Allen
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Ohio USA
From CES, a small amount of supposedly "hard data":
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Ryzen demo was using F3 stepping that is clocked at 3.6 GHz / 3.9 GHz, F4 stepping to go even higher
..The good folks over at Canard PC Hardware also revealed that the Ryzen F4 stepping has already been finalized and has a turbo clock of 4.0 GHz. .. it already has a higher clock than Intel’s 6900k which can turbo to 3.7 GHz. It is even a fair bet that if you were to put the two side by side in a gaming comparison, the Intel counterpart would loose out..
..a single core can hit 5 GHz on air..
..even at this stepping, a 3.9 GHz turbo is more than enough for most modern day games. If you really want to crank out that last bit of juice from your Vega GPU than you can go with an Intel quad-core that can hit the 4.4 GHz mark...
So, 3.6/4.0GHz is the next stepping. Will it be "the last"?
I'm still hoping the $500 Ryzen is a "hand selected" "final stepping" that out performs the numbers seen here (if only by a little bit) and overclocks the best.
