2017 years have passed, but this year the DIY market is really busy than usual for many, A/I frequent new product, chain blocks, virtual currency mining and constantly and we take video resources gamers, FLASH costs surged, chicken game and has been hogging the headlines of various game sites... Today, I will give you a sense of the development of the CPU line in 2017. By the way, I will make a prediction of this year's new things.

The story begins in March 2017.

This year's biggest credit belongs to AMD:

It was originally called "Zen".

Actually began in 2015, AMD has been in various public, semi-public, or pretend not to publish in the form of public "Zen", of course is limited to the PPT, that is to say, have been offering it. So the industry has always been very vocal about it, and it is not too much to say "people expect". Finally, in the first quarter of 2017, AMD officially launched its "Zen" processor on the market, and gave it a new name -- "Ryzen" -- and gave it a very domicile name, sharron.

The first to go on sale in March was of course the flagship model Ryzen 7, 1800X, and look at the title we gave it at the time -- "you're here for ten years," and it's important. What does the decade mean? Is the second generation of Intel core listed after the start, AMD due to chose the modular architecture of bulldozer, makes the comprehensive performance of the CPU has been not to mention, even more and more weak, so from that time, Intel has been ruled by the field of high-end CPU (note: please don't take FX9590 exotic products to dismiss me ha ha ha).

(ladder diagram)

Ryzen the arrival of the 7, 1800 x is an epoch-making new start for AMD, single core performance can finally caught up with Intel, multi-core performance because of the number of core and SMT hyper-threading blessings directly easing the bit in the seven core i7-7700 k, at that time also is much stronger than many higher-end supreme level (EXTREME) core, looked awesome!

Since being rolling and Intel can't doing nothing, of course, although for many years in the attitude of the toothpaste treat each generation upgrade, but is still one of the most top semiconductor company in the universe, and more or less in the lab will still not used to cope with AMD knowin suddenly shows up, so hurry to eight generations core on the agenda, announced eight generations core is coming soon. (supplementary knowledge: in the past, Intel basically updated the core CPU only 1.5 years on average, but in January 2017, it only released the seventh generation of core, and released the eighth core in October.)

But AMD's new products are still on the market, with high-performance products hitting Intel's face with a punch.

Middle and mainstream cpus continue to kill --

In April, AMD immediately low 56-point thrashing out a Ryzen 5 series, contains 1600 x, 1600, 1500, 1600 and so on model, because all of them are Zen architecture Ryzen 7 1800 x shielding core, so the design difficulty is very low, and wafer roa also got guarantee.

The Ryzen 1600 x 5, 6 nuclear 12 threads also only 1999 yuan, multithreaded performance and long i7 - more than 7700 k, you need to know when Intel 6 nuclear 12 threads the CPU has to be nearly 3000 dollars, and collocation X99 motherboard is far more expensive than AMD Z370, AMD once again lower the multicore CPU use cost, gradually, shipment of began to ascend, a good product to get market recognition.

Four core eight threads began to popularize: to strong E3 thoroughly walk down the altar.

The four nuclear eight thread the honourable symbol only then can own the high above the core i7, later E3v2, E3v3 is covered with small i7 aura fire up, these all reflect the players the longing for multicore multi-threading, they also therefore has been high on price, E3v3 even after two or three years back up a few dollars, it said in the past?

With four nuclear eight thread Ryzen the arrival of the 5, 1400, E3 this noble experience is no longer its own unique, Ryzen 5 for the price of one thousand yuan in 1400, with cheap and new and original USB 3.1, 3.0 channel PCIe B350 motherboard, can even overclocking, who also buy the broken E3!

So Ryzen 5, 1400 is the meaning of the multicore multithreaded gradually popularization, civilians also can buy boxed, native, on four nuclear eight thread products, cheap, and it until today or sharp dragon's biggest-selling model on the electric business platform.
As for the lower Ryzen 3, it is also a good thing, and it directly pushes Intel to upgrade the i3 from the dual-core four threads to the four core four threads of the eight generations.

A rushed core i9 processor --

(new supreme core i9 family)

In view of the fact that in March the release of the sharp dragon 1800X directly moved to Intel's flagship i7-6850k or even 6900K, Intel also had to come up with a new approach -- the core i9.

And this is the first release above i7 for Intel's new series, in July, the first is listed on the i9-7900 - x, 10 nuclear 20 thread it still has enough strength against killing eight nuclear Ryzen 7 1800 x 16 threads, however, more than 7000 dollars of pricing makes extra that both core and don't have much appeal.

Although form there are a bunch of higher-end core i9 brother, however, are in fact so long after, perhaps because Intel also didn't expect AMD the waves could be so fast and strong, the lab quantity output to still need some time to let production line to break-in.

