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The enthusiast range pricing will be between 200 to 350 dollars with clock speeds based 3.15 to 3.3 they will have a higher end model that will retail for around 500 dollars with 6 cores and a clock of 3.5 ghz. They will have a top of the line model that will compare to Intel highest end chip for consumer market for around 600 to 700 dollars. It will have a base clock of 3.3 ghz to 3.5 ghz and have 8 cores AMD claims that it can match the nearly double the price i7 extreme at 1,350 dollars. AMD is also working on a 16 core model for workstations that will retail for around 1,000 dollars. This will if it does deliver on the performance numbers give Intel a run for its money. Early tests of the new R490 put it slightly ahead of the the Nvidia 1080 but unlike Intel Nvidia seems more then willing to challenge AMD at all price points.
EDIT: Fun fact the new chips will look like 8 cores "4 cores real" from the operating system because they now support something similar to hyperthreading like Intel upto 32 cores for the 16 core monster.
http://www.christiantoday.com/artic...art.at.200.to.launch.on.january.17/101728.htm
EDIT: Fun fact the new chips will look like 8 cores "4 cores real" from the operating system because they now support something similar to hyperthreading like Intel upto 32 cores for the 16 core monster.
http://www.christiantoday.com/artic...art.at.200.to.launch.on.january.17/101728.htm