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AMD brought us to the suite here at CES 2017 to prove once and for all that Rison is real it is physical it is tangible you can touch it well you can't touch it but but but I could touch it because I'm here if I as long as I didn't care about like ESD shocking it because these floors are carpeted not only do they have the couple of systems that I'm going to show you here but they actually have systems from over a dozen of their partners everyone from PC case gear to what the devil is this thing whatever it is it's water cool that's red it looks actually pretty freaking bananas and the logos in Chinese so I'm not going to try too hard to pronounce that one anyway let's get let's get back over here to the demos here the systems in front of me right now are the ones from the AMD livestream about a month ago not they're they they're not rebuilt the same spec they are the exact systems because that demo raised a lot of questions jool did AMD change this did they change that of what clock speeds is it running at so we have the answers to a significant chunk of that speculation right now so this one right here is running an 8 core 16 thread they let me take the panels off eight core 16 thread rise in CPU on a validation level motherboard so this is like a reference design you can actually buy this board they've got dual channel ddr3 in here they're running a Titan XP because AMD are a bunch of smart folks they know that our X 480 is not going to prove that this CPU can run with the biggest fastest GPU on the market today they had to put that in there it is what it is but the point is it's the real deal now we have a look at this guy AMD claimed they had a sixty nine hundred K $1000 processor from Intel running on legit actual production hardware oh look that's what it is so the demo that we're looking at right now is battlefield one running on a 69 hundred K with a Titan XP otherwise the same hardware yes the case is different that does not really affect the performance very much if that's an advantage for the Intel system because thanks to GPU boost that card will run a little faster if it's cool better and right here we have it frame rate counter battlefield one in one of the early training missions they are running damn near identically which is pretty unbelievable and AMD hasn't even showed all their cards yet because their chip is running at 3.4 gigahertz without their precision boost dynamic clock speed adjustments going at all yet dun dun da demo number 2 also highly controversial because people were looking at it going well how can this a core versus that 8 core have so significant difference in the stream quality and the answer from AMD and I mean I'm standing here with me in the webcam after stream delay I'm standing here seeing the demo the answer from them is that it's their infinity fabric that allows the individual processing course to talk to each other more efficiently that allows the game to be played here and the stream to be processed on the cpu for the broadcast much more efficiently now the obvious question is why aren't you just using quick sync or n B & C like a fixed function h.264 encoder and there are two answers to that so number one the quick sink doesn't exist on Intel's Broadwell processors they're their high-end and number two is that image quality can be with the correct settings superior using CPU encoding and they haven't tooled around with it in order to eliminate that advantage of CPU encoding again very interesting so what does this mean for Rison there was a lot of speculation before kb lake dropped that AMD was putting it up against Broadwell ii so that they had the advantage of comparing rise into an Intel Architecture that was effectively two generations old but now that we've seen what skylake brings to the table versus Broadwell now that we've seen what kb light brings to the table IPC wise versus skylake this is shaping up to be a very very interesting fight and I can't wait for sometime q1 2017 to get my hands on a real actual retail chip and a real retail board and I'm not the only one so thanks for checking out this video thanks to AMD for bringing us down here to the show and being a big part of our CES 2017 coverage and don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any of our CES videos here at the show