News AMD Ryzen 5000 B2 Stepping CPUs Reportedly Don't Bring Any Benefits

[Admin]

AMD reportedly shares insight on the new B2 stepping for its Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 processors.

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[JamesJones44]

With the current chip shortages out there and the fact AMD still can't supply enough stock for the 5950x, I don't think we are going to see an XT this year.

 

[TCA_ChinChin]

With the current chip shortages out there and the fact AMD still can't supply enough stock for the 5950x, I don't think we are going to see an XT this year.

I think AMD can afford to put out XT models for the rest of the chips though. Locations at least in the US and in Europe have decent stock of 5600x and 5800x at MSRP and places like Microcenter have even had 5600x on sale for 279.99 recently. It's mostly GPU shortages on the PC side of things, so I wouldn't be surprised if AMD does a replacement of B0 with B2 or a release of an XT variant sometime this year.

 

[ginthegit]

I was going to call this a Pro Intel , and bash on AMD fest.... But they have mentioned that the AMD B2 stepping has other benefits. And benefits where it counts too.

If Security was the improvement, then I would buy the B2 stepping just for that alone. But I am sure that perhaps they have tweaked another few things too. But with AMD being tight lipped, I'd say security was the issue that B2 was designed to fix.

And to give Intel a Bashing. Intel would not do this, intel just sends out patches and performance hitting crap and waits to the next gen to fix anything.

 

[kaalus]

I don't know about the US, but here in the UK, for the last few weeks all models of the latest Ryzen, including 5900 and 5950 have been available at MSRP, or even slightly below. Pretty much all stores have them, even brick and mortar Currys. I bought one myself a couple of weeks ago. Sadly RTX 30xx and the latest Radeon still nowhere to be seen.

 

[Gomez Addams]

"Unlike Intel, AMD doesn't use the term stepping for its processors. Instead, the chipmaker prefers the term "revision," which is just another word for a similar idea. "

Stepping is a specific thing. It refers to masks used in the lithography process which is performed by machines that are called "steppers." A revision is a more general term and takes into account all other process steps used to make a chip. If you were to run CPU-Z you would see that revision and stepping are displayed as separate items.