For the past couple of months, AMD has been brushed under the mattress and has been ignored since the Skylake has been introduced. But Red fights back. In a few weeks, everything will change and tables will be turned.
AMD has decided to release a new line-up of CPU's earlier codenamed Zen and now Ryzen. It is stated that:
1. All CPU's will be overclockable.
2. CrossFire will be supported only on X370 motherboard chipsets.
3. Overclocking is supported only on motherboards with X370, X300 and B350 chipsets
4. Motherboards will many of the latest features including NVMe and DDR4 RAM.
It is hoped that Ryzen will be released by February or March. Expect the pricing to be like the FX series at the time of release. The CPU Summit Ridge with 8 cores and 16 threads was faster than an i7 6900K in tests like Blender and Handbrake.
So if you are planning to get an AMD PC, better save your money and have patience.
AMD has decided to release a new line-up of CPU's earlier codenamed Zen and now Ryzen. It is stated that:
1. All CPU's will be overclockable.
2. CrossFire will be supported only on X370 motherboard chipsets.
3. Overclocking is supported only on motherboards with X370, X300 and B350 chipsets
4. Motherboards will many of the latest features including NVMe and DDR4 RAM.
It is hoped that Ryzen will be released by February or March. Expect the pricing to be like the FX series at the time of release. The CPU Summit Ridge with 8 cores and 16 threads was faster than an i7 6900K in tests like Blender and Handbrake.
So if you are planning to get an AMD PC, better save your money and have patience.
