AMD recently said that it plans a hard launch of its first three Ryzen processors on March 2. The highly anticipated chips promise to outperform high-end parts from Intel and undercut their prices by as much as 54 percent. You can preorder Ryzen chips and systems from 180 retailers and system integrators today.
AMD’s 'Ryzen' offerings consist of three new chip families:
The premium Ryzen 7
The midrange Ryzen 5
The cheapest Ryzen 3
AMD is rolling out its fastest, premium Ryzen 7 chips first, including the Ryzen 7 1800X ($499), the Ryzen 7 1700X ($399) and Ryzen 7 1700 ($329). AMD’s Ryzen 5 and the Ryzen 3 will ship later this year. At the moment, AMD’s not saying exactly when.
AMD executives confidently unveiled the first three desktop chips to attack Intel’s Core i7, supported by several top-tier motherboard vendors and boutique system builders. In many cases, executives said, AMD will offer more for less, as early Ryzen benchmarks prove. The top-tier Ryzen 7 1800X will cost less than half of what Intel’s thousand-dollar Core i7-6900K chip does—and outperform it, too.
Check out more details on the three new Ryzen 7 chips at PC World.