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welcome back to harbor unboxed we are in taipei for Computex 2019 and although the trade show doesn't kick off till tomorrow we've still got some pretty exciting news for you guys today as aim D held their keynote ahead of the show that's actually a first for AMD and videos got their keynote later today and we'll find out what that super teaser is all about in fact you might actually know by the time this video goes live depending on how long editing processing all that sort of stuff takes anyway AMD's keynote was live streamed on their channel so anybody could watch it but if you missed it or you didn't want to watch an hour-long keynote then hopefully we can summarize the good bits for you and share some of our thoughts before that though a quick word about our sponsors firstly a big THANK YOU to MSA for making it possible for Tim and myself to attend Computex 2019 please check out their latest AMD x5 70 motherboards made for gamers and creators by the link in the video description also thank you to Corsair for their support please check all their exciting products out via the link in the video description so getting right into it the stuff we care about and hopefully you guys do as well AMD announced the new Radeon rx 5000 series and it's based on the new array D on DNA architectural our DNA for short this is very much like what they did with these n based CPUs which were designed from scratch so aim DS doing the same thing with our DNA for GPUs this is a new architecture it's designed exclusively for gaming so GC and will still remain for compute workloads but our DNA will lead the charge for AMD when it comes to gaming products Lissa claims an incredible 1.25 performance per clock increase and a one and a half times performance per watt improvement over the GC and 5th gen architecture so this is really going to help AMD significantly in their battle with NVIDIA they also demoed the rx 5700 head-to-head with the RT X 2070 in strange Brigade and claimed a 10% performance increase though we know this is an AMD sponsored title so overall we're expecting our TX 2070 live performance the good news is we'll know exactly what the rx 5700 is all about as na'vi GPUs will become available in July and we can expect much more info shortly On June 10th at e3 including pricing aim D then moved on to talk about desktop CPUs Lisa opened up saying AMD wasn't satisfied with their 1st and 2nd generation processors she went on to say that they were hoping for a 7 to 8% IPC improvement with his n 2 but was amazed when the engineers pulled out a 15% IPC improvement over the first iteration of Zen that's an insane IPC increase and all absolutely puts into on par or ahead every Intel's latest generation CPUs so the first CPU they involved was the AMD Rison 730 700 X an 8 core 16 thread CPU clocked at three point six cubits for the base and 4.4 gigahertz for the boost so those are very similar clock speeds to the 2700 X but there are a few crucial improvements the cache has been upgraded massively here we see a doubling from Zen 16 megabyte level 3 cache to a whopping 30 2 megabyte cache for Zen 2 then we see the TDP drop down from 105 watts to just 65 watts these improvements made for a 15% increase in Cinebench are 20 score over the 2,700 X aimday also showed the 3700 X beating the core i7 9700 K by almost 30% in Cinebench r20 and that's an important comparison given the 3,600 X is set to cost just 330 dollars u.s. so for the same launch prices the 2700 X you're getting a 40 percent lower TDP part with around a 15 percent improvement in performance then of course it's also much cheaper than the core i7 97 or okay which has a 374 dollar US MSRP and generally retails for a little over $400 u.s. then moving on amy announced a slightly higher end 8 core part the AMD rise in 7 3800 x and this one comes in at $400 u.s. the clock speeds see a small increase to 3.9 g codes for the base and 4.5 gigahertz for the boost not quite the 5 gigahertz clock speeds everyone was hyped for but given what we've seen so far I doubt to many of you will be disappointed the 3900 X is positioned as an upgrade option for 2700 X owners and while it doesn't seem like a particularly impressive product next to the much cheaper 3700 X we don't yet know what the extra TDP Headroom does for technologies such as xfr we're still yet to learn anything about XFR or precision boost for these parts so you might have to wait for reviews to get answers there then to cap all those n2 news off aimday announced their first mainstream 12 core 24 thread part the risin nine 3900 X this CPU operates at a base frequency of 3.8 gigahertz with a boost frequency of 4.6 gigahertz and it packs a grand total of 70 megabytes of cash this is still a 105 watt TDP part and the price has been set at $500 u.s. there will obviously be a 16 core 32 am 4 processor don't think anyone actually doubted that but we weren't expecting it to come at the initial launch and that certainly seems to be the case here perhaps AMD will drop that one on us next year but yeah we're just guessing at this point but there's certainly the possibility for a 16 core part this means at least for now the horizon 939 Rx is the flagship am 4 part and it will use 2 chip --let's in a 6 plus 6 configuration but because it is an AM 4 process that there are just 24 PCIe lanes in total though they are now PCI Express 4.0 lanes AMD did run a demo comparing the 3900 X to the core I $9.99 20 X so Intel's $1,200 high-end desktop processor versus aim DS upcoming $500 mainstream is in two part aim d1 that comparison in Cinebench are twenty by a six percent margin so that was an impressive demonstration I should also note that they're comparing a 165 watt Intel CPU to a 105 what AMD CPU after the keynote aimday also discussed some risin 5 models the 3600 x and the 3600 both a 6 chord 12 threaded CPUs the 3600 features a 95 watt TDP and operates at a base frequency of 3.8 gigahertz with a boost of 4.4 gigahertz while the 3700 has a 65 watt TDP and runs at a base of 3 point 6 gigahertz with a boost of 4.2 gigahertz both feature a 32 megabyte l3 cache the 3700 X costs 250 dollars and the 3600 just $200 there's gonna be pretty amazing value parts and they'll no doubt be the most popular options for desktop users the risin 7 and rising 9 parts that were officially announced on the livestream they'll be hitting shelves on July 7th so roughly 6 weeks from now you will be able to buy one of these news into processors and perhaps more crucially check out independent reviews wrapping this up there's still a lot of information that we haven't touched on yet either because we haven't well we haven't got concrete information on that sort of stuff yet or we're under NDA we have signed a few ndas for certain things one thing that I haven't discussed yet that we don't have any seriously concrete information on but it seems like that's a thing based on the information we've got from certain motherboard vendors but it seems like ddr4 32-hundred will be the new official memory support for Xen 2 processors so not a huge improvement over Xen plusses 2933 support but it should mean that getting memory to work at faster speeds and what we're currently able to analyze and processes and will be possible so that's obviously a good thing presumably AMD demoed their Zen to protesters with ddr4 3200 based on what we're hearing so it'll be exciting to see what they can do with even faster memory anyway I'm personally just really pleased with what we've been showing here I was a little concerned but yeah really excited really pleased with what we were shown the narvi demonstration looked really promising and I like the direction that AMD is taking here with the new Radeon rx 5000 series of course there's n2 stuff that was amazing we were always pretty sure that was gonna be amazing it was more of a concern of what we'd actually be shown it sounded like for a bit there that it might be a bit of a chipset launch with just more teasers of Zen - but no we got specs we've got prices of the higher-end parts and then we heard about the risin 5 parts behind the scene so that's awesome stuff and I'm really excited now to hit the showroom floor tomorrow and check out those X 570 motherboards and see what else we can learn about these n2 processors anyway that is going to do it for this one I hope you enjoyed our summary of the AMD livestream the keynote and please stay tuned for more product announcements throughout the week because Tim and myself will be covering those anyway thank you for watching I'm your host Steve I'll see you next time you