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posted by martyb on Wednesday April 22 2020, @06:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the moore-for-your-money? dept.

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and Ryzen 3 3100: New Low Cost Quad-Core Zen 2 Processors From $99

If one were critiquing AMD's current line of Zen 2 processors, one of the things to note is that the cheapest option is $199, for the six-core Ryzen 5 3600. This puts the latest hardware from AMD out of reach for anyone building a gaming $900 system or below. In order to redress this balance, AMD is set to launch two new quad core designs in May, starting at $99. The new Ryzen 3 hardware will each feature one Zen 2 core chiplet, run at up to 4.3 GHz, and offer PCIe 4.0 connectivity.

A few years ago, the quad core processor was at the top of the market, and you would need $500 for one. When AMD started launching its quad core parts for as little as $99, the market became interested in what would become the new normal. These new Ryzen 3 parts from AMD, the new low-end quad cores, are helping define that normal, especially with high frequencies and taking advantage of the latest features such as high-speed DDR4, Zen 2 levels of IPC at high frequencies, and PCIe 4.0.

[...] One of the often talked topics, since January, is when AMD is going to launch its more mid-range B550 motherboards for the Ryzen 3000 processors. Today AMD is announcing that B550 is coming on June 16th this year, with all the main motherboard manufacturers coming out with a variety of models, up to 60 for launch. AMD is also confirming that B550 will offer PCIe 4.0 connectivity. More details to come at a later date.

The Ryzen 3 3300X ($120) and Ryzen 3 3100 ($100) quad-cores are compared to the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF, which is $85 for 6 cores, 12 threads on a "12nm+" process node. These would compete with upcoming Comet Lake-S desktop CPUs from Intel, which are expected to launch on May 27.


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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday April 22 2020, @03:22PM (1 child)

    by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday April 22 2020, @03:22PM (#985746)

    I've been hearing server rooms are turning off hyper threading to avoid speculative execution issues but it seems to me 4C/8T on a $120 CPU with ECC support sorta suggests the market is rejecting hyperthreading on both servers and workstations now?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday April 22 2020, @06:47PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday April 22 2020, @06:47PM (#985814) Journal

    AMD made hyperthreading standard on a majority of its chips. All of the Threadripper chips have hyperthreading, and those are for workstations. If it's being turned off, so be it, the performance gain is not that much. But the implementation might be more secure than Intel's.

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