AMD's ThreadRipper in the top tier: ThreadRipper --

Less than a month after Intel's i9-7900x release, AMD ThreadRipper 1950X was killed again in August. What did it feel like? That is great, as long as 8000 dollars, 16 nuclear 32 threads, the frequency is stable, the temperature is low, there are no rivals at the same price.

With four Ryzen 7 core wrapped in a piece of thread in a way to design the SOC ripper, makes the product yield improvement and cost can be greatly reduced (area is a little too big), direct and crush the price of similar i9-7900 - x, and this is the first time in the history of AMD surpass Intel's top sovereign core product, that can make us feel the vitality of AMD is back.

18 nuclear 36 threads of i9-7980xe was posted on the PPT for a long time...

Although Intel announced the new i9 family in June, the top i9-7980xe was delayed until November, when a handful of samples were sent to China.

2017 AMD new U summary:

From 4 nuclear mainstream level 3 to hardcore Ryzen 16 nuclear 32 threads thread ripper, AMD release them all within half a year and shop goods finished, 700 yuan to 8500 yuan price has been sharp dragon covered, and the main board price is also true, from B350 to X399, does make gamers are gained.

The full upgrade of the eight-generation core to the rescue --

Eight generations of big boys rage for seven generations.

Has shouldered the eight generations of core in our National Day holiday in early October, i7-8700 - k was upgraded to 6 nuclear 12 threads, i5-8600 - k also upgraded to 6 nuclear thread, you need to know this from the second generation of core start never changes, the number of core abruptly come only suppress the eighth generation of true upgrade, old DIY player's career, is the importance of "competition" in the business world, if AMD can never threaten Intel products appear, the tube of toothpaste and I don't know will be squeezed to the qualifications.

However, Intel's pricing strategy is also good, although I gave you squeeze a fill of toothpaste, but also get the corresponding price increase - i7 from past direct rose to 3399 yuan, 2700 yuan and i5-8600 - k is as high as 8600 yuan, the "upgrade" once spurned by players, upgrade and higher price, what is the difference between this and not rise?

Eight generations i3 is also fully upgraded to 4 nuclear products --

The first i3 is also two, i3-8100 and i3-8350k respectively. However, the price is still in the sky. The price of i3-8350k, which can be overused in the first place, directly mentions 1500 yuan, which is more expensive than the i5 chip in the previous generation. What is the experience of buying an i3? It's an i5-7600k.

Crucial 300 series motherboard, eight generations core has long been criticized for one big reason, can't compatible with the SAN motherboard (though we were LGA1151 interface) (write microcode, buy the BIOS is not in the scope of the machine, have the ability of people on the earth is less than 100000 PPM), and not the chipset of mainstream level only Z370 a, this means that if you just want to buy a i3, you have to match a pricey Z370... The cost of i3 has gone up again, and AMD has a lot of conscience.

So this eight generations of core strategy was a large hole, while the core i3, i5 and i7 got number of ascension, but prices also rose by a big margin, the mainboard also can only choose Z370, how do you let people love you?

The top-of-the-line core i9 comes to the rescue: Intel is back on top.

In early November, core i9-7980 xe just has a small spot appeared in succession, released from its PPT actually spent only a small half a year time, also can see Intel technology is in place, it only took less than a few months can make the monster from the world of production and the performance, this is a matter of high technical content, as for the price is good it is another level.

With 18 nuclear core size 36 thread so exaggerated, and had advantages of mononuclear core architecture, i9-7980 xe beat ThreadRipper 1950 x or expected (about 9%), the price of just 7980 xe is almost twice the 1950 x... As to whether this 9% performance is worth pursuing, it depends on whether your belief in Intel is high enough.

The second generation is on the road with the ninth generation.

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But the real fun starts, AMD has announced the second generation based on 12 nm sharp dragon will be released in April 2018, mainly in the original "Zen" structure optimization, improve the performance of single frequency and mononuclear comprehensive performance of ascension would be considerable.

And the APU based on Ryzen and Vega technology will be officially listed before the Spring Festival, and will its nuclear display have a qualitative leap? Is the entry level unique to be able to receive the skin? Sit back and wait.

（9th core）

According to foreign media revealed that Intel to upgrade the core of the next generation may be more thorough, i3 i5 and upgrade directly with hyper-threading, k and even upgrading to eight core i7-9700 and has 20 MB of three slow, I asked you afraid of!

That is to say, the 2018 CPU core battle over the battle, the performance will continue, AMD the second generation of sharp dragon, Intel ninth core, will give us more surprise and more powerful performance, and of course prices are basically not possible, the reason we discussed slowly again next time.

In 2017, the performance of all of this will continue to climb, and I think it's time to give AMD a favorable comment and give a cheer to AMD.