[GTALUG] Ryzen 3 Specs for Chipset and other details

[nick]

On 2019-05-27 2:13 p.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:56:39PM -0400, nick via talk wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm sure some of you already know but ryzen 3 was announced today. I don't know
>> all the details but the most interesting things are:
>> * Native PCI Express 4 and USB 3.1 on the chipset not sure about GEN 2
>> * 64 Core Data Center Processors with hyper threading I'm assuming so 128 threads
>> * Not been tested externally but IPC per core similar to Intel 
>>
>> This is a link to the discussion on motherboards:
>> https://hothardware.com/news/amd-x570-ryzen-3000-zen-2-motherboard-roundup
>>
>> Seems to be a interesting product stack,
> 
> It does indeed.
> 
> Although pretty sure it is Ryzen 3000 not Ryzen 3, given the models seem
> to be named Ryzen 3, 5, 7 and 9 (Similar to intels i3, i5, i7 and i9),
> and the 3rd gen is the 3000 series models.
> 
> I just saw an MSI X570 board review and at least that one mentioned USB
> 3.1 Gen 2 unless I misunderstood something.
> 

The more interesting  thing with those boards seems to be that according to MSI
not sure about others on the 200 dollar and over Canadian boards there will be
a added card for 10gbs networks which is a great value. Probably just some low
end 100 dollar card but still it's a neat add on. 

Nick