The wait is almost over. After months of teasing and weeks of leaks, AMD has finally announced that the Ryzen 7 line of processors will be making its way to the markets on the 2nd of March with a starting price of just USD329 (RM1,465).
At the AMD Ryzen Tech Day event, the company announced that the processors will be split into three tiers based on performance and price point. The high end models will be dubbed the Ryzen 7, the mid rangers will be Ryzen 5, while the budget-level processors will be found under Ryzen 3. On the 2nd of March, only the Ryzen 7 processors will be made available. Processors from the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 series will be launched at a later date.
For Ryzen 7, all three processors in the series will have eight cores as well as support for simultaneous multi-threading. The cream of the crop of the Ryzen 7 is the 1800X, featuring a base clock of 3.6GHz, a boost of 4.0GHz, and a TDP of 95W. Behind it is the 1700X, a chip that comes with a base clock of 3.4GHz, a boost of 3.8GHz, as well as a 95W TDP. Rounding up the series is the 1700 with its 3.0GHz base clock and a 3.7GHz boost.
While benchmarks of the Ryzen 7 processors are unlikely to appear until the launch date arrives, AMD’s demonstration shows that the Ryzen 7 1800X processor is capable of beating Intel’s i7-6900K Broadwell-E processor at the Cinebench R15 multithreaded rendering benchmark, Handbrake video encoding, as well as showing better frame rates for Sniper Elite 4 at 4K resolution.
As for prices, Goldfries is reporting that the local prices for the Ryzen 7 processors will be RM2,599 for the 1800X, RM1,899 for the 1700X, and RM1,599 for the 1700.
Source: Goldfries, Ars Technica, Anandtech