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on July 29 2017 AMD held their tech day for two of the most exciting products to come out of the company in years Rison thread Ripper and rx Vega now obviously I wasn't able to be at the tech day because I was busy with the rest of my team hosting our first-ever LTX tech carnival but AMD provided me the briefing materials and alienware sent over this area 51 so that I could show off both AMD's top-of-the-line 19 50 X 16 core 32 thread processor and a prototype of the RX Vega 64 limited edition from this park bench Brow's privately and securely with tunnel there the simple VPN app search your 7-day free trial at the link in the video description let's start with Vega the bulk of graphics cards actually sell for under $300 but that doesn't mean that there's no value to having an enthusiast offering enthusiasts recommend hardware to their less enthusiastic friends so if you're AMD every rx Vega you sell might sell a 560 or 3 so to compete in this space AMD says they went back to the drawing board on a lot of things a brand new pixel engine brand new geometry engine support for rapid packed math to accelerate the rendering of objects that don't benefit from higher precision and eight gigs of state-of-the-art HBM to memory with up to an unbelievable 484 gigabytes per second of bandwidth the entry-level card called Vega 56 contains only 56 of their next-gen compute units versus 64 in the higher-end SKUs it's air-cooled consumes about a hundred and 50 watts according to rumors full benchmarks will follow when the review embargo lifts and seems to be positioned against the gtx 1070 at 399 stand alone while the top-tier vega 64 is available in two configurations an air-cooled version at fifteen forty six megahertz boost and up to a rumored three hundred watts and a water-cooled one at sixteen seventy seven boost and I hope this isn't right up to four hundred watts of power consumption as for pricing for this one it gets a little complicated out of the gate Andy is offering what they're calling Radeon packs so two games that vary by region the Germany version might contain prey and sniper elite rather than Wolfenstein 2 for example $200 off of an ultra wide Samsung's three sync monitor and $100 off a rise in seven CPU and motherboard combo Andy is touting this as up to 420 dollars of value and it seems like it's adding about $100 to the price that you pay based on the entry level pack with Vegas 56 and I guess all I can say is I hope that you the consumer think that's a good deal because at launch while this limited-edition brushed metal shroud is available it's likely that the only way you'll be able to buy a Vegas 64 is with a bundle this annoying restriction appears to be an attempt to ship cards to gamers rather than just wiping out all their inventory to coin miners so at least I can see that AMD's heart is in the right place but I'd like to hear what you guys in the comments think about that on to rise and thread Ripper this one is both simpler and more complicated in some ways it's simple because we have a pretty good idea of what to expect based on the specs the 1950 ex is a 16 432 thread three point four gigahertz based 4 gigahertz boost quad channel ddr4 monster so given that we're already familiar with single threaded vent performance at a given frequency and then multi-core scaling across CCX units the only real question mark left is how the quad channel memory enabled by AMD's use of 4 CC X's instead of 2 will affect then performance and if I had to guess I'd say that's going to be a really good thing now it's complicated because it's hard to assign value to these high-end desktop parts in traditional ways at $1000 the 1950 X is not a great value for gaming in the sense that an overclocked rise in 5 for a fraction of the cost will perform very similarly or even better but from a content creation data science and mega tasking perspective it's a total GameChanger and it's pricing is a big part of that story over the last couple of generations Intel has inched up the pricing of its flagship consumer processors in an apparent attempt to avoid cannibalizing the lucrative xeon lineup an A & D says nope they're launching two other chips here the 1920 X is a 12 core variant with similar clock speeds but that one's not that interesting to me I think an extra 200 bucks for four more cores is a great deal by the time you're dropping fat stacks of money on an X 399 motherboard and a cooler that's going to have to handle a rumored 180 watt and they're also launching an 8 core 1900 X this one is actually more interesting to me because even though it has the same core count as arisin 7 if you're building a workstation or compute box you might not need a ton of CPU and 550 bucks is a phenomenal value for the quad-channel memory controller and more importantly 64 PCI Express Lanes and that's to run pretty much as many GPUs as you want without running into bandwidth limits so in summary then to gamers unless you're parkour into CPU encoding your twitch streams while you play which we will be testing in our full review it's not too relevant but to folks like me rise and thread Ripper looks like a game changer want to get an AMD graphics card of your own we're going to have a link to where to buy them at Amazon in the video description and while you're over there don't forget to pick up a prime membership features include free two-day shipping free same-day delivery depending on where you live prime video with unlimited streaming of movies and TV episodes for paid and trial members and as on - for prime so you never run out of your favorite products with their handy little buttons Amazon Music Unlimited twitch prime with discounts on games ads reviewing on Twitch and one free Twitter subscription which you can use every month and it just keeps getting better and better so sign up for a free trial of prime today through the link below and also check out graphic cards like Vega on so thanks 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