AMD Ryzen CPUs

Diagram time.

The Computex AMD keynote will begin at 4am tomorrow morning, in case anyone has a bout of insomnia. Excited to finally hear the details about the new products!

Some exclusive info from Gamers Nexus. Apparently the keynote will unveil the 570x mobo’s.

They claim frequencies,oc and pricing won’t be unveiled here but the cpu’s will be unveiled at E3 on June 10.

They also say 3000 cpu’s and x570 pre orders will open 1 July. Nda for reviews will lift 7 July along with product launch.

Steve was wrong, as it turns out.

IPC has been improved by 15% over the previous generation; they claim to match or beat Intel in single core performance, and with better power consumption. In multi-core performance it’s simply no contest. Can’t wait to see official benchmarks.

Apparently they announced two additional chips in the press release. Here is the full list of CPU’s:

Some very, very tasty new options on offer.

Mobo announcements for x570 .

No pricing on the mobo’s as yet.

Personally I am liking the look of a 3900x . Mobo will depend on pricing likely one of the high end asus or msi boards.

Too pricey for my taste. I would like to see the official benchmark numbers for the 6c/12t processors. Those should be excellent value for money.

I can not wait for some reviews.

Meanwhile, from over in Taiwan… Intel, in an obvious attempt to counter the AMD news, started shipping 10th Gen “Ice Lake” processors.

Competition is good. Hopefully @SIGSTART puts out a decent MyBB write up on his Computex visit soon. And hopefully there’s some independent comparison testing soon too.

I’ve honestly been spending my time at OEMs, and gaming peripheral and accessories makers and such. Mainly grabbing photos to try and give y’all a sense of what the show is like, hopefully with a write-up or two of something interesting I’ve seen.

AMD and Intel are in an entirely different area of the city (I’m in the Nangang Expo Centre… there is a whole second part of the show in the Taiwan World Trade Centre / TICC)

Do you think it may be worthwhile to visit their booth? (I’m worried it might not be and it’s quite far away)

Are there particular questions you want answered? (There is ready access to their international PR people here, which is sometimes difficult to get from South Africa. If there’s something you want to know that they can realistically answer, it could be worth it for me to visit.)

Ahh, didn’t realise that. Definitely don’t waste your time and funds on a trip out there, especially if all you’ll probably get is the default PR pitch anyway. I mean, the only real thing that would be of specific interest to us (from both AMD and Intel) is when all these lovely new and shinies will reach our sunny shores, and more importantly, what the hell they’re going to cost us.

And honestly, I doubt we’re going to be overly thrilled by the answers to both those questions anyway, so I wouldn’t stress too much about getting them. So no, rather keep doing what you’re doing and show us all the lovely toys that we won’t get to see or can’t afford - let us live vicariously through you

If the rand could just strengthen!

We can’t afford any tech because the weaksauce rand has basically made everything 50%–60% more expensive.

I was looking at a dual-screen accessory for my laptop (I’ve really been missing my second screen):

Lets say it costs $399. At R14.34 per USD, that’s R5722. If you bring the rand back down to R8 per USD the same thing costs R3192!

Anyway… I’ll try to get to the TICC sometime this week at least. It’s only a R100 Uber ride or so, but I’d want to give myself a full day to explore both halls.

a good question would be when there new products would be available in South Africa and rand price?

I am looking into getting new Ryzen 3 system and would be good to know how long i have to save

I ran into the CTO of one of our local distributors on the expo floor and apparently reps from several other distributors are also here. I’ll start asking them so long so they know we want to know .

Ya apparently the Evetech guys are also over there.

We do tech as well from what I saw

The official launch is 7 July. Expect local availability very shortly thereafter.

They shoudl be available shortly after launch here unless there is a global shortage. Don’t recall us in the last while having difficulty with amd cpu’s and mobo availability.

Pricing we will have to see. Mobo’s will apparently be higher priced per gaming nexus,ect . Apparently most of the mobo manufacturers are using server grade component this time round. So pricing on the mobo’s will be higher then last gen. CPU’s seem to be priced at ryzen 1st gen pricing, so slightly higher then gen 2 but not massively.

By the way, if you’re planning on a 3rd gen Ryzen purchase, the following chart is super important.

So in summary: Ryzen 1st gen chips will NOT work on X570 boards. Also, 3rd gen chips are not guaranteed to work on B350 or X370 boards.

So, the 16-core Ryzen 9 is officially a thing:

AMD also announced the Radeon 5700 GPU’s that will be hitting the market in July. I was hoping for something a bit cheaper, to be honest. Performance looks promising though.