https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-10-08-amd-announces-ryzen-5000-desktop-cpus-to-challenge-intels-gaming-dominance

"AMD claims that their new processors offer better single-threaded performance - and therefore better gaming performance - than Intel's best parts, and that would be an exciting turnaround if it's borne out in testing. In Cinebench R20's single-threaded benchmark, AMD showed the flagship 5900X beating out the Core i9 10900K by a significant margin - 544  vs 631, a 16 per cent advantage."

Certainly interesting.

If their notebook chips are any indicator, then AMD may have just secured the head seat in the enthusiast pc market.

Good thing I waited for this announcement before i went out to buy parts for my next build . 

We need real benchmarks from reputable sources. 

Anyone notice the price increase versus Zen 2

18 minutes ago, canadiantree said:

Anyone notice the price increase versus Zen 2

It was only to be expected, as Zen 3 now has the lead over any sort of workload, as well as performance per Watt/dollar. There is always a price premium for the very best, and AMD are not just the budget brand anymore when it comes to CPUs.

They will probably keep Matisse 2 as the budget options (it is rumoured that Matisse will probably be phased out, likely due to the older node), and hold the 3600 and 3700X successors until Rocket Lake in March 2021.

In the next 3-4 months I will assemble/buy my next game rig and for sure it will contain an AMD professor, most likely the 5900X
Combined with an 3080 or one of the new AMD offerings soon to be announced.

 

The competition between Intel and AMD is good for us users, I hope they can compete with Nvidia as well.

1 minute ago, Ixoye said:

The competition between Intel and AMD is good for us users, I hope they can compete with Nvidia as well.

The RX 6000 teaser showed ~10% less performance than the RTX 3080, albeit with unoptimised drivers according to AMD. Since it will come with 16GB VRAM, if they price it at around $600 it will be a serious contender. Unless they did not preview their fastest SKU but I doubt it.

When I built my new PC last year I decided to go AMD, with a X570 MB, it seems as though I made the right choice, as this time next year I'll have 2 very fast PC's one will be a AMD 5900x, X570 mb, 3080/3070 20/16 GB GPU and a Amd 3800x, B350 mb with a 1070 TI for about £500 upgrade cost. With MSFS, P3D V5, XP12 upgrades/optimizations Simming/gaming will never have been as good, with my main PC future proof for 3/4 years when upgrades start all over again probably with AM4/5? 

Edited October 8, 20205 yr by eaim

Wrong sub forum.

Glad my x570 Strix isn't obsolete

11 hours ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

The RX 6000 teaser showed ~10% less performance than the RTX 3080, albeit with unoptimised drivers according to AMD. Since it will come with 16GB VRAM, if they price it at around $600 it will be a serious contender. Unless they did not preview their fastest SKU but I doubt it.

I'm actually thinking they previewed the 6800XT & not the top end model. Rumor on the street is that they made some last minute decisions on the clock speeds of the high end model & it wasn't ready in time for yesterday. All this is pure speculation of course. As far as I'm concerned, I'm leaning more & more towards an all red configuration. That GPU looks beautiful.

14 hours ago, Egbert Drenth said:

it will contain an AMD professor

Make sure your case is large enough to accomodate an entire professor as some tend to have somewhat larger bellies 😉

3 hours ago, canadiantree said:

I'm actually thinking they previewed the 6800XT & not the top end model. Rumor on the street is that they made some last minute decisions on the clock speeds of the high end model & it wasn't ready in time for yesterday. All this is pure speculation of course. As far as I'm concerned, I'm leaning more & more towards an all red configuration. That GPU looks beautiful.

I believe it was mentioned in a report of an interview in advance of the Zen 3 reveal that the RDNA 2 unit they previewed was still being fine-tuned, both in terms of hardware and software. I'm guessing what they previewed was a slightly cut-down Navi 21 with immature drivers, because revealing the best performance numbers would kind of ruin the reveal for the 28th, but if they were underpromising it wouldn't be a good idea with Ampere selling already. I think that what we can take from this is that it's likely that they will have a contender for the RTX 3080, and this is great from AMD considering where they were before.

I agree that the cooler looks beautiful, and it's refreshing that they moved away from the blower reference coolers, especially with rumours that partners will not be releasing their cards at launch once again. That really hurt the initial sales of the RX 5000 cards.