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Re: AMD Announces the Ryzen 5
2017/03/16 05:55:11
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Maybe these will be better gaming CPUs.
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Re: AMD Announces the Ryzen 5
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panzlock Maybe these will be better gaming CPUs.
You have missed the point of the 7 series....
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Re: AMD Announces the Ryzen 5
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Re: AMD Announces the Ryzen 5
2017/03/16 10:57:15
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Those Ryzen 5 prices could be alot better, AMD could sell the Ryzen 5 Quadcore for $100 and sell like hotcakes....
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Re: AMD Announces the Ryzen 5
2017/03/16 13:29:15
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panzlock Maybe these will be better gaming CPUs.
You have missed the point of the 7 series....
No, I haven't. I wasn't speaking from a moaners perspective. R7's are very capable and reasonably priced. But the gaming community, particularly the one from the Intel camp fail to realize the potential of AMD's new flagship CPUs. Overall it is a great product based on testing results, however many expected more out of it in terms of gaming and overclocking potential. I expect the R5 to be closer to the 6700K and 7700K which hopefully translates to similar gaming benchmarks and ends the debate about AMD's stature as Intel's competitor in the mid to high end CPU desktop market in general performance. Hence my comment which was aimed at those who relentlessly berate Ryzen due to shortcomings at 1080p where the 7700K in particular holds an advantage even over Intel's overpriced sibling. I've read too many absurd posts about how "bad" Ryzen is because the R7 can't duplicate benchmark scores of its Intel adversary which, if I may point out once again, is priced at double the cost. What I want the R5 to do is shut these people up.
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Re: AMD Announces the Ryzen 5
2017/03/16 13:50:51
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panzlock No, I haven't. I wasn't speaking from a moaners perspective. R7's are very capable and reasonably priced. But the gaming community, particularly the one from the Intel camp fail to realize the potential of AMD's new flagship CPUs. Overall it is a great product based on testing results, however many expected more out of it in terms of gaming and overclocking potential. I expect the R5 to be closer to the 6700K and 7700K which hopefully translates to similar gaming benchmarks and ends the debate about AMD's stature as Intel's competitor in the mid to high end CPU desktop market in general performance. Hence my comment which was aimed at those who relentlessly berate Ryzen due to shortcomings at 1080p where the 7700K in particular holds an advantage even over Intel's overpriced sibling. I've read too many absurd posts about how "bad" Ryzen is because the R7 can't duplicate benchmark scores of its Intel adversary which, if I may point out once again, is priced at double the cost. What I want the R5 to do is shut these people up.
It won't shut them up though... It looks as though it still tops out at about 4Ghz - so I would assume similar performance in gaming scenarios as the R7. The killer I think is the 1500x 4C/8T that could potentially boost up to 3.9 at $189. So potential i7 multitasking potential equivalent at cheaper than i5 prices??? Sounds OK to me - and there's still room for optimization too. I see Intel dropping an i5 chip with HT next to combat this.
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Re: AMD Announces the Ryzen 5
2017/03/16 16:53:40
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panzlock No, I haven't. I wasn't speaking from a moaners perspective. R7's are very capable and reasonably priced. But the gaming community, particularly the one from the Intel camp fail to realize the potential of AMD's new flagship CPUs. Overall it is a great product based on testing results, however many expected more out of it in terms of gaming and overclocking potential. I expect the R5 to be closer to the 6700K and 7700K which hopefully translates to similar gaming benchmarks and ends the debate about AMD's stature as Intel's competitor in the mid to high end CPU desktop market in general performance. Hence my comment which was aimed at those who relentlessly berate Ryzen due to shortcomings at 1080p where the 7700K in particular holds an advantage even over Intel's overpriced sibling. I've read too many absurd posts about how "bad" Ryzen is because the R7 can't duplicate benchmark scores of its Intel adversary which, if I may point out once again, is priced at double the cost. What I want the R5 to do is shut these people up.
It won't shut them up though... It looks as though it still tops out at about 4Ghz - so I would assume similar performance in gaming scenarios as the R7. The killer I think is the 1500x 4C/8T that could potentially boost up to 3.9 at $189. So potential i7 multitasking potential equivalent at cheaper than i5 prices??? Sounds OK to me - and there's still room for optimization too. I see Intel dropping an i5 chip with HT next to combat this.
Despite having low OC thresholds the R7 is up there in performance with Intel's best in terms of compute and gaming at higher resolution so lets wait and see before we abuse the R5 too much. Granted it very well may not have the same power available on tap as Intel's i7's but like you pointed out i5's are definitely within reach which should chip away at Intel's revenue forcing a reaction via price drop or better tech or both. Either way consumers win and this is what Intel fanboys are clearly missing. They can keep their stupid benchmarks.
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Re: AMD Announces the Ryzen 5
2017/03/16 17:50:10
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panzlock Maybe these will be better gaming CPUs. The fundamental problem is that processors are tested with games that have CPU bottlenecks in them, which has historically widened the gap between AMD and Intel; it is a bias with no point in doing it because that isn't how we play games. Zen equals Broadwell IPC per core, it will always lose to Skylake and Kaby Lake per core. The argument against GPU bottleneck processor testing is it makes all processors perform the same, okay so why get anything but the cheapest processor to get the job done? Per core, AMD has already won.
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Re: AMD Announces the Ryzen 5
2017/03/19 20:36:19
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knightsilver Those Ryzen 5 prices could be alot better, AMD could sell the Ryzen 5 Quadcore for $100 and sell like hotcakes....
They need to make good profits in order to stick close behind Intel.
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Re: AMD Announces the Ryzen 5
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