AMD Ryzen Pro

[purple stain]

What do you guys think of the Ryzen Pro lineup AMD is releasing? It's aimed at the corporate market but they are going to be using the chips with the highest wafer yields for this lineup. Does this mean that they might overclock better?


http://www.anandtech.com/show/11591/amd-launches-ryzen-pro-cpus-enhanced-security-longer-warranty-better-quality

 

[captaincharisma]

this would be like buying an intel xenon CPU for a gaming machine. the corporate CPU's are not designed for gaming or meant to be overclocked

 

[Snipergod87]

Nothing wrong using a Xeon CPU for gaming, a 4Ghz same architecture and core count Xeon would be identical to a consumer variant.
My guess is that they will be completely locked in terms of multipliers

 

[Blake_24]

Even if these chips do overclock a little better, and that is possible, You will have to pay a higher price for them. If you wanted to buy the pro 1700x for average use such as gaming/Content creation I think it would just be a better idea to buy the 1800x because it has a higher clock out of the box anyways. Either that or buy a normal 1700(x) and just overclock that since it will most likely go to the same clock anyways.

 

[James Mason]

These are specifically designed for enterprise type use, and their extra features will be completely worthless to any home/non-corporate user.
These sound similar to what Intel did with the Core2 line with S suffix for cpus (Q8400s) which were basically the same CPUs but just operating at a lower TDP because they were slightly higher quality.

When you're a big corporation, energy costs matter, so the lower CPU energy usage is a worthwhile factor over 5-7 years of use. (When you multiply it by 500-1000-5000)

 

[purple stain]

I realize that the new features are completely worthless to anything outside of corporate use. In my head I'm just seeing the same Ryzen CPU(with added security features) but coming from high wafer yields. Also I can't seem to find these processors anywhere and they were released today. Maybe they are only available through Internal supplies to corporations?

http://products.amd.com/en-us/search/cpu/amd-ryzen%E2%84%A2-pro/amd-ryzen%E2%84%A2-7-pro/amd-ryzen%E2%84%A2-7-pro-1700x/165