The AMD New Horizon event shows absolutely nothing

The disappointing event AMD New Horizon does not reveal any technical data, does not reveal the components and does not give a relevant benchmark test.

A few moments ago the AMD New Horizon event ended, which was based on a 'presentation' that lasted a scant half hour and where we were not able to see anything. The highlight has been the 'confirmation' of the AMD Ryzen processor, which in theory will be the company's most powerful for the desktop. This processor, like we have already told you in a news that came out a few hours ago on our website, it will have six cores and sixteen processing threads, a base frequency of 3.4GHz +, a 2MB L3 + L20 cache, and it will integrate AMD SenseMI technologies.

The only novelty regarding the AMD Ryzen processor is that they have given TDP data, which according to AMD will have a TDP of 95W, something that is very good for a desktop gaming processor. So far the little that we have been able to rescue of interest. The only data has been a 'benchmark' with the Transcoding Demo, in which supposedly the AMD Ryzen has finished the job in 54 seconds, while the Intel i7 6900K has taken 59 seconds.

We imagine they actually used the Ryzen processor, but it could have been anyone because the name of the processor is hidden. We have also noticed that the Intel i7 6900K is manipulated, since the Boost mode that raises it to 3.7GHz has been deactivated, so during the test it has worked at its base frequency of 3.2GHz.

Except for this we do not have any more data. AMD New Horizon has shown several professional gamers playing DOTA 2, apparently one with the Ryzen processor and the other with an unknown Intel processor. A test with the Battlefield with Ryzen and another with Intel has also been shown, but we do not know in what conditions, without FPS, without hardware specifications, without anything.

A stocky graphic designer from AMD has shown us a design, which moved in a fluid way, something that has impressed us, but analyzing it, we do not know if the equipment in question was simply with the Ryzen processor or had the help of a GPU. It is something that we have been missing throughout the talk, data.

They have finally closed with a professional gamer supposedly playing StarWars Battlefront. We say supposedly because we are not clear if it was really playing or it was a video. They have used this game to show the potential of Vega, which will be their new graphics card in combination with Ryzen. According to Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, the game was moving at 4K @ 60FPS. If you tell us that the game moves to 8K @ 60FPS then we believe it the same, because again we have not seen the FPS and hardware specifications anywhere.

It has caught our attention that all the towers with an Intel processor had a large window where you could see the hardware and had LEDs inside and everything, while those of AMD with the Ryzen processor and with the Vega GPU were closed towers, without the possibility of see inside. That is something that puts us on alert.

We are unable to say that AMD has lied to us, but we are also unable to say that AMD has told the truth, the whole truth and only the truth. What we can say is that we have only seen one piece of data, a value that tells us that the AMD processor is ahead of the Intel, but even so, without knowing the hardware of said equipment and with the apparent limitation of the Intel processor, we must To say that we do not know if that data is 100% correct or not.

We can summarize the AMD New Horizon event as: no information, no real data, no evidence, no images, no release date, no official market names, and no price.

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