News Watch AMD's Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 'Where Gaming Begins' Livestream Here October 8 at 9am PT

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Watch AMD's Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 launch event here on October 8 at 9am PT.

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[atomicWAR]

First!!!

 

[atomicWAR]

No seriously I might even get up to watch this livestream in Hawaii at 6am. I am super excited to see what AMD has up their sleeve!

 

[olaf]

No seriously I might even get up to watch this livestream in Hawaii at 6am. I am super excited to see what AMD has up their sleeve!

Yey for living in Europe i guess

 

[TheDane]

Europe is not so bad - perfect time for me (local time 18:00)

 

[m3city]

All that's left is for AMD to finally take the gaming performance lead from Intel to assume complete dominance of the desktop PC market.

Wouldn't some of you agree, that AMD already has an actually meaningfull performance lead? And by lead I personally understand that you get better multithread, multitasking performance in relation to cash spent for CPU/mobo altogether, and referenced to actual power draw. Intel's lead by 5-10% of fps when one considers already high fps (~150) is not really usable.
On the other hand, it's hard to say that such runner up as AMD - smaller, poorer, definitly lower market share in all areas can become a leader. It won't, what it can do is to provide GOOD (I don't use BETTER on purpose) product at reasonable price.

 

[1foxracing]

I have a feeling this is going to me similar to Nvidia's recent launch where they will announce a load of good stuff but you won't actually be able to purchase any of it for 6 months or so.
Today you still can't find a R3 3300X for sale.

 

[InvalidError]

Wouldn't some of you agree, that AMD already has an actually meaningfull performance lead?

As far as gaming is concerned, which is specificially what you quoted was about, Intel is still leading by 10-20% in high refresh rate gaming. This is why it got called the last frontier of AMD's dominance. AMD has the lead in nearly everything else, Zen 3 will give it the last ~20% it needs to beat Intel at nearly everything at least until Rocket Lake comes out next year.

 

[JayNor]

what are the estimates for Rocket Lake performance increases vs Comet Lake-S?

 

[Makaveli]

Europe is not so bad - perfect time for me (local time 18:00)

I would have to agree its 12pm for me so right in the middle of my lunch break.

Working from home so I would have been watching regardless.

 

[Homer J.]

I have a feeling this is going to me similar to Nvidia's recent launch where they will announce a load of good stuff but you won't actually be able to purchase any of it for 6 months or so.
Today you still can't find a R3 3300X for sale.

Shush AMD would never ever, evvvvaaaaa do such a thing they are the good guys according to a boatload of forum fanboys.

 

[InvalidError]

Ouch, $300 for the 5600X, ~40% higher price for 20% better overall performance.

 

[digitalgriffin]

$549 for a 5900X. Youch.

Wasn't the 3900X $449 at launch? And now commonly available for <$400?

I think they bit off more than they can chew with that.

Bring on competition with rocket lake.

 

[thepersonwithaface45]

I was pretty underwhelmed by those CPUs. The % performance compared to the 10900k isn't worth an extra $150 imo
Pcie4.0 might be worth it but I'm skipping CPUs this gen

 

[egda23]

Disappointing speech. They were essentially touting a ....... toy.
Practically nothing about scientific (my field) and professional usage for such an amazing piece of hardware

 

[Evaldino]

Ok, AMD went expensive, but CPUs are not bad at all... just need to wait for Intel reaction and AMD’s response in lowering the price, and I’m in for 5800x (instead of my current 3600)

 

[Flayed]

Top performance gets to charge top dollar I guess. Going to stick with my 3600 for now.

 

[TJ Hooker]

$549 for a 5900X. Youch.

Wasn't the 3900X $449 at launch? And now commonly available for <$400?

3900X was $500. All the Zen 3 chips announced have a $50 higher MSRP compared to Zen 2 chips.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ryzen-9-3900x-7-3700x-review,6214.html

Although the fact that there's apparently no 5700X means that the MSRP for an 8 core Zen 3 is arguably $120 higher than it was for Zen 2. Same goes for the lack of a 5600, meaning a 6 core Zen 3 is effectively $100 higher for Zen 2.

Maybe they'll release a 5700(X) and/or 5600 non-X at a later point, once they've spent some time selling their higher margin chips to people willing to pay a premium.

 

[drivinfast247]

Disappointing speech. They were essentially touting a ....... toy.
Practically nothing about scientific (my field) and professional usage for such an amazing piece of hardware

Well, that's because this was a Ryzen launch. That's why they said "gaming CPU".

You need to wait for the Threadripper debut.

 

[drivinfast247]

I was pretty underwhelmed by those CPUs. The % performance compared to the 10900k isn't worth an extra $150 imo
Pcie4.0 might be worth it but I'm skipping CPUs this gen

Uhhhhh.... where can you find a 10900k for $400?

 

[thepersonwithaface45]

Uhhhhh.... where can you find a 10900k for $400?

I was talking about vs the 5950x which is $800 where as a 10900k is ~$650 usd

 

[egda23]

Uhhhhh.... where can you find a 10900k for $400?

Yep, just had a look, and here in Europe it is 599 euros

 

[drivinfast247]

I was talking about vs the 5950x

I couldn't watch the video, but I listened. What did they compare the 5900x to?

 

[egda23]

Well, that's because this was a Ryzen launch. That's why they said "gaming CPU".

You need to wait for the Threadripper debut.

I do not agree of course. A CPU is a CPU. You can do anything with it (well, according to Mr Turing).
In my field nobody is using a Threadripper category of CPU. There is something called a "budget" in scientific research and analysis

 

[cryoburner]

~40% higher price for 20% better overall performance.

Well, 20% higher if we compare launch pricing with the 3600X. I do think the pricing would have been softened a bit if they announced something like a $230-$250 non-X chip though, along with higher core-count counterparts. I imagine those will be coming not long thereafter though.

Disappointing speech. They were essentially touting a ....... toy.
Practically nothing about scientific (my field) and professional usage for such an amazing piece of hardware

Well, they did tout a 19% average performance uplift in applications compared to Zen 2. Whether that applies to mold-spore predictive analysis or whatever field you are involved in is anyone's guess, but it probably wouldn't have been all that practical for them to cover every piece of software in existence for what is essentially a quick announcement and preview of what their new hardware has to offer. And the event was called "Where Gaming Begins", so you probably should have expected that. There should be reviews out in a few weeks or so with more detailed performance numbers covering more software, and it's not like you can fully trust manufacturer-provided numbers to be representative of typical performance anyway.

I was talking about vs the 5950x which is $800 where as a 10900k is ~$650 usd

You're comparing a 16-core processor against a 10-core processor. For anything but heavily-multithreaded applications that fully utilize all cores, it makes more sense to compare it with the 8 and 12-core parts.