Allen
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AMD Radeon RX Vega [for gaming] launches at SIGGRAPH late July
..AMD confirmed that Frontier Edition [not for gaming] will be available on June 27th. This is the flagship Radeon Pro card aimed at content creators..
The news media considers this a launch delay -- versus what they speculated AMD originally planned.
..A solid release date hasn’t been announced yet, however you will be able to purchase a Ryzen Threadripper CPU and an X399 motherboard some time this summer AMD says...
Some evidence that Intel is pushing to get its 16/18 core versions out in the same time frame. So far, its not obvious that the 16/18 core Intel products will out perform AMD 16 core. Some writers believe the Intel competing products are being "rushed" (their word) to have an Intel 16 core product on the shelf at the same time as AMD.
Result of last night's presentation: We wait until mid or end of Summer for products and unbiased data.
Meantime, the 1006 BIOS's for Ryzen are said to launch in Mid June at the discretion of the motherboard manufacturers (they already have it). 1006 is intended to jump memory performance up to 4000MHz (with appropriate memory) -- which actually matters with Ryzen CPUs.
