AMD - Zen chitchat

[watercooled]

Off-topic a bit - does anyone know when the Intel SSD 760p will actually be available to buy? Another day, another Intel paper launch...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

You never know, Intel are doing a Kaby Lake-G so maybe AMD are letting them test the waters, it would be nice to see AMD release a similar product but using infinity fabric to tie the HBM into both the GPU and CPU instead of what i believe Intel has done with Kaby Lake-G and only connected it to the GPU.

That Intel product seems to be more for premium products and the RAM cartel is not really helping with supply and general pricing anyway.

Having said that with the slower and slower sub £300 improvements,and the increasing cost,it might actually make sense at some point to use HBM2 in an IGP!

Off-topic a bit - does anyone know when the Intel SSD 760p will actually be available to buy? Another day, another Intel paper launch...

You mean like all their cheaper CFL motherboards??

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Some benchmarks have been leaked:

https://videocardz.com/74961/amd-ryz...chmarks-emerge

Not sure what RAM was used,or the settings in the games run.

[scaryjim]

Zotac is releasing NUC like devices with Raven Ridge:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12319...gebased-sff-pc

Full-fat desktop APUs too!

Although tied to DDR4 SODIMMS, so for now at least you're limited to 2400MHz RAM which does can the gaming performance a bit (I believe AMD's OC performance slides showed > 10% improvement just by moving from 2400MHz to 3200MHz RAM)...

[Xlucine]

We need this in dual-channel format:
http://hexus.net/tech/news/ram/11366...4-so-dimm-kit/
Probably easier to get dual channel ram buzzing at this speed, but harder from the business finance point of view as people buying M-ITX X299 systems are more likely to be whales than raven ridge purchasers. On the plus side, it'll probably also help "gaming" intel smallcore laptops

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Wow:

https://youtu.be/PrRvBWZ1AFA?t=16522

I really hope the chap is showing true results!! 50FPS to 60FPS at 1080p on GTA V on low settings with 2666MHZ DDR4,and he is not even using proper drivers apparently.

Edit!!

35FPS to 50FPS on PUBG at very low settings at 1080p.

Second Edit!!

The chap apparently got a Ryzen 5 2400G off Amazon earlier and has been testing it during a livestream.

[Corky34]

That's a seriously long video, from what i read he received the R5 2400G early due to an e-tailer slip-up so isn't bound by NDA but that also meant he didn't have access to the iGPU drivers, any idea if that was sorted before running gaming benchmarks and if so any details on how it was sorted, modified Crimson ReLive drivers, modified notebook drivers, leaked R5 2400G iGPU driver?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

That's a seriously long video, from what i read he received the R5 2400G early due to an e-tailer slip-up so isn't bound by NDA but that also meant he didn't have access to the iGPU drivers, any idea if that was sorted before running gaming benchmarks and if so any details on how it was sorted, modified Crimson ReLive drivers, modified notebook drivers, leaked R5 2400G iGPU driver?

Not sure as I only skimmed the video TBH,but he did have some BSODs so I imagine its certainly not the latest review drivers as AMD supplied those on a Ryzen branded USB stick.

I have got to say if the Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G can run some popular games reasonably well,at 1080p even at lowish settings that is more exciting for me than the last year of GPU releases!

[Corky34]

Lets just hope miners don't buy up all the stock because of the iGPU, i can imagine it now, farms of R5 2400G's.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Lets just hope miners don't buy up all the stock because of the iGPU, i can imagine it now, farms of R5 2400G's.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I actually want a CPU upgrade for my IB Core i7 in the next two years,as the new patches have caused performance "difficulties".

[watercooled]

The thing is you can't just buy a bunch of APUs and cram them into a case, you need motherboard, memory, etc for each one.

Edit: Also the latest 'ASIC-resistant' power-wasters are designed to be memory-heavy rather than ALU-bound, so an APU's GPU would likely do fairly poorly vs even a cheap discrete card.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The chap who did the earlier livestream compiled his results into a shorter video. He was using 32GB of 2666MHZ DDR4.

Mining seems to suck on the CPU,but the lack of L3 cache causes problems.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Tour of GF Fab8 in NY:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12399...itors-thoughts

Edit!!

Ryzen 3 2200G tested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSJ0bVJCmq8



They tested PUBG at 720p:

https://youtu.be/gSJ0bVJCmq8?t=1783

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Ryzen 3 2200G vs Core i3 8100 in 25 games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wOL39TAQwc

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

35w GE series APUs spotted:
https://videocardz.com/75004/asrock-...ven-ridge-apus

[Ozaron]

Anyone know when 2400g will be available in the UK? Actually looking to get one. That old Phenom 9150e needs to be retired and I'm not willing to share my machine anymore. 2400g is the perfect excuse to put something new together!

On a related note, MSI and Asus I believe put out updates for their boards for Raven Ridge, have Asrock done that yet? A320m Pro4 caught my eye.