Of course AMD compares to the competing 8/16 chip, because for enthusiasts its just a much better deal. There are a lot of enthusiast gamers that do streaming or video editing for example.
Mainstream is probably better of with waiting for the 4C/8T Ryzen models and pairing that with a RX 480 or mid range Vega.
[1] https://www.computerbase.de/2017-02/cpu-skalierung-kerne-spi...
Really ? That contradicts everything I've ever heard and experienced myself.
At least until really recently, games where still massively dependent on the single threaded speed since all the graphic stuff was single threaded (because of DX<12 or OpenGL). Did this already change thanks to the newest graphic API (DX12 / Vulkan) ? Last time I checked, the adoption was still pretty low, it's really good news if the landscape is changing quickly. Or is it something else ?
MSI and Gigabyte explicitly mention "(operate in non-ECC mode)".
Is that also true for Asrock AM4 motherboards? Or do they fully support ECC?
From: ASRock Support <snip>
Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:17 AM
Hello,
ASRock AM4 motherboards fully support ECC function.
This used to mean it was solely a motherboard feature, but starting about a decade ago, the memory controller was moved onto the CPU, so now it requires both CPU and motherboard support.
The Ryzen is a desktop chip, no ecc, half the memory busses, good at cache friendly stuff. No faster than last years CPUs on anything memory intensive.
Of course AMD's going to cherry pick the cache friendly benchmarks to brag about.