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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.
(Score: 2, Funny) by anubi on Friday April 20 2018, @06:46AM (1 child)
That's been my prime driver as to why I still have 386SX systems in operation.
And building my own line of Arduino-Compatibles.
I Flat Cannot Trust These New Systems!
They are beautiful to look at, very powerful, but they are like having a whore for a wife. Everyone and his brother is in her behind my back.
There is no way for me to "fix" her. As far as I am concerned, she is a whore, a prostitute, unfaithful, and I want a divorce on those grounds.
She is "business grade", not my kind. I do not need near her performance level, but its *imperative* that I be able to trust her!
Even if I have Arduino grade stuff doing the core PLC kind of stuff, I can always get HMI's for "eye candy", and fall back to terminal mode in case of eye candy fail.
The kind of stuff I work on, well let me say it would be very expensive if it suddenly stopped working in the middle of the night. And a lot of it is security related. I can't have other people running around knowing how to turn it off or telling it to look the other way. And it HAS to be able to keep a secret. If it doesn't, people's property may be taken - or worse.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday April 20 2018, @01:05PM
Use a ＣＹＢＥＲ condom. Penetrate those robo-whore CPUs.
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