Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), smashed its biggest rival Intel Corp. in a price war with its latest Ryzen series chips with x86 CPU. After four years on development, AMD inc. officially released the details about its forthcoming Ryzen chip which will come in three variations, Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5, and Ryzen 3.
Among the above variations, only Ryzen 7 has been announced while rest will be announced later this year(most probably in Q2 2017). From the list, the flagship 1800X is its highest-performance chip as compared to other models of Ryzen 7 (1700X & 1700).
The 1800X which comes with 8 cores, 16 thread 95W TPD part with 3.6 GHz base clock speed and 4.0 GHz boost clock speed is priced at $499 and will go head to head against similarly configured 8-core, 16-thread Intel core i7-6900k, at $1050. Meaning, more performance at half the price.
Ryzen 7 1700X with the almost similar feature as 1800X, (8-core, 16 thread 95W part with 3.4 GHz base clock speed and 3.8 GHz boost clock speed) will be priced at $399, will compete against similarly spec’d Intel’s Core i76800K which is priced at $450. In case you’re wondering, in Cinebench multi-threaded test, the 1700X post 4{36e0204d4787f73122fcb1e17fa2cf53ad675a621d12c60fa6f762fd2fe714bb} higher score than the Core i7-6900K.
Lastly moving on the cheapest and world’s lowest power consuming 8-core desktop processor, the Ryzen 7 1700 chip, which also features 8-core, 16 thread part with 65W TPD having a base clock and boost clock speed 3.0 GHz and 3.7 GHz respectively. As compared to the Core i7-7700K, it’s 46{36e0204d4787f73122fcb1e17fa2cf53ad675a621d12c60fa6f762fd2fe714bb} faster in multi-threaded Cinebench. It is priced at $329, versus $350 comparable chip from Intel.
Pre-orders starts from 22nd February 2017, while the chipset will hit the market on 2nd March. The pricing and power of the chipset will surely attract a large number of PC buyers. In fact, the Ryzen 7 1700X, Ryzen 7 1800X, and Ryzen 7 1700 are already in the first, third, and fourth spots of Amazon’s list best selling CPUs, respectively. This is a good news for anybody except Intel.
