AMD Ryzen Initial Shipments to Eclipse One Million

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The initial shipments of AMD Ryzen CPUs is supposed to exceed one million units. MSI has created 15 new motherboards designs for the new AMD lineup and Asustek has 10 - 11 boards coming. These are just a part of the 80+ new boards expected to be available for the AMD 1800x, 1700x and 1700 processors. With this amount of confidence being shown by the motherboard manufacturers and AMD, it's really hard to keep my finger off the pre-order button. Must wait for benchmarks...

AMD will start selling its new Ryzen processors in early March with an initial shipment target expected to top one million units. AMD's Ryzen processors are manufactured by Globalfoundries's 14nm FinFET process and AMD is expected to release models including 1800X, 1700X and 1700, priced at US$499, US$399 and US$329, respectively.
 
Is this from a press release? Where are the links :)
 
A lot of motherboard manufacturer support right out of the box. That's good to see.

I'll wait for benchmarks, but at this point it does look like solid competition for Intel. Even if it's not faster or equal to Intel, if prices are good and performance is high, then it should do great. Best bang for the buck.
 
It's starting to look like AMD has pulled off a more efficient architecture and this is wonderful news. Who said an underdog can't become the comeback kid more than once?

Competition, competition, competition <3 :)
 
Benchmarks. I've been holding hitting the submit order button for my Intel box for almost 2 months now....
 
Slade said:
Benchmarks. I've been holding hitting the submit order button for my Intel box for almost 2 months now....
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They'll come soon enough. I'm in no hurry either. If they are shipping 1mil chips, there will be hopefully plenty to go around. We just lose that fresh new smell by waiting, but its no big deal. Let someone else go thru the teething.
 
The nerd in me says I need one so I can give more CPU cores to VMs, but the adult with a working computer in me says my Jeep needs a new bumper instead.

Hard not to be excited and I can't wait for the reviews.
 
Dr. Righteous said:
What a great year this is turning out to be!
First Trump elected POTUS and AMD roars back first with POLARIS and now with RYZEN. ;)

It was not that long ago everyone was standing around AMD's grave taking a piss on it saying how much they sucked. :p
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I wouldn't say Polaris was a roaring success.
 
Lisa Su obviously pilots the company better than Rory Reed did. She is focused on making AMD hit hard in the high-end, though; as hard as it is to say: this isn't a home run, more like a 3 base run. Ryzen is still slower than Skyby Lake in IPC AND clockspeeds, so Intel isnt exactly shaking in their boots. Ryzen still has an uphill battle to fight.
 
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I don't know, is that a lot? I'm not familiar with release numbers. But 1 million units for the entire world, including the entire processor lineup doesn't seem that many.
 
M76 said:
I don't know, is that a lot? I'm not familiar with release numbers. But 1 million units for the entire world, including the entire processor lineup doesn't seem that many.
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It probably is good if they sold out the entire line up. Still it is peanuts to the hundred of millions Intel has sold over the last few years.
 
KazeoHin said:
Lisa Su obviously pilots the company better than Rory Reed did. She is focused on making AMD hit hard in the high-end, though; as hard as it is to say: this isn't a home run, more like a 3 base run. Ryzen is still slower than Skyby Lake in IPC AND clockspeeds, so Intel isnt exactly shaking in their boots. Ryzen still has an uphill battle to fight.
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But the sheer number of cores Ryzen has could leave Intel in the dust and force them to lower the price on their high end offerings as they are both slower and more expensive. So Ryzen will do just fine.
 
M76 said:
I don't know, is that a lot? I'm not familiar with release numbers. But 1 million units for the entire world, including the entire processor lineup doesn't seem that many.
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ASP of $399 x 1,000,000 = $399,000,000....+ chipsets. That ain't no chump change for AMD if you look at their typical numbers.

NewEgg is out of stock. Amazon is only selling stock at absurd prices (resellers/gougers)

I'm quite frankly shocked. But I'm happy to eat my own words about AMD's future status.
 
DigitalGriffin said:
But the sheer number of cores Ryzen has could leave Intel in the dust and force them to lower the price on their high end offerings as they are both slower and more expensive. So Ryzen will do just fine.
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Intel is faster clock for clock still and considering 6900 has been out for almost a year now. All Intel needs to do is drop the price on their high end and will crush AMD. Only fanboys think Intel is shaking in their boots at the moment.
 
vegeta535 said:
Intel is faster clock for clock still and considering 6900 has been out for almost a year now. All Intel needs to do is drop the price on their high end and will crush AMD.
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Looking at leaked benches, the 6900 is slower than X1800 when engaging all the cores. And if you are doing core for core, single threaded on a 6900, the X1800 wouldn't be that far behind because the 6900 has to be downclocked as well compared to a 6700K/6600K.

So you're right a price drop is in order. But guess what that does? Yep, create downward pricing pressure on the rest of the lineup. Finally 8 core/16thread chips might be affordable and we might see some decent generational performance increases from Intel now.
 
DigitalGriffin said:
ASP of $399 x 1,000,000 = $399,000,000....+ chipsets. That ain't no chump change for AMD if you look at their typical numbers.

NewEgg is out of stock. Amazon is only selling stock at absurd prices (resellers/gougers)

I'm quite frankly shocked. But I'm happy to eat my own words about AMD's future status.
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I doubt it is that simple. We don't how much AMD put in Ryzen R&D. How much it cost them to produce a chip. They could be still billions in the hole with Ryzen.
 
vegeta535 said:
I doubt it is that simple. We don't how much AMD put in Ryzen R&D. How much it cost them to produce a chip. They could be still billions in the hole with Ryzen.
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AMD did the investment, so therefore it's all gravy now. How much in senior notes is a big unknown. But 1,000,000 out of the gate will lead to a big quarter for AMD even if they make the scheduled loan payment.
 
DigitalGriffin said:
Looking at leaked benches, the 6900 is slower than X1800 when engaging all the cores. And if you are doing core for core, single threaded on a 6900, the X1800 wouldn't be that far behind because the 6900 has to be downclocked as well compared to a 6700K/6600K.

So you're right a price drop is in order. But guess what that does? Yep, create downward pricing pressure on the rest of the lineup. Finally 8 core/16thread chips might be affordable and we might see some decent generational performance increases from Intel now.
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Yes at stock Ryzen is barely faster. The 6900k is only 3.2GHz while 1800x boosts all cores to 4Ghz. You can over clock the 6900k to 4.4Ghz normally. If Intel drops the hammer AMD is not going to win a price war with Intel.
 
vegeta535 said:
Yes at stock Ryzen is barely faster. The 6900k is only 3.2GHz while 1800x boosts all cores to 4Ghz. You can over clock the 6900k to 4.4Ghz normally. If Intel drops the hammer AMD is not going to win a price war with Intel.
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AMD might be able to make it cheaper than Intel. Ryzen has a smaller # of transistors and a smaller core even though the process node is larger. than the 6900. That means 1) Better yield 2) Overall lower cost.

BTW: I imagine you can overclock a Ryzen too. But I haven't seen too many 6900 with all cores running hit 4.4 stable. So until the reviews are out we won't be 100% sure of who's faster overclocked.

That said, the bulk of sales go to businesses not us OCs as a niche group. Big business very rarely goes after the max overclock for obvious reasons. They don't overclock at all. They want low power consumption and low up front cost.
 
Modred189 said:
I really want a new system. Nostalgia make me crave an AMD system.

But I just don't need it. #2500kRemorse
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I'm running 4.4GHz Ivybridge, which is no slouch. And I still want it! (If the leaks are true).
 
DigitalGriffin said:
AMD might be able to make it cheaper than Intel. Ryzen has a smaller # of transistors and a smaller core even though the process node is larger. than the 6900. That means 1) Better yield 2) Overall lower cost.

BTW: I imagine you can overclock a Ryzen too. But I haven't seen too many 6900 with all cores running hit 4.4 stable. So until the reviews are out we won't be 100% sure of who's faster overclocked.

That said, the bulk of sales go to businesses not us OCs as a niche group. Big business very rarely goes after the max overclock for obvious reasons. They don't overclock at all. They want low power consumption and low up front cost.
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And most business don't care about core count. They buy cheapest machines normally. Any company that deals with rendering already has high end workstations that meet their needs and will see little to no benefit to upgrade to Ryzen from their current 8 core+ Intel workstation.
 
This is one of the most exciting times to be a PC person in a long time. Intel has become so boring with their CPU releases. I hope we see some innovation (or at least lower prices).
I probably won't be upgrading in the next six months (at least), but it's great to see choices and competition.
 
vegeta535 said:
And most business don't care about core count. They buy cheapest machines normally. Any company that deals with rendering already has high end workstations that meet their needs and will see little to no benefit to upgrade to Ryzen from their current 8 core+ Intel workstation.
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New servers are bought ALL the time. That's why servers are intels bread and butter. And you would be wrong: Servers do thrive on more cores. Uptake by big business might be slow for one reason: This is a new architecture. So they may dip their toes in with a few test systems for comparison sakes. But 1,000,000 out of the gate is nothing short of astounding.

I don't know your background, but you have a lot of learning to do about big business.
 
rgMekanic said:
Review embargo is supposed to be up on the 28th :)

And so will my stocks.. which I shall cash in on AMD CPU goodness..
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I've enjoyed the climb with AMD's stocks for a while now. Here's hoping Vega is strong enough to push them even higher!
 
§kynet said:
Compare initial shipments to years of sales, sure why not.

Maybe, but Intel is hooked on high margins.
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I think Intel's shareholders would have a hard time accepting significantly reduced margins, especially as the costs of new processes and foundries continue to climb. I'm curious if Intel will open up their foundries to others, like Qualcomm, Mediatek, etc. Fabbing chips for others is one way they can increase revenue that they rarely pursue (I think largely because it would quickly become transparent just how little money it costs to make a chip they can sell for $1100, for example). If price wars are on the horizon, holding that close to the best will become less and less important.
 
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