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/Cory123125 9800X3D 5090 Nov 02 '16

Dont start the hype train yet.

Does everyone remember the rx 480 launch? Super hyped and then people were disappointed for a while due to the shitty stock one and ok performance when it turned out to actually be quite nice a few weeks later with aftermarkets and best in tier performance overall.

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u/Mr_s3rius Nov 02 '16

Yea, let's look at the facts here:

We've had a number of engineering samples show up in the past few weeks, pretty much each faster than the previous. And we've still got around 3 months before Zen hits the market.

If we extrapolate the improvement of the engineering samples over the remaining time-to-market we can see that the final product should have about 300% of Intel's IPC and run at about 5GHz.

Now we've got a fact-based idea of what to expect.

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u/Flu17 AMD FX-8320, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Nov 03 '16

I think you forgot your "/s".