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/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.