It’s celebration time at AMD, and never simply because it’s set to launch each the next-gen Ryzen 3000 processors and Navi graphics cards in only a few brief months. AMD is popping 50 this 12 months, and to have fun the chip producer is reportedly getting ready a 50th Anniversary Edition of the Ryzen 7 2700X.
The potential new chip has been listed on ShopBLT with a brand new half quantity and did initially seem with a brand new, increased, price ticket too. That might point out a change within the specs for the Anniversary Edition, however the itemizing on the retail website has been altered because it was first launched, with a notice now stating the itemizing “will be removed from our site shortly.”
For the time being, nonetheless, it’s nonetheless in place even when the value is gone and there’s now no facility to pre-order. The very existence of the itemizing forward of the May 1 anniversary of AMD’s founding makes it very possible that is really ‘a thing’ and never only a random add by a playful intern.
The itemizing can at the moment be seen at ShopBLT (by way of Chiphell) and is particularly titled as ‘Ryzen 7 2700X 50th Anniversary Edition’. The authentic value that was positioned on the product web page was $341, whereas the preliminary 2018 model had a launch value of $329. While which may effectively point out a change in specification it’s price noting that a normal Ryzen 7 2700X on the identical website will set you again $383, although that’s virtually $100 greater than the 2700X retails for on Amazon proper now.
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But what could be the purpose in releasing a brand new version of the chip with out giving customers one thing recent? And if you happen to’re transport a 50th Anniversary CPU nowadays with out giving it a turbo clock of a minimum of 5.0GHz then your advertising and marketing division will likely be up in arms…
The present turbo clock velocity of the 2700X, nonetheless, is a way more sedate 4.3GHz and that hardly ever rears its head throughout all-core testing. We additionally struggled to get wherever additional than 4.3GHz after we had been overclocking our 2700X pattern, so if AMD is ready to manufacture and ship a model of the 12nm silicon which may even nominally hit 5GHz that might be a reasonably spectacular feat.
But we’re virtually precisely a 12 months on from the primary launch of the Ryzen 2000-series flagship chip, and the 12nm manufacturing course of could have matured within the meantime. That may imply the CPUs GlobalFoundries is producing for AMD proper now – earlier than full Zen 2 manufacturing makes TSMC its main associate – are extra capable of make the grade.
Chances are that if AMD has been capable of bin-sort a bunch of 5GHz succesful 50th Anniversary Edition 2700X chips that they are going to be in a slightly restricted quantity, so there will not be too many on present as soon as AMD’s May 1st birthday rolls round.
But then how many individuals could be prepared to fork out $341 on 12 month-old CPU silicon, nonetheless excessive it’s clocked, when there’s the very imminent prospect of socket-compatible 7nm Ryzen 3000 processors launching in maybe a few months? Not too many, I’d wager. Spending $340 on a Ryzen 3000 in July ought to get you increased clocks, extra efficiency, and doubtlessly a good few additional cores too.
Anyone sitting on a Ryzen 2700X 50th Anniversary Edition chip may not be feeling too cheery as soon as the 3700X will get launched.
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