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AMD Ryzen octa-core CPUs - worth buying?

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The good news with the latest AMD chips, they still support Windows 7: http://www.pcmag.com/news/351565/amd-ryzen-processors-will-support-windows-7

 

The only octa-core chips available are the AMD Ryzen 1700, 1700X and 1800X: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3171161/components-processors/amds-ryzen-launches-march-2-outperforming-intels-core-i7-at-a-fraction-of-the-price.html

 

The real question is, are they worth buying? AMD chips before Ryzen are perfect for budget users. Recent test results of those octa-core chips are underwhelming for gaming, except for everything else.

 

Even someone thought of buying and creating a new gaming rig with an AMD Ryzen 1800X chip and a GeForce 1080 Ti card: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3346331/ryzen-cpu-gtx-1080.html

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The forum thread you provided only has posts from the 1st of march, you know? Like before the release?

It always depends on what you're doing. Per core performance is worse, but stuff which supports multiple cores (like editing software, programming, etc) gains more from Ryzen than an equally priced Intel. As games right now basically flat out after 4 cores single core performance is more interesting for gaming. It all depends on the games which come out in the future. If multithreading is expanding Ryzen gets more traction. If you're doing a lot of stuff while gaming it also can be worthwhile to look into them.

In short:

Ryzen CPUs are better in doing more stuff at the same time.

Intel CPUs are better in doing one specific thing way faster.

 

Also underwhelming for gaming? Doom gets to 200fps with it, wouldn't call that underwhelming.

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The Ryzen chips are underwhelming for recent games as many people noticed. Games using DirectX 11 and lower run faster though.

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Ryzen CPUs are better in doing more stuff at the same time.

Intel CPUs are better in doing one specific thing way faster.

That generalization is not entirely true. The Intel X99 platform contains 6, 8 and 10 core CPU's that are great at "doing multiple things at the same time". An 8-core i7-6900k beats a R7 1800X in certain tasks and the R7 1800X beats a i7-6900k in certain other tasks

 

The Ryzen CPU's are great value for money in multi-threaded workloads such as virtual machines, software compiling, servers and video and photo editing while the i7-7700k is a better gaming CPU due to higher instructions per clock and higher frequency as games barely use beyond 4-cores save for a few titles.

 

Ryzen is an entirely new architecture Windows doesn't even know how to use it correctly. This means that the performance of the R7 CPU's will increase in time with UEFI updates and Windows updates. The performance increases will probably be gradual and not massive, but they will be gains nonetheless.

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Correction on the OS AMD Ryzen chips are supporting. They must have changed their minds and decided to support only Windows 10 and above versions: http://www.pcgamer.com/amd-confirms-there-will-be-no-ryzen-drivers-for-windows-7

 

Not sure if Linux, Mac OS X and the other OSs are supported in Intel's Kaby Lake and AMD Ryzen.

 

Also **** Microsoft: http://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-turns-off-windows-781-updates-for-ryzen-and-kaby-lake

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**** AMD and Intel, more like. They're in it as much as MS.

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