What's up guys welcome back to Paul's hardware. I have a very exciting video for you guys I'm gonna try to make this quick because I'm in San Francisco right now I was invited by AMD for a Ryzen tech day. They have announced new information. It's confirmed We have at least three skews. We have pricing. We have a launch date So I'm just gonna get right into the hard data and I'm gonna be reading off some notes here So starting March 2nd you're gonna be able to buy up to three Ryzen Ryzen 7 series CPUs You can get all three if you want or you can just buy one of them You can you can actually start pre-ordering these CPUs on February 22nd and at launch you can actually buy a full Ryzen system They're gonna have 185 different retailers and boutique OEMs that love systems available from the top There is the 1800 x the Ryzen 7 1800 x it's gonna cost 499 dollars. That's less than a lot of people anticipated It's all these CPUs in the Ryzen 7 series are 8 core 16 thread processors The 1800 x has a 3.6 gigahertz base clock a 4 gigahertz boost clock They didn't confirm the TDP although we've heard rumors that it should be 95 watts Which is confirmed to be the TDP of the next step down, which is the 1700 x back to the 1800 x though In cinabent it's about 9% faster than a 6900 k in the multithreaded testing AMD did and a single-terated test It's about equal instructions per clock performance to a 6900 k and only 500 bucks Which is significantly less than a 6900 k cost right now for 400 dollars or 399 you can get a 1700 x That one is a 3.4 gigahertz base clock 3.8 gigahertz boost clock 95 watt TDP and again we're assuming that also applies to the 1800 x although that wasn't confirmed for sure The 1700 x and AMD's tests beats the 8 core 6900 k and the 6 core 6800 k by about 4% and 39% respectively in cinabent r15 that's in the multithreaded test of course So we are getting some benefits in these cinabent tests from the fact that Ryzen does have 8 cores and 16 threads Whereas some of these CPUs from Intel they're comparing them to are only 6 core or 4 core But if that's all Intel has and if they're charging as much as they're charging for their 8 core and 10 core parts Then this is a nice kick in the pants for them The final chip that they've confirmed today is the one I think is going to be most interesting to you guys 325 dollars you can get yourself an R7 1700 So 3 gigahertz base clock 3.7 gigahertz boost clock 65 watt TDP So it shouldn't even be as hot as the 1700 x and the 1800 x 20 megabyte L2 and L3 cash and again in AMD's tests They showed it beating a 4 core 7700 k by about 46% in cinabent r15 and of course the 7700 k costs a little bit more than 325 dollars right now depending of course on where you buy it now those are the three processors Those are the ones we know and those are the ones that gonna be up for sale either pre-order February 22nd or up for sale Retailers on March 2nd. So that's pretty exciting We now know what the processors cost. We now know where when we're gonna be able to buy them We have not had a chance of course to do independent testing of any of these but AMD did have some demos to run So let me at least share some of those with you really quick In cinabent r15 they have been testing this of course for a while since Ryzen was first sort of announced in publicized The 1800 x in their test was 9 9% faster in multi-threaded and equal performance in single threaded testing to the 6900 k that's pretty nice they also did a gaming test with sniper elite 2 This was in direct x12 mode running at 4k They're running with dual rx480s and they had a 6900 k versus an r7 1800 x The 1800 x was about 5 to 10 frames per second faster hitting about 75 to 80 frames per second in that test Which was pretty nice and then they also did a handbrake tests for video encoding that was that the Ryzen 7 1700 versus the 7700 k and the Ryzen system in that test was 10 seconds faster than the 7700 k And as I already mentioned it costs less than the 7700 k So that's pretty nice Now there are some other random specs and stuff that they listed that you guys might find interesting So the Ryzen die for example is built from 4.8 billion transistors It also has 2000 meters of signal wire in there, which is pretty insane to think about for such a small CPU AMD's goal when they were developing Ryzen was 40% instructions per clock improvement over their previous generation Which is the excavator excavator core and incentive inch tests as well as overall But of course it depends on what types of tests you're running. They actually achieved 52% IPC improvement over the last generation. That's pretty damn impressive actually the entire crowd Burst into a little bit of applause when they did that Now at launch because you're gonna need a motherboard to go along with your processor They're saying that they're gonna have 82 different AM4 motherboards available from a variety of all of the Motherboard vendors that you've come to know and love they had someone display downstairs There was an 8 there were ATX and micro ATX versions I did also ask them about mini ATX motherboards They are expecting them to come out probably not right at launch But they will be coming out in the future Not much further confirmation besides that but yes mini ATX will be coming for Ryzen soon They have 19 system builders like boutique system builders that are gonna have Ryzen PCs at launch And they have gonna have up to 200 by the end of q1 So they're gonna be working with all of the system builder partners that you may have heard of in the past And then again marks March second is a launch date for this it will be sale for sale worldwide They're saying it will have strong availability which I take to mean that yes There will be lots of them but given the pricing here you might still expect them to sell out So we usually don't recommend pre-orders, but you never know I mean if you really want to Ryzen you might want to pay attention to that February 22nd pre-order date when pre-orders will go up for sale That's pretty much all I have to say about Ryzen But I want to do leave you guys with one last thing that's a look at an actual Vega GPU Yeah, this is the same one that they had on display at ces But they weren't letting anyone take a very close-up look at it unless you were special like Lyon So you can get special treatment But anyway, even then they had it like taped over with gaff tape and stuff They don't have it taped over now So you can actually see the power delivery on it is a six pin and an eight pin That's pretty much all there is to see again This is a engineering sample board. That's why it's got like a usb 3.0 header around it and stuff like that But that wraps it up for this video guys again. I really hope you enjoyed it. All that information Is really exciting news. I'm really excited for Ryzen I think the pricing is right in line with what we were hoping it would be because it's really gonna challenge intel And a lot of friends and it's gonna bring like an eight core CPU eight core 16 thread CPU down to a little bit more reasonable Price for people who are looking to build a higher end system for gaming or content creation or what have you? Of course, we don't have any independent tests yet All of those are going to be coming out in the future So keep an eye of course on my channel as well as off the weather channels I'll post some links to some people who are here down in the description too And thanks for watching guys hit the thumbs up button on your way out. We'll see you next time