For almost a decade, both the CPU and GPU markets were dominated by the Intel and Nvidia. They pretty much were like monopolies and topped all the sales chart. AMD, the rivalry of both Intel and Nvidia was only able to compete them (a bit) in low-range, budget segment. But that too started changing as it seemed like AMD was done trying. If you thought the same, well, you were wrong and it is all different now or is going to be at least. AMD has started to make a strong comeback. Really strong. The announcements of Ryzen (initially Zen) CPU and Vega GPU architectures was made quite a while ago and after enough waiting, the company is about to launch the finished products to battle their rivals.
Ryzen 7 1800X beating i7-6900K?
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| AMD Ryzen |
AMD Ryzen 7 series of CPUs are built to go head to head versus the present Intel Core i7 series of CPUs and they have also priced very aggressively. The costliest Ryzen, the Ryzen 1800X (8 core, 16 thread) is only $489 while the i7-6900K (6 core, 12 thread) is a whopping $1,100. Ryzen 1800X also reportedly beats i7-6900K in all aspects. It is clocked at 3.6 GHz which can go all the way up to 4 GHz. In the previews of the CPU, Ryzen outperformed Intel's i7-6900K by 10 percent. They also describe how the Ryzen 1800X only has a TDP of 90W while the i7-6900K has 140W. And all these at $500 is a real good buy if you ask me. Yeah, Intel, it is time to slash those prices down.
AMD Ryzen 7
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Cores/Thread
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TDP
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Base Clock/Turbo clock
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Price
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1800X
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8/16
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95W
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3.6/4.0GHz
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$489
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1800 Pro
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8/16
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65W
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TBA
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TBA
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1700X
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8/16
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95W
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3.4/3.8GHz
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$389
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1700
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8/16
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65W
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3.0/3.7GHz
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$319
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It doesn't stop there. Every Ryzen chip in each budget outperforms and costs lesser than Intel. The 1770X costs $389 has a clock speed of 3.4 GHz (boost up to 3.8 GHz). It is also an 8 core, 16 thread chip aimed to attack Intel i7-6800K (costs $1,049). The 1700 costs $319 with 3 GHz (boost to 3.7 GHz). It is termed as the "world's lowest power consuming 8 core processor" with a TDP of 65W.
Vega to come in Q2
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| Vega graphics card |
And the AMD's contender to Nvidia's next flagship GPU. They have already scheduled to announce the Vega series at the GDC where Nvidia is also expected to release their 1080 Ti GPU. It will be considered as the Nvidia's top tier graphics card once it's out. But it's worth noting that their whole new architecture, the Volta is not yet out and Nvidia may be looking at AMD to release Vega first. Both conferences on same day reflect Nvidia's thinking. The table below has some details we know about the Vega series, compared to Polaris 10.
RX 480
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RX500 – Vega 10
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RX 500 – Vega 11
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GPU
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Polaris 10
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Vega 10
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Vega 11
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Process
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14nm
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14nm
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14nm
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Stream Processors
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2304
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4096
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TBA
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Memory
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8GB GDDR5
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8GB HBM2
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TBA
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Bandwidth
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256GB/s
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512GB/s
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TBA
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TDP
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150W
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<250W
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TBA
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Launch
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2016
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Q2 2017
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Q2 2017
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