Intel brings new features to desktop with its 10th Generation of Comet Lake-S CPUs

[Kleptobot]

i wonder what AMD's yields are like right now?
Considering that ZEN2 is a chiplet design on a mature node, they must be getting pretty good yields and still be able to utilize dies that aren't 100%

With that in mind, AMD are probably able to drop prices and still get very good margins

 

[demonking]

The bigger they are the harder they fall....

I think those tiny % gains intel has on older games will slowly disappear. With AMD involved with every gaming sector (except Nintendo and soon to be on mobile) Intel will have to work to get they're CPU's optimised whilst AMD will be helping game devs and have a foot in the door.
We are getting CPU's with 64 cores these days on consumer hardware, it won't be long before the number of cores matters more than the clock speed for gaming and the API has full access to all the resources the OS has and can schedule these correctly.
Time will tell though, I am no seer but this is the way I see it going

 

[AlienALX]

i wonder what AMD's yields are like right now?
Considering that ZEN2 is a chiplet design on a mature node, they must be getting pretty good yields and still be able to utilize dies that aren't 100%

With that in mind, AMD are probably able to drop prices and still get very good margins

The yields will be awesome. It was part of the design. Small chiplets, far less waste.

And yeah, of course they can utilise pretty much everything ,because all they have to do is etch or lazer off the dead bits or disable them.

I think Keller knew where Intel were heading, and thus literally planned from the beginning. It's not just the genius of coming up with the tech and the CPU itself, but literally everything about Zen. So many really good ideas, all before it was a product.

I have absolutely no doubt prices on Ryzen will now drop continually until the next gen comes out. The good thing is the AMD 12 core should now fall into line with their 8 core pricing (so £350 or so, and probably less toward the end of the year). Because now that CPU has competition.

But, I bet they don't mind that they got to charge £500 for it for a whole year. I think the price of the 3950x will drop some too, but it still has no direct competition in the desktop space. The 10 core Intel will be direct competition for the 3900x, and I think that is the one AMD will cut prices on the most.

Which is really cool. Also, let us hope that means on the next gen Ryzen 12 core will become the entry level high end much like the 8 core units now.