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  • nathanddrews - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Will AT have its Ryzen review articles ready to go when the NDA lifts? I am excite.
  • Gich - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Nop, just a news promising an article that will never come to be...
  • ddriver - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    My bet is on "no".
  • fanofanand - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    No, this isn't Apple we are talking about here. They will copy and paste the press release and promise a deep dive that will never happen. Not to worry, every other tech publication known to man will have thorough articles at minute 1. You will not be starved for content, your needs just won't be served by this site.
  • rhysiam - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    While the GPU reviews here on AT seem to be getting later and often never even appearing, Ian Cutress does the bulk of the work on CPUs and motherboards and his reviews of major releases are usually up very promptly.
  • NextGen_Gamer - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Yeah since Ryzen is supposed to launch in early March I am hoping AMD will give us the final details at their GDC event - models, pricing, etc. And I am really hoping they will give a new preview of their Vega GPUs as well.
  • A5 - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    I'd be surprised if Ryzen is there beyond some hand-picked benchmarks and systems. Pricing and models probably won't be "confirmed" until the NDA lifts for reviews.
  • ddriver - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    I don't see any point of running intel optimized synthetic tests, as their scores are irrelevant.
  • fanofanand - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    February 28th IS the lifting of the embargo, so yes they will have demos on site and we will get actual specs and pricing.
  • eachus - Thursday, February 23, 2017 - link

    Um, your post was just overcome by events. Pricing and 3 models were confirmed for Ryzen 7 today. More Ryzen processors are expected, but these three can already be ordered.
  • Kevin G - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Ryzen will certainly get a mention at the AMD event but we could also be hearing a bit more about Vega and a long shot at Raven Ridge SoC chips due at the end of the year.
  • BrokenCrayons - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    I have to admit, I'm extremely curious about the sorts of food and drinks there'll be at the Nvidia event. Unless there's some sort of announcement about sub-40W TDP GPUs, the food will probably be the most exciting part of the corporate schmooze-fest from either company at GDC.
  • fanofanand - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    AMD is holding this event on the day the embargo is released on Ryzen. Nvidia's will be *yawn* talking about the 1080ti, but the AMD tent will be popping! Hopefully we will get some actual Vega info, I'm sick of reading rumors.
  • BrokenCrayons - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Though, based soley on information here, AMD doesn't have food or drinks. I'm hoping that's not the case, but that's a huge miss and it'll certainly make the launch of any new product a lot less interesting if there's not at least snacks of some sort.
  • fanofanand - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    I don't know where you are getting your information, but I was assured there would be punch and pie.
  • MattMe - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    That apple and rhubarb pie at the last event was terrible though. This years pie is going to be more of the same. The new Nvidia pie that we haven't tasted or even seen before is so much tastier and faster.
  • imronburgundy - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    Why does the 1080ti constitute a *yawn*? The only thing we know about AMD's cards is rumor and speculation.
  • rocky12345 - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    I bet Nvidia is hoping AMD does a launch of Vega at this event we all know Nvidia has been hording the release of the 1080 Ti just for the Vega release event. But I am afraid the 1080 Ti release is way past it's prime and I hope they just skip because it is so last year now. I am gonna bet that they will just do a refresh and rename the 1080 Ti to a 1180 or a 2080 and call it a day. They may refresh some other cards as well by renaming some to suit their needs. I am not even sure when Volta is supposed to come out at this point.
  • fanofanand - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    They have already announced that Nvidia's 2017 lineup is all rebranding. Of course, Nvidia fans say Nvidia doesn't do that, only AMD, so it should be interesting to see the fanboy spin.
  • rocky12345 - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Yep will be interesting indeed. I do not consider myself a huge fan boy of either side well except for which ever brand I have inside my system at the moment I am known to cheer a bit for that company. But as a rule I only buy which ever brand has the most bang for the buck at the time I am looking for a new Graphics card and I go with that company.
  • surfnaround - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Dawn of a new hor-ryzen? the sun rising...

    Or is it ho-ryzen? the sun setting... #rimshot
  • fanofanand - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    I know they have no reason to be, but this comes off as desperate by Nvidia. AMD has the NDA lift for Ryzen, they will likely announce the actual VEGA GPUs, possibly giving specs, and Nvidia is going to say what? Here's the 1080ti everyone knew was coming?
  • Ryan Smith - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    So events like these are planned months in advance. Vendors have book the event space very early due to how popular GDC is, never mind actually lining up content for them.

