AMD Zen Discussion Thread

TerrorFirmer

I had the 270HU but now have the 27CQ. Anyway, it's welcome news, but I think both Freesync and Gsync are largely irrelevant to the mainstream and have been totally overblown. Not dismissing the technology or what it offers, but the amount of times I see Freesync and Gsync mentioned on budget threads....it's honestly not a worthwhile consideration for 95% of builds.

wotzgoingon

I disagree Terror. What I think is a waste is 144Hz. I personally cannot see the difference but I do notice the difference of Freesync.

jebidiah

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I disagree Terror. What I think is a waste is 144Hz. I personally cannot see the difference but I do notice the difference of Freesync.

I can definitely notice the difference in games, even using my own pc with a different monitor the screen tearing effect is immediately obvious

game4it70

Link for the keynote at 5pm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bibZyMjY2K4&feature=youtu.be

K.O.Kiki

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I disagree Terror. What I think is a waste is 144Hz. I personally cannot see the difference but I do notice the difference of Freesync.

High-refresh is more a thing you feel rather than see.

Players have noticed the difference between 60Hz & >60Hz since the CRT days!

EoinHef

So i sold my black friday upgrade(R5 2600) to a mate for his sons PC and also sold my oculus rift so im back in the market for a new cpu. Be much closer to what i had in mind originally before the money was needed elsewhere.

So really hopin AMD blow us away with the 3xxx series. Any ideas on release dates?

I know we will find out in about an hour but im getting impatient:P

game4it70

Where is the fast forward button? :pac:

AlmightyCushion

game4it70 wrote: »

Where is the fast forward button? :pac:

No one cares about any of this shít. We just want to hear about the new products. I'd love for a company to just release the details of all their new shít in a PDF or something on a website and let the tech sites go to town on it.

K.O.Kiki

Anyone else feel like Dr. Su's using some "Trumpian" language?

AlmightyCushion

30 minutes in and we start getting actual details of what the new processors are like compared to the old ones. What a waste of 30 minutes.

K.O.Kiki

Radeon 7 is triple-fan out of the box!

Slutmonkey57b

"great performance for gamers ... Performance leadership ... In content creation and compute"

Just give us a decent 1440p card at under 200 quid please

Venom

RTX 2080 level performance!


Sweet.


Now tell us the price.

Slutmonkey57b

Anandtech has crashed, possibly from boredom.

K.O.Kiki

Here we go, details!

$699
Release date 2019-02-07

...fúck.

game4it70

Ah ffs just finishing off a rebuild and was only looking to replace the Amd 2600 cpu.Hmm new gpu is tempting....

will56

Cinebench test looks promising

K.O.Kiki

So Zen 2 is outperforming i9-9900K at 30% lower power draw - but not available for at least 6 months.

Icyseanfitz

ryzen 7 is meh, 2080 performance at the same price. if nvidia release a 1180 at 600 their screwed.

beno619

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

ryzen 7 is meh, 2080 performance at the same price. if nvidia release a 1180 at 600 their screwed.

*Radeon 7.

Venom

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

ryzen 7 is meh, 2080 performance at the same price. if nvidia release a 1180 at 600 their screwed.

Did the RTX 2080 not launch at $799? I recall there being something dodgy about the prices Nvidia announced at the press event, with the actual prices being more expensive for the founder's edition.

wotzgoingon

That Radeon 7 looks to be a fairly decent card and reasonably priced considering what you get. 4096bit memory bus 16 GB's of HBM and 7nm Vega.

Subcomandante Marcos

So what did the announce besides an expensive Vega 2 card?

I read something about a cinebench test of a CPU that out performed the 9900k but no details?

wotzgoingon

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

So what did the announce besides an expensive Vega 2 card?

I read something about a cinebench test of a CPU that out performed the 9900k but no details?

I didn't watch it either I was flushing the coolant on my car.

Afaik they didn't release much details so I guess Hardware Unboxed were right. They said there will be no details released at CES a couple of days ago in their news corner video.

L

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

So what did the announce besides an expensive Vega 2 card?

I read something about a cinebench test of a CPU that out performed the 9900k but no details?

Anandtech has a fair bit of detail here

Slutmonkey57b

They waffled for 90 minutes about partnerships and ideas and stuff then announced a halo product that's not very interesting and does nothing to change the landscape.

Venom

Slutmonkey57b wrote: »

They waffled for 90 minutes about partnerships and ideas and stuff then announced a halo product that's not very interesting and does nothing to change the landscape.

E-sport games tend to be really well optimized and run great on very low specced hardware, so I really don't get the point of having e-sports partners on stage at some of these tech events like Dell yesterday and AMD today when the tech brands are trying to push their latest and greatest hardware

wotzgoingon

Venom wrote: »

E-sport games tend to be really well optimized and run great on very low specced hardware, so I really don't get the point of having e-sports partners on stage at some of these tech events like Dell yesterday and AMD today when the tech brands are trying to push their latest and greatest hardware

They are supposedly really popular atm not that I play them myself or anything.

K.O.Kiki

I guess it's fortunate that A-Sync is coming to Geforce, because I'm not upgrading for another year looks like.

Venom

Steve from Gamers Nexus with some more details regarding Vega 7, Ryzen 3 and X570 mobos.

It's looking like good news for X470 board owners that plan on picking up the new chips in that only a bios update will be needed and even PCI-E 4 compatibility could get added if the board makers choose to do so, tho personally I would be surprised at that happening. I don't think PCI-E 4 is really going to be that big a deal for a long time for 99% of users, as even the latest top tier GPU's won't currently max out PCI-E 3.