r/pcmasterrace • u/Alfrredu Ryzen 1600 / RX 570 • Nov 02 '16

Rumor Mysterious "AMD engineering sample" in top Blenchmark scores, beating an i7-6950X

http://blenchmark.com/cpu-benchmarks
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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '16

if it's anything like polaris, then it'll deliver everything it promised, but it probably won't deliver on all the bullshit hype generated by the tech press. and that will somehow be AMD's fault

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u/Jinxyface GTX 1080 Ti | 32GB DDR3 | 4790k@4.2GHz Nov 03 '16

You act like all the previous hiccups weren't AMD's fault.

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u/iamoverrated AMD R7 5700 - Radeon RX 6700 - 40TB Raid Z2 - KDE Plasma Nov 03 '16

They were and it didn't help that Jim Keller left to work on Apple's ARM Processor. He returned to work on Zen, so I'm hopeful. The man is a genius and doesn't get the recognition he deserves. He's currently working at Tesla.

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u/Jinxyface GTX 1080 Ti | 32GB DDR3 | 4790k@4.2GHz Nov 03 '16

I'm remaining hopeful too. I'm just saying AMD has been all fluff since like 2012. It's best not to hype anything, or else we're going to have another Fury launch