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Finally after weeks and weeks of rumours and speculation, AMD have confirmed the release date for Ryzen and some specs.

Ryzen processors will be available in stores on March 2nd. Pre-orders may be available soon, but I wouldn't be pre-ordering a CPU yet since we've seen no benchmarks(outside of AMD themselves) and motherboards aren't available yet anyway.

The only confirmed chips from AMD right now is the Ryzen 7 1700, 1700X, and 1800X. The 1700 is the 65W 8C/16T part, which will have a base clock speed of 3GHz, and a boost speed of 3.7GHz. The 1700X is a 95W 8C/16T part with 3.4GHz base, and 3.8GHz boost. Lastly, the 1800X is another 95W 8C/16T part with 3.6GHz base, 4GHz boost.

Okay, pricing, what most people are looking for confirmation of, right?;
R7 1700 - $329
R7 1700X - $399
R7 1800X - $499

The 1700X looks like a pretty killer choice so far IMO, but we'll need to wait for proper benchmarks.

No solid news about the lower end Ryzen parts yet, so as I imagined, it looks like the high end/enthusiast grade chips are coming first, and then the lower end 4 core and 6 core parts should come soon after, hopefully.

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Is the Ryzen release worldwide?
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Shiv wrote Is the Ryzen release worldwide?

There's no way they're going to release it only in the US, but there are countries where PC components are pretty tough to get, so I imagine they might have to wait a while to get their hands on Ryzen chips. I'm not sure if Ryzen chips are going to be available in the UK on the same day as the US, but I hope so lol.
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Shiv wrote Is the Ryzen release worldwide?

There's no way they're going to release it only in the US, but there are countries where PC components are pretty tough to get, so I imagine they might have to wait a while to get their hands on Ryzen chips. I'm not sure if Ryzen chips are going to be available in the UK on the same day as the US, but I hope so lol.


By worldwide I meant UK tbh. I havent seen anything online about the UK release of it, going to have to keep an eye out for it I guess. Hoping the price doesnt vary massively against the US prices.

Are you going to get yourself one then?
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Shiv wrote By worldwide I meant UK tbh. I havent seen anything online about the UK release of it, going to have to keep an eye out for it I guess. Hoping the price doesnt vary massively against the US prices.

Yeah, I'd be very surprised if Ryzen chips aren't available in the UK. If they're not available here at the same time as the US, we'll get them shortly after for sure. Pricing should probably still be better than Intel, as in the R7 1700 for a little less than 7700k.

Shiv wrote Are you going to get yourself one then?

Unlikely tbh. 6 core Ryzen SKU's are looking pretty interesting to me at this point, and I would quite like one of those, but my 4790k is still fine for my uses.
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Ryzen has me in some battle with myself. I REALLY want to stay on the X99 platform, but Ryzen over here has looked promising with the speculated benchmarks that have been floating around (unless those have been confirmed.) If Ryzen really holds true, then I guess my 1080TI build will be on Ryzen, my first AMD build since the R9 280X build I had a few years back.
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TaigaAisaka wrote Ryzen has me in some battle with myself. I REALLY want to stay on the X99 platform, but Ryzen over here has looked promising with the speculated benchmarks that have been floating around (unless those have been confirmed.) If Ryzen really holds true, then I guess my 1080TI build will be on Ryzen, my first AMD build since the R9 280X build I had a few years back.

If I was on X99, I probably wouldn't be upgrading to be honest. If you have a 6 core X99 part and the 1700X/1800X beat those by a decent bit, then maybe the $400 or $500 Ryzen part could be a good upgrade, but only if your current CPU is holding you back or not doing something well enough that you'd like it to. For people buying new, Ryzen may be better than X99, but for people on X99, I most likely wouldn't suggest budging yet, especially since X299 shouldn't be far off.
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Shiv wrote By worldwide I meant UK tbh. I havent seen anything online about the UK release of it, going to have to keep an eye out for it I guess. Hoping the price doesnt vary massively against the US prices.

Yeah, I'd be very surprised if Ryzen chips aren't available in the UK. If they're not available here at the same time as the US, we'll get them shortly after for sure. Pricing should probably still be better than Intel, as in the R7 1700 for a little less than 7700k.

Shiv wrote Are you going to get yourself one then?

Unlikely tbh. 6 core Ryzen SKU's are looking pretty interesting to me at this point, and I would quite like one of those, but my 4790k is still fine for my uses.


I'm probably going to do a whole system rebuild in the upcoming months so Ryzen may well be a good choice as part of the build, I'm just hoping the UK price doesn't cloud my judgement.

Not quite sure if It would be worth the money paying for the Ryzen 7, wouldn't be needing all those cores unless circumstances change.
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Shiv wrote I'm probably going to do a whole system rebuild in the upcoming months so Ryzen may well be a good choice as part of the build, I'm just hoping the UK price doesn't cloud my judgement.

Not quite sure if It would be worth the money paying for the Ryzen 7, wouldn't be needing all those cores unless circumstances change.

If you've got an i5 or i7 from Haswell or more recent, then it may not be a good upgrade if you're just gaming, especially if your current CPU doesn't hold you back. That being said, the 6 core Ryzen parts look interesting to me as they should be priced similarly to i5's, with hopefully better multithread performance than i7s and similar gaming performance to i5s(though probably a little slower).
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Shiv wrote I'm probably going to do a whole system rebuild in the upcoming months so Ryzen may well be a good choice as part of the build, I'm just hoping the UK price doesn't cloud my judgement.

Not quite sure if It would be worth the money paying for the Ryzen 7, wouldn't be needing all those cores unless circumstances change.

If you've got an i5 or i7 from Haswell or more recent, then it may not be a good upgrade if you're just gaming, especially if your current CPU doesn't hold you back. That being said, the 6 core Ryzen parts look interesting to me as they should be priced similarly to i5's, with hopefully better multithread performance than i7s and similar gaming performance to i5s(though probably a little slower).


Currently running an i5 4690k.

Not going to be doing much other than gaming, maybe the odd video editing and rendering but that's about it. Idk, I'm not in need of a massive upgrade, its just nice to have I guess.

Are you from the UK too then?
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