News AMD previews Ryzen 3rd generation at CES

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the offset position shows clearly they keep room for the 16 core version (3 chiplets).

a bit later launch than I hoped though, mid 2019
 

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Would have loved to have gotten more info but knew this wouldn't be the case when it was delayed to the end of presentation. Very nice to see that they used the chiplet on Ryzen Desktop. They also demo'd it beating the 9900k in Cinebench w/ 50-60 less wattage. Given that EPYC has 64 cores and 8 compute chiplets.. that means that the 8 cores are all flat on the demo'd Ryzen 3 and have equal access to I/O through the chiplet.

As I stated in the spec thread, the 9900k is a dead processor and so is Intel until they deliver in 2020/2021. That is now confirmed. What I now await is how much I/O they've crammed into that I/O chiplet, whether or not PCIE 4.0 is supported, performance, price and clocks.
 

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Yep, just caught it.. Very nice Screen Shot 2019-01-09 at 1.35.37 PM.png

Something tells me CCIX from CPU to their 7nm GPU is lurking and undisclosed and that new GPU supports PCIE 4.0 as well... potentially
 

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I can totally live with a mid 2019 release... gives me a chance to stash away a bit more funds and allows my 1700 to have one last good hurrah. Seems like the PCIe 4.0 support might prompt a board upgrade though.
 

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The fact that its wedged so high up leads me to believe they might and can put another 8 cores on there... especially given that they have that massive I/O chip. If they went out of their way to make a custom desktop I/O chip, I am sure there will be another compute chiplet tossed on there.

I would imagine that they'll eventually do it, but right now they can beat Intel's best with just one chiplet and at less power. I'm willing to bet that they can drive the clocks even higher and have a reasonable performance lead at similar power levels.

What do you think AMD is going to sell that for? I don't know the exact dollar amount, but I'm willing to bet it's a lot less than the $500 9900k.

They probably don't have enough chiplets to make a 16 core Ryzen right now, not when anything that's fully functional can be put in an Epyc CPU instead. But it doesn't really matter what Intel counters with since AMD will eventually be able to hammer them with a two chiplet part, even if it only offers 12 functional cores.
 

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The fact that its wedged so high up leads me to believe they might and can put another 8 cores on there... especially given that they have that massive I/O chip. If they went out of their way to make a custom desktop I/O chip, I am sure there will be another compute chiplet tossed on there.

Quite possible.
 

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The fact that its wedged so high up leads me to believe they might and can put another 8 cores on there... especially given that they have that massive I/O chip. If they went out of their way to make a custom desktop I/O chip, I am sure there will be another compute chiplet tossed on there.
So Ian calculates that the Ryzen IO die is slightly larger than a 1/4 the size of the EPYC IO die. I would not be surprised if the Ryzen IO die is different than the EPYC IO die so that it is possible to match up two Zen 2 compute dies, or a Zen 2 compute die with a Vega II compute die. The server IO die doesn't have to worry about having GPUs as part of the package while APUs will be released for Ryzen 3000.
 

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I can totally live with a mid 2019 release... gives me a chance to stash away a bit more funds and allows my 1700 to have one last good hurrah. Seems like the PCIe 4.0 support might prompt a board upgrade though.
Why not keep your 1700 till Zen 3 atleast?
 

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Look closely below the top die, what do you see when its titled at this angle?
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It's a really savage reveal if you think about it.

This is AMD showing that they can beat Intel with one hand behind their back.

It basically confirms that they've hit IPC and clock parity, or that they've surpassed Intel in at least one of those dimensions.
 

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So Ian calculates that the Ryzen IO die is slightly larger than a 1/4 the size of the EPYC IO die. I would not be surprised if the Ryzen IO die is different than the EPYC IO die so that it is possible to match up two Zen 2 compute dies, or a Zen 2 compute die with a Vega II compute die. The server IO die doesn't have to worry about having GPUs as part of the package while APUs will be released for Ryzen 3000.

I'd imagine that it's just for 2x Zen 2 chiplets, but the possibility of being able to integrate with a Radeon chiplet is certainly fascinating. However, that might not be something we see until the 4000 series as it would require a major shift in the way AMD designs their GPUs.
 

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Why not keep your 1700 till Zen 3 atleast?

The results they demonstrated indicated that an 8-core Zen 2 can beat a 9900k. That means the clock speeds and the IPC have to be similar to what a 9900k has, or that if the clock speeds aren't quite as high, the IPC is much better.

If you look at benchmarks between the 1700 and 9900k, the latter is about 44% better on average. AMD said the clocks weren't final either, so it could well end up that you can get a 50% bump over a 1700. I think that's certainly worth considering. The additional gains with Zen 3 probably won't see a similarly substantial jump.

Unless AMD starts charging Intel level prices or Intel comes out with a much better deal, I'm pretty much sold on Zen 2 when it launches.