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CPUs main bulk of the cost is research. Intel spends far more on research which is why they can already fit 24 cores/48 threads at 2.4 GHz, with 165W TDP and 60MB inside a LGA 2011 package. (Xeon E7 8894v4)
Old news. The newest Xeons go to 28 cores.
On AMD's side, Naples which should be launching in the near-future will have 32C64T with 8-channel RAM and 64 PCIe lanes per socket. That should be a game-changer capable of putting AMD back on the datacenter map with performance approaching Intel's 4S servers in a 2S form factor.
Intel's server chip prices may be about to have a much needed sanity check.
Thats going to be 1 chunky CPU lol.
I never in my life thought id own an 8 core 16 thread CPU, Intels version of it is £1000, I thought AMD's version would be £700 ish, with this in mind my intentions were to wait for RyZen 5 and grab one of the 6 core 12 thread varients, to my surprise when they finally released the prices, I was shocked at how cheap they were, I was going to get the 1700X, but the way these things shot off the shelves, the only option I could get my hands on was the 1700, so glad I did.
1700X and 1800X has hardly any overclocking headroom, as 1 person already mentioned, they all pretty much do 4ghz, lets forget boost and XFR here for a moment because as soon as you start overclocking one of these CPU's, these 2 features are disabled, so if you take the stocks of the 1800X 3.6ghz, overclocks to 4 / 4.1ghz thats a 400-500mhz overclock, 1700X stock is 3.4ghz overclocks to about 3.9 / 4ghz, thats a 500-600mhz overclock, 1700 stock is 3ghz and overclocks to 3.9 / 4ghz, thats a 900mhz-1ghz overclock, and save money at the same time.
Rocking with 16gb DDR4 3200mhz ram too, its lightening fast, I can only imagine things are going to get better and better for AMD with one team working on Zen2 and promising to support the AM4 socket for 4 - 5 years, sod intels tick tock money making scam......(more like rippp roffff)
Its pretty enlightening how quickly AMD has addressed problems with RyZen and fixed them, its only been out for 2 months and already they have fixed most RAM issues with the next fix coming this month, and games have already started optimising for RyZen, if you look at recent benchmarks, theres now hardly any difference in the latest games between RyZen and Intel, thats pretty darn quick, all those arguments in the begining, oh stick with Intel because RyZen is crap at gaming are a thing of the past, even Intels Z170 had problems in the begining and there Z270 chipset had massive problems, but everyone has forgotten about those now its all running smooth, the same will happen for AM4.
RyZen was a new technology, built from the grounds up, nothing has been done like this in decades, every CPU manufacturer has just improved on there technology over the years, this time AMD went right back to the drawing board and with a clean sheet of paper, started redesigning its CPU's entirely, of course there were going to be teething problems.