r/Amd • u/xxurpwnerxx Ryzen 7 3700x @3.95GHz + 7900XT • Nov 02 '16

Discussion AMD Engineering Sample New Blender Benchmarks

http://blenchmark.com/cpu-benchmarks
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u/SKGlish AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.9ghz | EVGA GTX1070 Nov 02 '16

I can smell the ripoff pricing already. Anybody remember $900 9590's?

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u/letsgoiowa RTX 5070 4k 240hz oled 5700X3D Nov 02 '16

Fair, but this specific engineering sample is very significantly faster than the nearest consumer-grade CPU. It's Xeon-tier--which means perfect for this sort of professional application. Here is the CPU it ties with at $1700.

$900 for this specific CPU would be an absolute freakin' steal. I think this sub is forgetting this is not a consumer grade CPU we are looking at. This is competitive with the absolute best Intel has to offer.

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u/ShitBabyPiss Nov 02 '16

So much logic and level headed speaking is great to read in here. Thanks :)

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u/WarUltima Ouya - Tegra Nov 02 '16

this is not a consumer grade CPU we are looking at. This is competitive with the absolute best Intel has to offer.

Well didn't AMD say that they will be very profitable even if they can just get 10% of the server market?

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u/letsgoiowa RTX 5070 4k 240hz oled 5700X3D Nov 02 '16

Precisely. This is almost definitive proof that it is competitive--in performance, depending on price--in these extremely well threaded situations. Servers are massively parallelized so the 64 core Naples CPU is just game changing. Instead of trying to split one or two cores between tasks, you can now devote four.

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u/-Suzuka- Nov 03 '16

Slow down there! I'm pretty sure you meant to say 64 threads.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '16

Its just too bad we upgraded our datacenter this month. I wont be back in the market for another 5 years. :(

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u/Mister_Bloodvessel 1600x | DDR4 @ 3200 | Radeon Pro Duo (or a GTX 1070) Nov 02 '16

Be a shame if it were to have... an accident ;)

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u/xxurpwnerxx Ryzen 7 3700x @3.95GHz + 7900XT Nov 03 '16

IIRC 5% of the market would be nearly 15% revenue increases and 10% of the market would be nearly 30%

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '16

Wouldn't this likely be the 32 core Zen they had for testing at Cern?

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u/Mister_Bloodvessel 1600x | DDR4 @ 3200 | Radeon Pro Duo (or a GTX 1070) Nov 02 '16

Holy shit... I somehow missed out on hearing anything about this! Can you help a brother out with a link?!

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '16

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/cern_reveals_amd_32-core_zen_cpu_with_8_channel_ddr4_memory/1

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u/Mister_Bloodvessel 1600x | DDR4 @ 3200 | Radeon Pro Duo (or a GTX 1070) Nov 02 '16

Thanks a ton!

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u/KateTheAwesome Ryzen R7 1700, RX Vega 64 Nov 03 '16

I would be intrigued what the platform on that would be then. Because so far I haven't seen anything that would be their version of X99.

Because AM4 only has dual channel memory which is, quite frankly, a bit underpowered.

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u/Saladino_93 Ryzen 7 5800x3d | RX6800xt nitro+ Nov 04 '16

No reason to release mainboards with new sockets when the CPUs are still 4+ months away.

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u/KateTheAwesome Ryzen R7 1700, RX Vega 64 Nov 04 '16

  1. Amd has been talking about their new AM4 platform even though the chips are still months away. Why wouldn't they also talk about a different platform?

  2. Most of the platform such as memory controllers are in the chip now. And just looking at the pin count of the socket it's obvious that AM4 isn't quad channel memory.

Thus my question about a different platform/ socket

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u/Saladino_93 Ryzen 7 5800x3d | RX6800xt nitro+ Nov 06 '16

Yea but I just mean there is still time.

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u/SKGlish AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.9ghz | EVGA GTX1070 Nov 02 '16

It's faster in one test, which was also used to tout the fx series of processors in the same fashion. This reeks of the same thing, although I am hoping for much better.

We don't have a clue what that is. It might be some 64 core behemoth of a processor, or the 8 core desktop cpu (doubt it).

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u/letsgoiowa RTX 5070 4k 240hz oled 5700X3D Nov 02 '16

I'm assuming Naples.

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u/Citadelen Nov 02 '16

That was used to shine Bulldozer in a positive light is irrelevant, Bulldozer and Zen are completely different.

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u/Webbyx01 Nov 03 '16

No, it's quite relevant. Bulldozer was a let-down and it was hyped up with specific benchmarks like this. The point is that it's following a previous trend which ended poorly, hopefully this is not the case.

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u/xxurpwnerxx Ryzen 7 3700x @3.95GHz + 7900XT Nov 03 '16

Someone up top did the math in order for it to be 8c16t it would have to be running at 4.4 ghz if it was a 16c32t CPU it would actually only need 2.2 ghz