AMD Ryzen 5000 Series / Zen 3 Launch

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Ryzen 5000 Series / Zen 3 Launch

It's finally Zen 3 launch day! It's a virtual event given the ongoing pandemic, but this much anticipated CPU launch is now streaming.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=29583

[mlau]

This was rather weak IMO. only game and cinebench comparisons, boring. Drink a shot whenever you hear "gaming processor".
it was noted in the end that the ipc comparisons were made with a fixed clock on both 3800xt and 5800x. I'd be interested in
a comparison to tiger lake, the 10900 is old tech.

the other interesting thing was the the big navi benchmarks: they were very close to nvidia 3080 numbers.

[Slartifartblast]

So it's a $50 uplift across the board compared to Zen 2 launch price which is disappointing, I was hoping for flat pricing.

[mlau]

So it's a $50 uplift across the board compared to Zen 2 launch price which is disappointing, I was hoping for flat pricing.

their benchmarks show they're faster than intels current desktop lineup, so it's to be expected really. and apparenly intel won't have anything new to show until at least march 2021.

[Slartifartblast]

their benchmarks show they're faster than intels current desktop lineup, so it's to be expected really.

Well for the 5600x vs 3600x launch price that's a 20% price increase for what probably equates to a 20% increase in performance (we await benchmarks) so no increase performance per dollar there.

[scottishduck]

Highly skeptical of the 19% IPC and beating intel on single thread claims. The price increases are a huge slap in the face. They’re not even close to being a market leader yet and they’re wanting to gouge. Will probably still get a 5950X, hah.

[carewolf]

This was rather weak IMO. only game and cinebench comparisons, boring. Drink a shot whenever you hear "gaming processor".
it was noted in the end that the ipc comparisons were made with a fixed clock on both 3800xt and 5800x. I'd be interested in
a comparison to tiger lake, the 10900 is old tech.

the other interesting thing was the the big navi benchmarks: they were very close to nvidia 3080 numbers.

Yeah, felt more like a Zen 2+ really. Though it makes sense they focused on single threaded performance this generation, they can finally take the last crown back.

[andrei_me]

Michael typo on Ryzen 9 3950X, should be 5950X

[schmidtbag]

This was rather weak IMO. only game and cinebench comparisons, boring. Drink a shot whenever you hear "gaming processor".
it was noted in the end that the ipc comparisons were made with a fixed clock on both 3800xt and 5800x. I'd be interested in
a comparison to tiger lake, the 10900 is old tech.

the other interesting thing was the the big navi benchmarks: they were very close to nvidia 3080 numbers.

Well, AMD has already doing a good job in basically everything but gaming. Gamers are pretty much the #1 complainers, so, they want to emphasize they can stop complaining now.

[andrei_me]

Drink a shot whenever you hear "gaming processor"

Well, that's the last nail in Intel's coffin, as game performance was the only benefit that they claimed vs Ryzen, so their focus were directly on that point, that besides multi-core and perf/watt leadership, now the lead in game and single thread