IanCutress

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by IanCutress 9y ago
Technically AT doesn't own the chips, but rarely does AMD request them to be returned from such a large site. Intel does recall chips from smaller publications for regional sampling, but the big guns always keep the chips for regressio
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AnandTech's interview with Lisa Su on Ryzen Launch: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11177/making-amd-tick-a-very-z...
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AnandTech runs a Chrome Compile benchmark in every review under the office benchmarks section. http://www.anandtech.com/show/11550/the-intel-skylakex-revie... http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CP
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by IanCutress 9y ago
AMD stated that the full EPYC stack will be available for top-tier OEMs end of July. You're unlikely to see them being sold at retail directly until the tier 1/2 OEMs have had the opportunity to take their fill for their customers
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Intel likes to market these CPUs to people who 'mega-task'. Video Editing while Gaming while Streaming while Hosting a server while Dealing with encrypted data while Multi-monitor while Contributing to science while while while et
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EPYC has double the PCIe lanes, double the DRAM channels, and will have enterprise level support. Threadripper is classified by AMD as a Ryzen family product, and is consumer focused (or super high-end desktop focused) rather than enterpris
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You'll be able to pre-order. Still no official word on when it'll ship.
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Check AnandTech's Zen review and their recent Skylake-X review for the latest details.
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Our original Zen Microarchitecture deep dive has all the info. http://www.anandtech.com/show/11170/the-amd-zen-and-ryzen-7-...
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The socket will be the same, but the pin outs will be different as well as the notching. This won't be a socket 775/771 situation.
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Skylake-X has double the L2 cache, double the DRAM channels, more cores and a higher frequency. They compensate :)
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The chrome compile test doesn't like L3 victim caches. Ryzen does badly as a result. Clock for Clock the Skylake-SP cores do bad as well, but Skylake-X is well clocked with cores, so it's still top of the charts.