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five months of non-stop leaks and speculation around and these rise and chips we finally have some official notes on the bass specs core clock things like that and the pricing for the risin mine up we also have critically tell the names officially this time and that starts with the horizon are seven series of chips of course we would expect more would come later but for today all we have officially is information on the r7 chip so the three main ones are the r7 1700 and this is low end to high-end 1700 the 1700 x and the 1800 x again all are 7 and the prices for those in order 330 dollars for the r7 1700 400 for the 1700 x + 500 for the 1800 x before getting to the core specifications for the rest of the products this coverage is brought to you by our patreon backers at patreon.com / gamers nexus do you want to help fund a more on-site coverage like this for each of these chips we're looking at the rise in our seven seventeen hundred at three point 0 gigahertz for its base and 3.7 for boost there's also xfr for these products of course but we don't have full specifications of that just yet let's go through the specs for each of the three chips that was announced today the r7 1700 all of these are eight cores and 16 threads its base is 3 point 0 gigahertz boost is 3.7 and TDP is 65 watts and that's 330 dodge if the r7 1700 x also eight core 16 thread 2.4 gigahertz base 3.8 boost 95 watt TDP at four hundred dollars and the 1800 x is a 3.6 gigahertz chip base and boost to four-point-oh again there's some xfr Headroom in there as well that we'll talk about more on the review which is forthcoming and that's the 95 watt TDP chip as well at five hundred dollars in terms of availability these are all supposed to be available on March second that's when they will actually be available to purchase probably our review will go live around the same time or on that day these will technically be available for pre-order as of today but as always we recommend waiting for our review no matter what the product is a game hardware software wait for the review before pre ordering just because that's the wise thing to do so we would recommend waiting even though pre-orders are open andy says there should be availability and that's products available you shouldn't be a problem of course it could sell out but even still better to just wait on the pre-orders in terms of other items of note from this presentation the main one is just that we're looking at a stack of our seven ships that are supposed to compete with Intel's i7 so the 1700 is supposed to compete with the 7700 k kv lake chip in terms of direct head-to-head pricing and performance competition the 1700 x at four hundred dollars is more of a 6800 k competitor and the 1800 x at 500 is more of a competitor to me $1,000 intel chips like the 6900 k also at the editors day in san francisco and ear and the usual listing of benchmarks of cinebench would be the main one and side by side performance comparisons with intel cpus are similar to what we've seen a previous editors day events like this no one but they were kind of reiterated here these are all the numbers were about to show you are all and the intern also again usual grain of salt with manufactured benchmark we'll run our own of course but to give you an idea of where things stack up from andy's own testing we're looking at the r7 1700 x placing the CB score of 15 at 37 with the system that they use and the i760 900 k placing the cv score of 14 74th that's a slight improvement on AMD side the r7 1700 versus the i7 7700 k is a lot more interesting that one has a 1700 at 1410 CB marks and the 7700 k at nine 67 @ CB mark so quite a big difference there we don't know the exact configuration of the system and things like that so hang around for our benchmarks but that gives you a baseline idea at least of where AMD projects its performance to land and there were also some other ad hoc benchmarks like there was a sniper elite demo where we saw some gameplay of sniper elite it's really just a side by side to give a general idea of these two processors from andy and from intel / for more or less the same I wouldn't read too far into any hard FPS numbers you see out of that demo because it's not like it was run in a contained scientific environment there were different objects and challenge count screen for one PP than the other and when you have a whole bunch of sky box from screen it's going to favor the processor with all the Sky box on the screen so I'll leave that there wait for the game benchmark again from us but they had one that should somewhat comparable performance and we've seen that before with battlefield one at CES and at a previous and the editors day event so that's most of the basics there's more advanced architecture stuff we'll cover in the review the main thing here is that this is a departure then is moving away from the bulldozer architecture of having a shared floating-point unit per core or per module it is now a private FP unit private simdi private l2 cache for each core and that should help a lot with floating point performance which with games is critical and with overall performance and power efficiency that's the main item of note there's a there are a few other things that are known David Cantor is peace for micro positive report details a lot of this like the micro of cash which should help reduce x86 instruction overhead is also redesigned l1 cache and everything's of course saving for lower power more efficiency stuff like that so as always article in the description below for more information on some of the basics of the architecture check back probably around the second door on the second for our full review and otherwise stack up looks pretty good right now it's all 8 cores 16 threads that's what the gun for for the future clock speeds look competitive and the initial cinebench data even if it's from AMD does look competitive so it looks like good product overall 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