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AMD Launches Ryzen PRO CPUs: Enhanced Security, Longer Warranty, Better Quality (anandtech.com)
Reader harrisonweber shares a report: This morning AMD introduced their Ryzen PRO processors for business and commercial desktop PCs. The new lineup of CPUs includes the Ryzen 3 PRO, Ryzen 5 PRO and Ryzen 7 PRO families with four, six, or eight cores running at various frequencies. A superset to the standard Ryzen chips, the PRO chips have the same feature set as other Ryzen devices, but also offer enhanced security, 24 months availability, a longer warranty and promise to feature better chip quality. The AMD Ryzen PRO lineup of processors consists of six SKUs that belong to the Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 families targeting different market segments and offering different levels of performance. As one would expect, the Ryzen 7 PRO models are aimed at workstation applications and thus have all eight cores with simultaneous multithreading enabled, the Ryzen 5 PROmodels are designed for advanced mainstream desktops and therefore have four or six cores with SMT, whereas the Ryzen 3 PRO models are aimed at office workloads that work well on quad-core CPUs without SMT. The specifications of the Ryzen 7 PRO and the Ryzen 5 PRO resemble those of regular Ryzen processors. Meanwhile, the Ryzen 3 PRO are the first chips from the Ryzen 3 lineup and thus give us a general idea what to expect from such products: four cores without SMT operating at 3.1-3.5 GHz base frequency along with 2+8 MB of cache.
The phrase "Enhanced Security" almost never means what it says.
Ryzen 7 = Core i7
Ryzen 5 = Core i5
Ryzen 3 = Core i3
Ryzen Pro is Xeon equivalent?
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Are they still pulling their Marketing on the cores are did they finally add in the other half FPU's so all 8 processors have 8 FPU's? or is it more AMD marketing trying to convince you that nobody really needs all the parts on the die for all cores...
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I'm still hoping AMD releases something to compete with the G4560. Maybe a tri-core processor?
I'm curious if they'll release a Threadripper equivalent for laptops. There's a market for higher core count laptops and AMD seems to have the willingness to do it.
Hell, ASUS is already releasing the mammoth Strix GL702ZC which includes a desktop Ryzen 1700 and a full-sized GPU. But that's 3.7 inches thick and I think consumers would want something a bit slimmer.
This could have been the release announcement stating that AMD was going to make its 'PRO' chips for professionals... meaning the PSP was unlocked/allowed sideloading of authentication keys so professional users could ensure the code running in their PSP core was code that THEY trusted, not what the factory/NSA told them to trust.
Instead we get a bunch of 'false security' theater: 'