AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 50th Anniversary Edition Pictured
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AlienALX
Well-known member
I tell you what it's better than.
£185 core I3 with two cores and four threads.
So go Lisa, I say. Ryzen is like Flash. It's saved every one of us.
KingNosser
Well-known member
I recently upgraded from my old 2500k to a Ryzen 1700 system and the difference is amazing and it only cost me £155 for the chip now that is a deal I won't be going back to Intel anytime soon, thou I will pick up an end of life Ryzen chip once AM4 is no more.
AMD is doing well right now and I hope it continues and they start to gain even more market share, they deserve it atm.
AMD is doing well right now and I hope it continues and they start to gain even more market share, they deserve it atm.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Yup and what did we have before? A CPU pretty much identical, slower even (the 5960X for a grand).
Intel's idea of a celebration is a unlocked dual core Pentium, with a price premium.
I really can't believe any one would see anything negative in this at all.
AlienALX
Well-known member
hahaha maybe it's as close to they'll get to rubbing other things on other parts of her body
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
These types of products are usually for collectors who will put them in glass cabinets.
demonking
New member
Its simply a limited number IHS' will get laser etching and a different box. No extra R&D,testing, marketing, ES', reviews ect why would you when it will be competing against your own launch due in the very near future.
My gut feeling is that intel held back the 8700k so that they had a reason to charge more for the 8086k, which by coincidence the "limited edition" 8086k are still available in most retailers....
They should have released zen 2 for their 50th and made a real big song and dance about it. The media would have loved it "AMD hits gold on 50th birthday" ect.
WYP
News Guru
The only problem with this is that Zen 2 is still a few months away. AMD needed a product for their anniversary, not after it. That said, a 50th-anniversary launch version of their 3700X (or whatever it is called) would be a good call.
WillSK
Active member
Don't get me wrong, as a long time Intel user i'm rooting for AMD and will probably upgrade to the new Zen when they come out this year.
Just seems like a weird product to me outside of having it as a cabinet piece.
AlienALX
Well-known member
It's just them licking their own balls. And tbh? they deserve it. The IT market is bad enough as it is with Nvidia really taking the pee but man, imagine if AMD hadn't come through? you'd be looking at over a grand for an entry level PC.
RAM and SSD prices have settled nicely. Now all we need is some one to make Nvidia look like the pigs they are.
KingNosser
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I'm hoping that amd's next batch of gpu's will be as aggressive at least on price I would be expecting to much for them to do price and performance. They may still be a ways behind nvidia but if they can give me a good value card that say meets 1080 1080 ti levels but significantly cheaper then I will find a way to buy one for sure.
The fact that the newer cards will have DXR must have nvidia worried the whole RTX branding is pretty sad marketing speak it's DXR and nvidia re branded it.
My feeling is amd is in the market share gain mode atm so we could see some epic things this year at least I am hoping for it and I've not been a huge fan of amd in the past but they are doing a hell of a lot right atm.
The fact that the newer cards will have DXR must have nvidia worried the whole RTX branding is pretty sad marketing speak it's DXR and nvidia re branded it.
My feeling is amd is in the market share gain mode atm so we could see some epic things this year at least I am hoping for it and I've not been a huge fan of amd in the past but they are doing a hell of a lot right atm.
WYP
News Guru
Just think of it this way. Imagine if Nvidia's Geforce Partner Program was a success and they stole all of the good brand names away like ASUS ROG etc. Then to call their new parts RTX.
The whole point of the Geforce Partner Program, from their perspective, was to differentiate all of their marketing from AMD Radeon. The reality was that the consequences of that action would force AIBs to abandon Radeon with their established brand names... Then Nvidia would call next-gen RTX... Which sounds a lot like AMD RX...
AMD needs Navi to be a BIG design win for the company. The cards will probably age well thanks to next-gen consoles, but it really needs to be a winner on the PC side to force Nvidia to take their competition seriously.
If pricing stays the way it is right now, I can see a lot of people moving to consoles next-gen.
