Thread: AMD Zen3, in other words dont buy an AMD powered anything just yet,,

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I dont think they've done their Zen2 customers any favours,,

why not???

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I dont think they've done their Zen2 customers any favours,, but at least the socket stays the same( take note Intel...)

AMD Announces Ryzen "Zen 3" and Radeon "RDNA2" Presentations for October: A New Journey Begins

I jumped from an 1800x to a 3950x without anything other than a BIOS update. My x370 hardware won't support Zen3.

In fact, I can't quite figure out what impact it will have on any existing Zen2 owners. It might delay expenditure on new hardware, and it'll likely cause a drop in Zen2 prices, which would be a bonus for new buyers.

Actually, I can't see a down-side for any customer. Am I missing something?

well my mobo and cpu are from 2014, and i might be upgrading start of next year, so i;ll be looking at a zen 3 ryzen.

Originally Posted by Eevo

well my mobo and cpu are from 2014, and i might be upgrading start of next year, so i;ll be looking at a zen 3 ryzen.

AMD have delivered (if not over-delivered) on every promise with the Zen core, probably after being burned on Bulldozer (which was what I upgraded from to Ryzen). If they keep it up Zen3 should be a blinder.

I was pretty happy with the 1800x, but since the 3950x was just a drop-in replacement it was easier to justify.

My desktop is a 2011 i7-2600 but as most of the grunt is done on VMs on the server and it does what I need I can't really justify upgrading it.

my setups

Desktop
ASRock Fatal1ty Z97M Killer
Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.70GHz
32GB Dual-Channel DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER



Server
HUANANZHI X99-TF
Intel Xeon E5 2678 @ 2.50GHz <---- 12 cores! woohoo!
128GB Quad-Channel DDR3

it was just the length of time zen 2 was out,,
how far back does this socket go?

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

it was just the length of time zen 2 was out,,
how far back does this socket go?

I bought my first one in March 2017.

i bought the 3950x in December last year. I can’t see Zen3 being released until later in the year even if announced in October. They are roughly keeping up their yearly cadence.

My current work machine that I run from home is:

980 cores
9340 GB RAM
Six Tesla V100 GPUs
11 TB of SSDs
> 400 TB of slower disk.

:-)

Sorry, no I am not allowed to use it for Bitcoin mining.

Mike