^ Apparently at CES they dropped a hint that when they said Q1 launch, they didn't mean the end of Q1, so hopefully that means February.
Probably going to come out around March end, I hope the local pricing isn't complete bonkers like their gpu's.
I bet you the Indian pricing will be nearly double the dollar value.
distributors here are such a rip-off.
I'd snag a R7 1700 in a jiffy even if they priced it the same as an i7 6700k and this is rumored to take on the 6900k iirc.
Intel is already way ahead on ipc. So its natural that they would slow down and take it easy.
From what i understand, its competition for 7700k/6800k, not 6900k.
To be honest it wont take much for intel to rain on AMD's parade as soon as it starts. They are already planning for new sku's like i5 6670k with HT and i7 6770k and also adjusting prices.
From what i understand, its competition for 7700k/6800k, not 6900k.
Even if that happens there are a lot of people willing to get Ryzen, Intel has taken their customers on a ride for far too long and haven't released anything compelling since Haswell because of lack of competition.
AMD doesn't have to beat Intel, just provided great bang for buck and they can finally turn a profit. You're talking as if this is a bad thing, competition is great for customers. I haven't been this excited about a cpu launch since sandy bridge.
Hmm no they got lazy and they know it, what I was saying was this is a common ploy to announce future products just in time to take the wind out of the competition's sails to hold off potential customers from jumping ship. It's done by pretty much everyone, AMD included.
I do not think there would be many people who would be stupid enough to buy a less performing product even if a better alternative is available in the other camp.
Yes, AMD did get lazy and failed to catch up till now despite Intel slowing the pace drastically.