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You know one thing that's always baffled me is Intel's iGPU's aren't half bad anymore and they still manage to include them on phenomenal processors. Why doesn't AMD put an iGPU on all of THEIR chips? Kinda confusing.
I sure hope so, cut down costs a bit! If AMD only go as low as 4c/8t then that means they're competing with i7 at the lowest. That leaves the i5 and i3 market (dual core with or without hyperthreading and quad core without) completely in intel's hands. Kinda makes me wonder why they're okay with batting in the low end GPU market but not the low end CPU market.
Another note, they could keep making CPU's with lower performance, maybe less cache, lower clock speeds, lower over all architectural performance for the very budget conscious consumers. Like what they do with the Athlon x4 chips right now.
AMD has already stated they're going to have three tiers of the Ryzen CPU's which line up with i3/i5/i7 market segments.
You know one thing that's always baffled me is Intel's iGPU's aren't half bad anymore and they still manage to include them on phenomenal processors. Why doesn't AMD put an iGPU on all of THEIR chips? Kinda confusing.
Going to have? Any idea when the i3 and i5 analogs will come out? I assumed (incorrectly I guess) that they were going with APUs for the low end.
Again from the CES coverage I saw, there were various reports that AMD were going to launch a spread more than the 8C/16T model. I don't think APUs were included in that, as the mobo reports all stated that the GPU out sockets were for future release. I suppose, strictly speaking, Ryzen is still a future release...
QFT (from AMD themselves).Not sure when, but they did say they would have "more than one SKU" available at launch.
I'd assume that day-one they'll have something to compete with an i5 and i7.
They are not releasing APU's with the initial Ryzen CPU's, that's correct. They will follow at a later date, also on the AM4 platform.
This is also why there are display connections on a lot of boards.
Overclockers might be able to squeeze out DDR4 3000 MHz on these boards, but that has been tricky on the early pre-production processors.
That's at least 2400MHz as DDR4 JEDEC standard speed is 2133 (2400 on latest intel - not sure if that is intel or JEDEC).Sources inside AMD are saying that they will launch Ryzen with support above the DDR4 JEDEC standard speeds,
Realistically, anything under $500 for the 8c/16t CPU is a win if its Haswell+ IPC peformance and close clocks. Even if its a few % slower IPC, its still in the ballpark and still well under cutting the Intel comp.
Realistically, anything under $500 for the 8c/16t CPU is a win if its Haswell+ IPC peformance and close clocks. Even if its a few % slower IPC, its still in the ballpark and still well under cutting the Intel comp.