But need to wait for a Motherboard that can do it justice.

[j.crater]

Benchmarks are impressive, I am now very much looking forward to independent tests on a wider scale. Then I expect to see what a typical consumer will get from new CPUs.

I expect pre-built machines to be first to hit the market. Big players will want to be first to get a chunk of the cake. Ryzen may push me to finally spend some bucks as well. I have been putting off PC upgrade for a long time. For some reason I am somewhat able to stick with almost 10 years old Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz and DDR2 ram box.

[Kebap]

Just for bringing Intel and Nvidia prices back to reality we should be thankful to AMD.

[Larz60+]

Just for bringing Intel and Nvidia back to reality with their prices we should be thankful to AMD.

Argee - The price will only be about 40% of Intel's