Today at Computex, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is announcing the raft of processors it will be launching on its new Zen 2 chiplet-based microarchitecture. Among other things, AMD is unveiling its new Ryzen 9 product tier, which it is using for its 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X processor, and which runs at 4.6 GHz boost. All of the five processors will be PCIe 4.0 enabled, and while they are being accompanied by the new X570 chipset launch, they still use the same AM4 socket, meaning some AMD 300 and 400-series motherboards can still be used. We have all the details inside.
If the first few waves of Zen-based processors put AMD back on the map, this is the wave that will propel the company beyond Intel on all fronts – single-core performance, multicore performance, price, and on all fronts, from workstations to gaming. Intel will probably be trailing AMD on all these fronts until at least 2022.
AMD’s turnaround over the past few years is nothing short of stunning, and I’m quite sure my next machine will be rocking team red once again.
And Intel’s garbage has been discovered to be vulnerable to yet more serious design flaws requiring yet more expensive mitigations which AMD does not share. Let’s not forget that…
I’ve been an AMD fanboy since the K6-2 days. I’ve always found them to be much more innovative than Intel. In my opinion, they’ve always managed pull a rabbit out of a hat when it is most critical. The K6-2, the Athlon, the Athlon64 and now Ryzen prove that they have a hell of a chip design team. Even the A series APUs that had issues was a huge leap forward, too bad they did not manage to make it performant on its first few iterations.
To be, the Ryzen line has brought excitement back to the CPU market.
A 700MHz Duron was my first AMD chip, on a budget-but-still-fantastic SiS735-based motherboard (ECS K7S5A!).
AMD definitely inspires far more nostalgia for me than anything Intel, or NVidia for that matter (My first 3D acccelerator was an 8MB Rage Pro, my second was a Rage 128).
Sure if you ignore the decade and half of terrible performing chips, AMD Is awesome!!!
Except that now we all now know how Intel managed get ahead of AMD. While it is true AMD lagged behind Intel over the last decade, Intel worked pretty hard to develop defective by design hardware by building grossly negligent assumptions into their designs.
Does it really matter that they got it wrong before they got it right? Do previous designs & generations outweigh the current design & generation? I don’t care what an AMD chip was like 10-15 years ago because I’m not going to be buying one. If I buy an AMD for my next build, it will use their current design, current or current -1 generation. How that performs is all that matters.
Well, it sure thing I will choose AMD for my next desktop, as well as I’ve chosen AMD’s APUs for my office’s computers. On laptop market not everything is as well. Though if AMD and partners would finaly manage to produce decent laptop I might have a look there as well. Right now Intel has the ball on laptop’s side, anouncing 8-core 45w mobile chips with integrated GPU.
Have since 2011 a 35W TDP A8-3500M 4 cores APU based laptop integrating a Radeon HD 6620G GPU, decent performance for everyday use. Will go Ryzen when the time comes.
Very funny. I still use mine HP 8770w, replacing it with anything less performant is kind of downgrade.
Just because it’s Elite-ism…
What about the AMD Secure Processor™ Platform (formerly known as the Platform Security Processor [PSP])? Has AMD addressed user concerns with this? Unfortunately, Intel is still using the Intel ME Platform in newer Intel® Core™ i9 Processors.
tomchr,
Management processors can have legitimate purposes (as well as nefarious ones), but it’s unfortunate that cpu makers feel the need to run proprietary code on them. It doesn’t have to be this way. Most of these concerns could be addressed by open sourcing the management processors. The problem isn’t technical so much as it is bureaucratic. Manufacturers face no real repercussions since too few of us are complaining about proprietary CPU firmware. Since we don’t carry any influence, history suggests nothing will be done. Those of us who are bothered by it just have to deal with it.
https://hothardware.com/news/amd-confirms-it-will-not-be-opensourcing-epycs-platform-security-processor-code
There’s some hope that risc-v will eventually be a viable alternative. We can dream, but they have a long way to go and they may never reach critical mass needed to make it a practical platform. Still, I wish them luck since competition is exactly what the industry needs, consolidation has made it stale.
https://riscv.org/why-risc-v/
AMD has been repeatedly asked to open source the PSP, and they’ve responded. Basically, there’s third party proprietary code in there that they -can’t- open source. Short of a ground-up rewrite with totally in-house or libre IP, that’s not changing.
tidux,
I don’t buy it. The FOSS community is willing to build a clean room firmware implementation. Yet AMD refuses to cooperate at any level, even to allow others to do the work without violating anyone’s copyrights. Plenty of people in FOSS communities have the skills to undertake it.
https://libreboot.org/amd-libre.html
Despite the opportunities to work with us, they’ve spent all these years stonewalling and have made no progress to work with the FOSS side. AMD won, they got what they wanted, and so has intel. It sucks for open hardware that neither intel nor amd are championing open hardware. We can and should criticize them for it, but realistically what can we do about it when they don’t care? It’s one of the reasons we need more viable competition!
Simpsons reference “It’s a two party system”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7NeRiNefO0
I have chosen ARM for my desktop and am very interested to see what is going to happen on the RISC-V front. I have been told by SiFive people that something really nice is coming in the next few months.
I’m really looking forward to RISC-V !
From what I understand so far they’ve been able to stay away from using firmware, etc.