AMD Ryzen Release Date, Price News: Leaked Benchmark Surface With Competitive Results and Costs That Start at $129
After a talked-about presentation during the Consumer Electronics Show last month, reports spotted supposed benchmark tests for the unreleased AMD Ryzen processing chips showing competitive results and a good price point that starts at $129.
With the recently leaked benchmark results, reports have it that AMD is continuing to give Intel a run for its money.
In one of the benchmark screenshots, there are six different CPU types with one named as AMD Ryzen: ZD3406BAM88F4_38/34_Y. According to WCCFTech, it is the internal codename for the eight-core 16-thread AMD Ryzen 7 1700X. As per one of the result sheets, AMD Ryzen 7 1700X recorded a 3,394-megahertz speed and reiterates a 16,336 MB or 16 GB random access memory.
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It may be noted that the results did not mention anything about the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X's turbo or overclocking speed. It is because, as WCCFTech explained, the chip was tested using a system with a motherboard that does not support overclocking.
As reported earlier, the major selling point for the AMD Ryzen lineup is its entirely unlocked overclocking speeds. This can mean that while the models used in the testing were close to the retail type, actual results for consumers can still vary and may be better with the Turbo Mode activated.
WCCFTech's report emphasized that the $389-priced AMD Ryzen 7 1700X's performance at the benchmarking test reveals that without the Turbo Mode, it already performs better than Intel's eight-core Haswell-E i7 5960X Extreme Edition that costs $999.
To add to Intel's worry, the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X stood out in at least five out of eight benchmark sheets against Intel's high-end chips. AMD won in the integer math, floating point performance, sorting, encryption, and extended instructions (SSE) performance tests while not falling much behind in terms of prime numbers, compression, and physics.
With these results, the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X gets an overall CPU Mark of more than 15,000 – better than Intel's i7-6800K's 13,356. The latter is priced somewhere around $420.
AMD Ryzen offers a wide array of CPU types with the Ryzen 3 1100 being the most standard variant with four cores, four threads, a 3.2-gigahertz base speed and up to 3.5 GHz when overclocked. It is expected to carry an affordable price of $129.
The AMD Ryzen line is set for release on March 2.
