AMD today announced a high-performance addition to the Radeon Pro WX workstation graphics lineup with the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 graphics card, delivering the world's best workstation graphics performance for under $1,000 for real-time visualization, virtual reality (VR) and photorealistic rendering.
This week on the Podcast we talk about our three reviews this week, Threadripper 2 being officially announced, GTX 1180 leaks, Seagate's 480 MB/s hard drive, and more!
AMD has just officially announced its second-generation Ryzen Threadripper high-end desktop (HEDT) processor series. The first chip from this series will drop on August 13th and will be the flagship Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX. This is a 32-core, 64-thread part with a base clock of 3.0 GHz and will boost up to 4.2 GHz. It will be priced at $1799.
All of the listings for AMD's upcoming Threadripper II processors showed the original Threadripper packaging, which we figured was just a placeholder and it seems that we were right. With AMD bringing out 24-core and 32-core processors they definitely want something that is going to look great on the shelf. The first photos of the Threadripper II retail boxes have been leaked.
This week on the Podcast we talk about our reviews of the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, Viotek GN24C, and the Cougar Phontum Headset. Also on the agenda is Intel 9th Generation Core processors, AMD vs Intel advertising, AMD's B450 chipset, and more!
ASUS today announced that the ROG Strix, Prime and TUF Gaming series motherboards built on the AMD B450 chipset and supporting the latest AMD Ryzen processors are now available. AMD's Ryzen platform offers an incredible desktop compute experience with multithreaded horsepower plus accessible overclocking and gaming prowess.
AMD has officially announced the B450 chipset for socket AM4 processor and APUs. It is set as a mid-range solution for the 400-series chipset family and motherboards in this range will be priced anywhere from $70 to $160. Like the X470 chipset it has lower TDP power draw so it runs cooler and make due with smaller heatsinks (compared to X370). It also has improved CPU VRM and memory wiring specifications which AMD introduced with the X470 chipset. B450 also supports XFR 2 "Enhanced" and Precision Boost Overdrive.
AMD's upcoming Ryzen Threadripper II 2990X has appeared on the Canadian hardware etailer CanadaComputers. The processor is listed for $2399 CAD, which when you convert it comes out to around $1850 USD. The product page appears to list the chip as a "in-store back order" so the pricing should be close to the final MSRP.
This past year has been a real exciting one for processors. Before AMD launched their original Ryzen processors they were basically written off and dominated in the CPU world by Intel. AMD changed all of that with Ryzen, which proved to be one of the most exciting product launches in AMD history. It gave real competition to Intel in mainstream desktop space, so much so that Intel rushed out their "Coffee Lake" chips which came with increased core counts. At that time Intel remained on top with their 6-core, 12-thread Core i7-8700K, but today we are still going to see if that remains true. We have the new flagship AMD Ryzen 7 2700X which is a 8-core, 16-thread part which retails for only $329. Will this be the new king in the mainstream desktop platform? Read on as we find out!
During its Q2-2018 investors conference call AMD gave some hints of when it plans to launch its 3rd generation Ryzen processors, which will be based on the "Zen2" architecture. AMD CEO Lisa Su said in a Q&A portion of the call that the rollout of 7 nm Ryzen processors will only come after the launch of 7 nm EPYC.
