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AMD Ryzen 5 CPUs Launching Next Month, 4 & 6 Core Options
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Originally posted by Slartifartblast View PostWait until the tyres are well and truly kicked, see where the weaknesses are and for them to be fixed otherwise it's early adopters curse. I'll hold off considering Ryzen until Ryzen Mk2 which is due 2018 Q1.
That said, what L_A_G experiences is a clear RMA case.
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Originally posted by Slartifartblast View PostWait until the tyres are well and truly kicked, see where the weaknesses are and for them to be fixed otherwise it's early adopters curse. I'll hold off considering Ryzen until Ryzen Mk2 which is due 2018 Q1.
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The 4 core version would be interesting to test. It is one CCX whereas the 6 core is still two CCXs with one core disabled on each CCX. The 4 core version should suffer from less cache bottlenecks and thread migration issues between CCXs.
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I wouldn't touch the 1600x at $249.
IIRC they plan on releasing a 'pro' series later this year with higher clocks.Last edited by peppercats; 16 March 2017, 10:15 AM.
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These Ryzen 5 chips are going to be a tremendous value as compared with the comparable intel part. They'll deliver similar single threaded performance, and superior multi-thread performance. It was only a few years ago that most games were single threaded or at most, dual threaded. Now four threads is common. Clearly the trend is towards parallelism, and this is where AMD shines and intel whines!
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The sad reality is after over a decade of multi core CPU's in the consumer space and decades before that of multi- CPU rigs in the high end space we still can't get a handle on parallel programing. And time and again test after tests show rapid declines in scaling past 4 cores and particularly after 6.
Your best all around bet even to this day is simply buy the clock. In other words....buy the fastest CPU you can afford. And base speed at that and don't rely on any turbo mode. And don't worry about more than 4 cores.
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