    Most likely NV and AMD both started planning these 6 months ago, with no idea what the other was up to. (This actually happens a lot more in this industry than you guys would think)
  • fanofanand - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Thanks for the insider insight Ryan! It's easier for us plebs to think there is so much corporate espionage going on that very little is unknown between competitors.
  • MattMe - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    I like to imagine that most on here are aware of this, they just aren't as vocal ;)
  • Achaios - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Nahhh, EVGA just released their new version of the 1080 and you think that NVIDIA will talk about the 1080TI when AMD's VEGA is six months away from launch?

    No man, NVIDIA will tell us about how excited they are to build technology that will drive cars instead of us, drive ships instead of us or something else equally boring like how excited they are with VR.

    What gamers get? Nada.
  • Yojimbo - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    I'm pretty sure the way it works is that NVIDIA decides when the 1080 Ti (or any other GPU) will be released and their board partners know well in advance about when that will be. Then the board partners can decide their strategy. NVIDIA doesn't plan their GPU releases around the board partners' strategies.

    Board partners coming out with new 10 series versions doesn't suggest a lower likelihood of a 1080 Ti coming out. The 1080 Ti mostly exists in its own market segment. What is suggested to me is that there is probably no Pascal refresh (new GPUs based on Pascal that replace the already released Pascal GPUs) coming in the next few months. Surely these new high end cards by the board partners would not be coming out if better GPUs were coming in the next, say, 6 months. I really have no idea what the amount of time board partners would want to plan for in terms of high-end marketability of these cards, but 6 months or more sounds good to me.
  • Yojimbo - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Oh, furthermore, what you said about the cars is off base. They will talk about self driving cars at CES and GTC because it is appropriate for them to do so there. But GDC is a games development conference. So they will talk about gaming. I am sure they will talk about VR, as VR is part of gaming. But they won't only talk about VR.
  • MattMe - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    Get out of here with your reason and logic.
  • dcurve - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    I know they have no reason to be, but this comes off as desperate by AMD. Nvidia has the NDA lift for the 1080Ti, they will likely announce the actual 1080Ti GPUs, possibly giving specs, and AMD is going to say what? Here's the Ryzen everyone knew was coming?
  • A5 - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    It's not like anyone would be surprised by the 1080Ti.
  • doggface - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Lol. Earlier, people comment that nVidia looks desperate because AMD has an NDA lift on Ryzen, now AMD is desperate because nVidia is announcing the 1080ti. Can you guys possibly imagibe that both companies want to use this trade show to .. I dunno, show off their new stuff. Fanbois... Jeez.
  • webdoctors - Thursday, February 16, 2017 - link

    Why would anyone talk or release a CPU at GDC, let alone a server oriented one? I'd guess both companies would discuss their GPUs. Is there something about Ryzen that says its consumer oriented? The single thread performance is supposedly on par with Intel's and in most PC cases (get the PUN?!) the games are not bottlenecked by the CPU.

    If I'm building a gaming rig, I'd just grab whatever quadcore CPU is selling for around the $200 mark (depending on mobo prices), and put the rest of my money into the GPU.
  • BrokenCrayons - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    AMD's Zen is a processor core architecture that will likely be used in both the consumer and server space just like Intel has used its CPU core architecture across a wide range of product segments. Xeons, i3,5,7s, and ULV chips (outside of Atom-based products) are all built around the same processor technologies with varying core counts, clock speeds, and feature sets added or removed as-needed...ECC memory support for example. To date, there's been very few attempts to dedicate a specific core architecture to a market segment. I can think of only a handful of strays off the top of my head including Itanium and maybe DEC's Alpha and IBM's Power-series, that were targeted at professional or server work, but not also at the consumer space.

    Since games still need CPUs to run properly, despite their influence being downplayed in recent years as more emphasis and difference is usually realized via the computer's graphics adapter, they are still very much relevant to video games and game development. If AMD plans to talk about Zen at GDC, it doesn't seem unreasonable at all.
  • Scaredcrow - Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - link

    Okay... so will new releases affect previous models' prices? or is it better to wait completely? I just sold my gpu yesterday

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