so seriously where are my damn leaks!!!!!
I have never seen this before for any cpu launch, all they way back to the K7 days.
Aren't the leaks automatically stopping when reviewers have to sign the NDA?
Meaning many will already have a Zen3 CPU to test, since rumors say launch not much later after 8 October and obviously those that received 8 October info would also need to have signed an NDA.
let it go man, let the leaks flow!Two more days, hodor!
I don't know about that, the PS2 and XBox generation was pretty great as well. The PS2 was more complicated and took awhile to really get games that maxed it out, but the XBox basically shipped with a full GeForce3 Ti500 that sold for $300+ along with a respectable CPU and all the other basic PC goodies, and it launched at $300.I am still looking for a post in 2017. I ran into an AMD employee on a forum and I asked if Zen was the real deal. He said the plan was for Zen through Zen4. He said by Zen 2 they would leave Intel in the rear view mirror. Not quite because of the gaming advantage that Intel still has against Zen 2, but this was making predictions several years in advance. People forget that TSMC has given AMD a pretty significant leg up on Intel due to their execution of 7nm and silicon in general vs. gloflo silicon on the original Zen CPU's.
Anything beyond Zen 4 is new architecture. Zen 3 is all new architecture but still based on the Zen architecture. As has been pointed out things they intended to include in Zen will show up in Zen 3 and Zen 4.
Because they fixed the infinity fabric problem in Zen 3. Gaming is not tied to CPU clock speed but removing the memory latency problem that plagued all iterations of Zen cpu's prior.
For the first time probably since the original Playstation. The new gaming consoles are going to be really good. This is good because consumers will give the middle finger to Intel, AMD and Nvidia and buy consoles in protest of price gouging in the GPU market. This will probably spread to the CPU market which hasn't had the price gouging problems that the GPU market has since the cryptocurrency boom and bust.
I will probably sit out Zen 3 until Q2 of next year. I need a new GPU and it will either be Big Navi or the 3070.
Makes me wonder if AMD was individually customizing clocks/CPU-ID/Model-Numbers for partners and testers to be able to identify them if they leaked?Aren't the leaks automatically stopping when reviewers have to sign the NDA?
Meaning many will already have a Zen3 CPU to test, since rumors say launch not much later after 8 October and obviously those that received 8 October info would also need to have signed an NDA.
Aren't the leaks automatically stopping when reviewers have to sign the NDA?
Meaning many will already have a Zen3 CPU to test, since rumors say launch not much later after 8 October and obviously those that received 8 October info would also need to have signed an NDA.
Exactly. There are enough identifiable pieces of data that they could probably swiftly ensure the demise of the person who leaked it.Makes me wonder if AMD was individually customizing clocks/CPU-ID/Model-Numbers for partners and testers to be able to identify them if they leaked?
I've been following launches for a while (>15 yrs). Zen's had lots of leaks and many, many battles were fought with people that screamed SANDY BRIDGE IPC!!!!11!
This, on the other hand, is unprecedented.
We only got a CPU-z bench of a 5900X.
After Ryzer 2: Ryzen HarderCould the lightning strike again?
Aren't the leaks automatically stopping when reviewers have to sign the NDA?
Meaning many will already have a Zen3 CPU to test, since rumors say launch not much later after 8 October and obviously those that received 8 October info would also need to have signed an NDA.
Makes me wonder if AMD was individually customizing clocks/CPU-ID/Model-Numbers for partners and testers to be able to identify them if they leaked?
I am willing to bet that no reviewers will have access to the chips until the announcement After the announcement, it is at the reviewers peril if they break NDA. RDNA2 will be like this as well.
It is possible. However, it is also possible that AMD is working closely enough with partners that they don’t need to send out the chips prior. If they are sending out the chips, it is probably with the strictest NDA we have ever seen.
In an ideal world AMD would ship the CPU specific code to board partners and they would plug it in and go.
Of course:I am willing to bet that no reviewers will have access to the chips until the announcement After the announcement, it is at the reviewers peril if they break NDA. RDNA2 will be like this as well.
Zero Early News 3Of course:
RDNA2 = Rumor Disclosure Non Agreement 2
Could be as simple as AMD is sending a test engineer to each of the partners and he keeps track of the engineering samples all the time.
So the process would be:I highly doubt that, especially these days. Honestly, I could see them sending them out in locked boxes that have special locking mechanisms either using cellular modems or calibrated clocks and won't unlock til a specific time or signal.
New NDA contract perhaps? Something first born and castration? Capital punishment?