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The R7 1700 is within shouting distance of the 6900k in most serious tasks - rendering, encoding, compilation etc. A $330 65w CPU is a credible alternative to an $1100 140w CPU. That is absolutely remarkable. The cherry on the cake is that the cheapest AM4 motherboards are half the price of the cheapest 2011-v3 boards.

For the first time in a decade, AMD are seriously competing at the high end. That's great news for everyone except Intel.

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I'm hoping things get more interesting when the Ryzen Mobile chips come out later in the year.

The Zen based APU platform is going to cause real problems for Intel in the laptop/ultrabook market, Ryzen's power consumption looks very low and their iGPU technology is years ahead of Intel's.

>> The Zen based APU platform is going to cause real problems for Intel in the laptop/ultrabook market

Technically this is true, but unlike the desktop market where you can buy stuff in pieces, it really depends on how the laptop manufacturers adopt them. As in how fast they show up in product lines, and in which laptop segments they show up in.

If, for example, Intel gives laptop manufacturers pricing incentives (legally or not) to stick with their chips, it may not cause any problems at all with respect to actual customer purchases.

and this is exactly why I'm getting one.

Cheap, power efficient, eight cores. It may not win everything, but it works for me.

According to Web performance chart, it looses to 7700T, which has 1/2 TDP and 5% lower price.

> According to Web performance chart, it looses to 7700T, which has 1/2 TDP and 5% lower price.

It also has 1/2 cores, which doesn't show up on the single threaded benchmarks but explains the price and TDP differences.

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