Advanced Micro Devices' Ryzen CPUs are freezing PCs running specific code, but AMD says it has a fix
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) was expecting to be celebrating right about now. The beginning of its campaign to grab back marketshare from Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is underway. The new Ryzen 7 CPU was released with considerable fanfare at the start of March, the Ryzen 5 is coming in a matter of weeks, and its new Naples CPUs for data centers have been announced.
Unfortunately, there’s a snag and it’s a pretty serious one. Those new AMD Ryzen CPUs are causing PCs to lock up. Advanced Micro Devices has confirmed the issue and is working on a fix.
Not even remotely similar, the Intel bug was a rare computational error and didn't cause the CPU to permanently halt.
Julian Perry
That sounds exactly like this bug actually.
Asher Gonzalez
DELET
Ryder Torres
BTFO
Brody Myers
AMD SUCKS HD graphics is better than Cryzen
Luke Thomas
hahaha
Aaron Baker
OY VEY SHUT IT DOWN
Jaxon Russell
kek this triptard just gets btfo day in day out
Adrian Ross
same as skylake..
Ayden Davis
TRIPFAG BTFO'D
Daniel Ortiz
bye bye tripfag
James Lewis
>cognitive dissonance
Nicholas Peterson
S A V A G E
Parker Anderson
it's illegal for you to visit these sites
Xavier Cook
>but AMD says it has a fix
holy shit....
fool me once, shame on you...
fool me 174,388 times...
Isaac Cruz
Meanwhile Intel never did this. >oh wait, Skylake locking Prime95 (actual software, not a fringe special test code). But this shows Intel bugs get fixed no problem! >oh wait, TSX had to be disabled from shipping Haswell chips without compensation/recall >oh wait, there were those stability bugs with Skylake and Broadwell with TSX too >Haswell chipset USB 3.0 sleep issue that was not fixed and hardware sold with it >Sandy Bridge chipset recall because SATA ports die over time >Atom C2000 servers recall because chip's clock generator dies over time
Tyler Adams
Is there an atom c2000 recall now? Last I head they were setting billions of money aside and saying nothing was wrong whilst hard ware companies were extending warranty.
Nicholas Myers
Prime 95 is real-world software. The code that trips Ryzen is not, it is just a loop od FMA isntruction that is unusable in practice (no load/store of values, just calculations lopp).
Kayden Lopez
The vendors will replace stuff, or at least some of them. The issue is real, and unless they will go cynical with "hey it's out of warranty now", they will have to recall the boards (the SoC is soldered).
I don't know if it is possible to do some on-PCB hack to save an already existing affected board, but such would still need a recall of the motherboard.
Intel and the vendors prefer to be hush-hush about it but between the lines it is basically a recall situation.
Ryder Miller
> muh infallible Intel
This AVX bug is literally nothing, easily fixable in microcode. The old TLB bug was 1000x worse.
Educate yourself on FDIV and Haswell TSX if you want to see some nasty ones.
Leo Sanders
The better question might be - what serious (freezing/crashing) bug actually happened with AMD CPUs/chipsets, ever since the TLB snafu in 2007/2008?
I recall Llano has an erratum in the divider, but that stuff must be unlikely to trigger because it was found way later and not even talked about much. So probably not a problem for users.
Jack Jones
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Brandon Roberts
>but AMD says it has a fix >but AMD says it has a fix >but AMD says it has a fix >but AMD says it has a fix >but AMD says it has a fix
Thread shouldn't ever have gotten past 1 reply.
Owen Gomez
I'd drop that trip now if I were you.
Christian Bennett
it's literally the same stupid retard making all the anti-AMD threads I bet he spends all day looking for Ryzen defects to post about
Didn't even know such a thing existed my 1700X running smooth as butter no lockups whatsoever
Dominic Morgan
goodbye forever if we see you again we know you're a retard
Jose Hernandez
t: CNN
Ryder Price
It only triggers in that special code that the author only wrote for testing years back. Doesn't happen in any real software.
Jonathan Roberts
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Mason Cox
delete yourself, retard
Angel Flores
Eternal bump for this tripshit getting BTFO once again. Honestly just make a new trip at this point.
Joshua Nguyen
Daily reminder for all tripfags.
Jacob Ward
>When you see a failure so bad that you do not hold back Hot damn, good job.
Ryan Adams
eternal bump
Juan Lee
You sent that tripfaggot to the shadow realm
Ayden Thompson
Let this thread live, intel fag got BTFO
Jack Gutierrez
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Andrew Hernandez
what freezing? I haven't had any current uptime is 9 days
Logan Cooper
i feel really bad for tripfags.
i don't think they know what they are doing .
Jaxon Phillips
eternal rub it in
Carter Davis
Fuck you, I want his retarded as yo stay tripped as he has never once posted something worth reading.
Noah Gray
Get a grip clown, I know you're not actually this retarded on purpose.
intel has had this very similar problem since like haswell
Colton Mitchell
Fight! fight! fight!
Owen Torres
Fuck off, I'm not gonna fight my internet friend. But I have to honestly admit what he just said was so dumb I can't defend him.
Easton Ortiz
:^(
Carson Bennett
And just who in the jolly shit are you?
Jose White
a mason, that's all
Oliver Kelly
kek
Lucas Collins
mine wasn't one.
Jeremiah Edwards
intel shills BTFO
Carson Martinez
Does the guy with the Chinese name think he's Asian or something?
