AMD Ryzen CPU Release: Pre-Order Listing At AMD Shanghai’s Taobao Shows 28th Feb Availibility [Video]
After a leaked lineup of 17, AMD Ryzen processors appeared over the weekend, a shipping date, which has surfaced for AMD's upcoming processor family for desktops, says the launch of Ryzen CPU on February 28. The listed chip is having the same specification as the Ryzen CPU was rumored to have.
The date was discovered through AMD Shanghai's Taobao distribution channel, which is allowing its customers to pre-order the listed chip, which is supposed to be AMD Ryzen, for $295. The listing doesn't provide a specific model number, however, it does show a clock speed of 4.2GHz.
What is interesting is an availability date on the 28th or February along with a ¥ 1999.00 price tag which means $290. The AMD Ryzen chip is listed at 14nm with 4.2 GHz turbo clock frequency is mighty interesting, as it does seem 200 Mhz higher than expected.
This entry was firstly spotted by Reddit user eric98k, the original source. The shop on taobao listing this is known as AMD Shanghai. Make of the entry of what you want, it could very well be fake or a bit of a pun of course. You can also check the entry yourself here on Google translated.
That number listed could be the chip's turbo speed. The supposedly leaked launch AMD Ryzen lineup released over the weekend apparently only referred to the base speed ranges between all 17 chips. However, the eight-core AMD Ryzen processor sampled on display during January's CES 2017 tech convention had a base speed of 3.6GHz and a turbo speed of up to 3.9GHz, which is 200MHz higher than the sample used during the New Horizon demo in December.
According to Digital Trends, those with the new speeds were achieved through F3 stepping. That fundamentally describes the revision level of the chip, meaning the AMD Ryzen chip went through a few changes on the lithographic level to strike those improved speeds. Making changes at that level of the chip's design point to that AMD made improvements to the design and squashed a few bugs.
What's interesting is that the listing AMD Ryzen processor is a clock speed of 4.2GHz for only $295. That could be the speculated as R7 1800X model we saw at the top of AMD's leaked Ryzen roadmap which will compete with Intel's Core i7-6900K eight-core chip. There doesn't appear to be a 7th generation equivalent of the i7-6900K right now, though that will likely change later this year once AMD's Ryzen CPU family arrives.
As seen in the leaked roadmap, AMD will reportedly offer five Ryzen R7 models with eight cores and 16 threads clocked at 3.0GHz and 3.6GHz. The four models include the R7 Pro 1800, the R7 1700X, the R7 1700, and the R7 Pro 1700. The AMD Ryzen lineup will also be consisting of eight R5 midrange units and four R3 entry-level units.
It was at first believed that the AMD Ryzen processors would hit the market on March 2, 2017. We expect to hear more news about the official launch within the next week or two, up to then stay tuned.
