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posted by janrinok on Thursday April 19 2018, @10:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-wooosh dept.

Four of AMD's second-generation Ryzen CPUs have been released. These are "12nm Zen+" chips with minor changes, rather than the more significant third-generation "7nm Zen 2" chips coming later.

The CPUs are the 8-core Ryzen 7 2700X ($329) and Ryzen 7 2700 ($299), and the 6-core Ryzen 5 2600X ($229) and Ryzen 5 2600 ($199). All four come with a bundled cooler, 2 threads per core, and support DDR4-2933 memory, up from DDR4-2666.

The Ryzen 7 2700X takes over the top spot from the Ryzen 7 1800X, and for an extra 10 W in TDP will provide a base frequency of 3.7 GHz and a turbo frequency of 4.3 GHz on its eight cores, with simultaneous multi-threading. This is an extra +100 MHz and +300 MHz respectively, going above the average limits of the 1800X when overclocked.

The 2700X also reduces the top cost for the best AM4 Ryzen processor: when launched, the 1800X was set at $499, without a bundled cooler, and was recently dropped to $349 as a price-competitor to Intel's most powerful mainstream processor. The 2700X undercuts both, by being listed at a suggested e-tail price of $329, and is bundled with the best stock cooler in the business: AMD's Wraith Prism RGB. AMD is attempting to hit all the targets: aggressive pricing, top performance, and best value, all in one go.

IPC is improved about 3% due to cache latency improvements, clock speeds are up about 6% (die sizes and transistor counts are similar to the previous generation, but more unused silicon is used as a thermal buffer), and Precision Boost 2 / XFR 2 is used, for a total of about 10% better performance.

Also at Tom's Hardware and PC World.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @12:00AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @12:00AM (#669401)

    They used to make some cheap no frills boards which handled abuse alright. Other than the occasional recap after 2-5 years (they didn't last as long in the P4 era) they lasted pretty well, could usually handle up to a 20-30 percent overclock, and other than focusing on mATX boards, were full featured save 1-2 expansion slots.

    Having spoken with someone with sufficient money and time who overclocked the first gen Ryzen parts, the best overclocking motherboards were actually B350, not X370 boards, which had both better bios straps and higher overclocking potential even up to today. If you didn't need the extra PCIe sockets or other features of the 370, the 350s were as good or better without the price premium.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday April 20 2018, @03:48PM (2 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Friday April 20 2018, @03:48PM (#669681) Journal

    You mean this ECS? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4S844H8205&cm_re=ECS_motherboard-_-9SIA4S844H8205-_-Product [newegg.com]

    I built a computer just after Ryzen 7 was released.

    Ryzen 7 1700
    RX480 8GB (Got this for Way Cheaper than the current asking price!)
    32GB RAM
    1TB SSD
    MSI B350 Tomahawk

    Up until recently I was having random BSODs and I couldn't figure out my problem. Just figured MB driver issue or something. Finally got them cleared up. I think what fixed it was swapping the RAM into the A1, B1 slots instead of the A2, B2 slots. I could of sworn the manual said to put the RAM in A2, B2, but whatever. Haven't had a BSOD in over a month.

    I was hoping that I would be able to get a Vega at a reasonable price, but not at the prices I've been seeing. I did got a lucky grab on a Vive for about $420 on ebay (after random $50 ebay coupon) and have been quite happy with my purchase. Probably the best intro to VR for gaming was the Portal Stories mod for Portal 2. Been having quite a bit of fun with Star Trek: Bridge Crew as well.

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    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday April 20 2018, @04:55PM (1 child)

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 20 2018, @04:55PM (#669709)

      Congrats on your Vive! Haven't heard of ST: Bridge Crew, just picked it up.

      If you bought that RX480 right after Ryzen release it was probably 200-240$ I know because i also had an RX480 from last February. They are still worth over 400$ despite being a previous generation middle tier card. Wanted to upgrade to Vega but was waiting for prices to stabilized and they only went up and up. Ended up going Nvidia because of that (and totally regret it).

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      • (Score: 2) by black6host on Saturday April 21 2018, @05:19AM

        by black6host (3827) on Saturday April 21 2018, @05:19AM (#669970) Journal

        I just bought a cheap ass gaming PC for my son. Under $800. Has an RX580 and an i5 in it. At current prices it makes the system a deal, you couldn't buy the other parts and the vid card and build it yourself for much less. I want to take his vid card and swap it for mine :)