AMD's Ryzen launches March 2, outperforming Intel's Core i7

[Leo]

OK everyone. Get your pre-orders in.

[sandermvdb]

Sure will!

[Steve Maughan]

I'm waiting for Naples - 32 cores!!!

[Lion]

Will it be good for chess?

[Leo]

Totally. Me too.

[Leo]

Will it be good for chess?

After a little research it seems that its better then Intel 7 at a lot of things except for chess. Fritz benchmark is supposedly 22,000 NPS for Intel 7 and 17,000 for AMD Ryzen. If true its somewhat disappointing.

[Steve Maughan]

Hi Leo,

If you're referring to the benchmark from about six weeks ago, then it was fake. They are saying the Ryzen will be really fast at integer math, so I'm hopefully we'll see Fritz Benchmarks of > 22k

Steve

Will it be good for chess?

After a little research it seems that its better then Intel 7 at a lot of things except for chess. Fritz benchmark is supposedly 22,000 NPS for Intel 7 and 17,000 for AMD Ryzen. If true its somewhat disappointing.

[Leo]

Hi Leo,

If you're referring to the benchmark from about six weeks ago, then it was fake. They are saying the Ryzen will be really fast at integer math, so I'm hopefully we'll see Fritz Benchmarks of > 22k

Steve

Will it be good for chess?

After a little research it seems that its better then Intel 7 at a lot of things except for chess. Fritz benchmark is supposedly 22,000 NPS for Intel 7 and 17,000 for AMD Ryzen. If true its somewhat disappointing.

Thanks a lot for that info Steve. That is great news and means the future Naples server has a lot of potential at a lot less cost then Intel.

[Ras]

I'll stay with my 1100T.

[jdart]

I kind of doubt it is going to outperform current-generation i7s and Xeons. But we will see.

On the other hand they are talking about 32-core server processors (in future), so that is interesting. Not so much so you can run one engine on 32 cores but for testing, parameter tuning, matches, etc.

--Jon