Seriously beawesome you WERE a nice tripfag. Now you're just plain stupid spouting nonsense
Angel Morgan
It translates to "I really love you, Sawako", but it is written in an exaggerated way even most married people are ashamed of doing, you will mostly hear it from weeaboo cancer.
Jackson Rodriguez
It's beta and they removed the links after a while. Better wait for a stable release of the update, since buggy BIOS can be tricky.
Anthony Edwards
>First new x86 architecture since the pentium 3 >expecting it to be a smooth launch. early adopters get what they get
Ian Butler
>First new x86 architecture since the pentium 3 ?
Isaac Ward
>enhance capability with DOS operation kek, windows 7 is "too old", but DOS is a-ok
Gavin Ward
He's retarded. Intel still continues to rape P6 core though.
Parker Turner
I have a AMD Radeon graphics card which may be not supported by Ubuntu 16.04. What should I do? Will upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10 or downgrading to 14.04 solve the issue? If yes, will it work as good as the graphics card works on Windows? Also will have to configure my computer or will the system work perfectly after upgrading or downgrading?
Am I damaging my computer by not using a OS supporting the graphics card? Also my laptop takes like ~50 seconds to boot? Is that because of the incompatible graphics card?
Jonathan Powell
Funny how the tripfag did not respond anymore. must be shitting himself.
Samuel Diaz
Why compare it with Intel? I don't get it. AMD had to make a move and knew that everyone would look at them and they fucked it up. It doesn't really matter if your new gen of CPUs has problems if your last gen of CPUs is still highend. AMD's last gen of CPUs wasnt even recommendable for office pc builds because of all the downsides.
Angel Rogers
>Why compare it with Intel? Hmm... maybe both companies main product are x86-64 CPUs? Really makes you think.
Angel Taylor
Yes because one of those user bases are forced to stay because of the applications they use. The other is mindless sheep which you can just herd wherever you like.
Ayden Roberts
But intel can afford to fuck up, AMD can't. It took them like what, 10 years? to finally release a CPU that can compete with Intels stuff and now it has bugs.
Sebastian Moore
>But intel can afford to fuck up, AMD can't. Oh no, AMD can allows themselves everything, as long as basic uarch is good enough. And Zen is surprisingly good and extremly efficient.
Robert Hughes
So are you telling me that I should wait for the next gen of ryzen cpus because those will actually be good? :^)
I think I've heard that for the last couple of years when it comes to AMD.
Jeremiah Cook
>So are you telling me that I should wait for the next gen of ryzen cpus because those will actually be good? :^) Don't even fucking buy AMD. Buy Intel™, they have no bugs. Oh wait,
Robert Mitchell
Just answer my question without using sarcasm. I have a 5 year old intel CPU and I'm planning on upgrading because my mainboard is starting to show its age.
Michael Peterson
Buy Intel. Just fucking buy it goyim.
Nathaniel Bennett
goyim is plural for goy.
Also >without using sarcasm
pls
Charles Parker
I said you need to buy Intel.
Colton Rogers
Daily bumparoo
Jose Lewis
user, every CPU ships with 50-100 if not more errata - including Intels. Lots of them lock chip up, they are just rare (as is this one - reminder that no actual software triggers this bug), often so much that they are not even addressed.
Some CPUs don't even boot correctly if you disable microcode blob update from the motherboard BIOS.
Errata are fact of life in modern CPUs.
Interestingly though, nobody yet responded to which might show that AMD actually has had less bugs with actual impact in since 2008.
John Wood
Not him, but the current Ryzen looks quite good already. I don't think it has the "v2 was much better than v1" syndrome like Phenom 1 had, or Bulldozer against Piledriver.
Actually, if Ryzen v2 was like 10-15% faster than the current one, that would actualyl be kinda scary. The arch has such a high IPC that I find it hard to believe next iteration can be more than 5% better per clock. I think what could mostly improve would be memory clocks (like, DDR4 2933 supported by default, 3200-3500 easier to get working).
Basically if you want multicore performance (and not just PC for gaymes), your choice is Ryzen octo or sexcore ot Broadwell-E 6-8core. Given the price of CPU and motherboards, the choice is clearly AMD.
Wyatt Smith
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Gavin Allen
New CPU architecturess have one average like 100 bugs that are fixed with microcode after release, even Intel ones. This doesn't mean anything at all.
John Edwards
what is this clip from
Jaxson Hernandez
Even the old/"tick"/evolutionary ones. Most of them are actually left "No fix planned". And we are till alive.
Dirty Pair movie.
Jason Jackson
>Intel still having issues with 8th generations of architecture, still get a pass free card >AMD have issues with brand new arch, slammed for it
Jason Hernandez
Pic related
Owen Cruz
He has always been dumb as bricks, he used to believe AMD joined Khronos in 2013, along with a plethora of FUD and plain retardation whenever it shittalked AMD
Benjamin Lewis
BTFO
Isaac Collins
What Am I looking at?
Josiah Evans
Trips
Charles Baker
The first Pentium would give wrong FP divisions in certain occasions, that graph showcases the error, it's supposed to be flat
Grayson Russell
Daily remind that this thread is only being bumped to humiliate this trapfagging faggot.
Jose Jenkins
Bumping this as a reminder, fuck tripfags
Zachary Perry
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Nathan Sanders
Immortalized
Julian Gutierrez
PISSPHONE BTFO AGAIN
Jonathan Mitchell
No matter; we shall keep bumping this thread as a constant reminder to all tripshits.