AMD's Ryzen launches March 2, outperforming Intel's Core i7

[schack]

Tom - I'm assuming you'll have access to all the new CPUs tomorrow after the embargo is broken. Can you provide us Fritzmarks and Stockfish benchmarks? As a chess enthusiast we would be able to trust your results were properly achieved.

[Laskos]

"The full AMD Ryzen launch day slide deck has leaked out." Maybe it is true and benchmarks seem pretty good, all in all Ryzen 7 1700X just below 8 core i7 6900K. No Fritz bench here.

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-1700x-r ... enchmarks/

[jorose]

I am super impressed by the stats to be honest. Even if you argue that it's below the i7 6900k, which I think is not so clear, it manages that performance at a much lower TDP and at a fraction of the cost. I haven't been following the CPU races much recently but this looks really interesting.

[j_romang]

French test with stockfish and komodo :
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/956-14/ ... omodo.html

[Laskos]

French test with stockfish and komodo :
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/956-14/ ... omodo.html

Wow, seem very good!

[Steve Maughan]

WOW - this is the new chip for computer chess!!

French test with stockfish and komodo :
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/956-14/ ... omodo.html

[Laskos]

WOW - this is the new chip for computer chess!!

French test with stockfish and komodo :
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/956-14/ ... omodo.html

Blows out 5960X, same number of cores, but at exorbitant price, which was the pinnacle of desktop processors 2 years ago.

[Steve Maughan]

....and 32 core Naples is around the corner!!

Anyone know the likely price-point for Naples?

WOW - this is the new chip for computer chess!!

French test with stockfish and komodo :
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/956-14/ ... omodo.html

Blows out 5960X, same number of cores, but at exorbitant price, which was the pinnacle of desktop processors 2 years ago.

[Laskos]

....and 32 core Naples is around the corner!!

Anyone know the likely price-point for Naples?

Naples is top of the line "enterprise chip" that is designed for the server market. My guess is it will cost at least $2,000. New Xeons are much more expensive than that core per core, I never dreamt of having a new 16-core dual Xeon, was just looking at second hand, but never managed to assemble one. I will go for Ryzen, these are great news.

WOW - this is the new chip for computer chess!!

French test with stockfish and komodo :
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/956-14/ ... omodo.html

Blows out 5960X, same number of cores, but at exorbitant price, which was the pinnacle of desktop processors 2 years ago.

[Leo]

....and 32 core Naples is around the corner!!

Anyone know the likely price-point for Naples?

WOW - this is the new chip for computer chess!!

French test with stockfish and komodo :
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/956-14/ ... omodo.html

Blows out 5960X, same number of cores, but at exorbitant price, which was the pinnacle of desktop processors 2 years ago.

A dual 16 core Intel server is around $10,000 to $12,000. Every 64 GB of RAM is $450 more. I would guess that a Naples server would be around $5,000 to $7,000. FYI, Naples has the option of two 32 core chips on the same board.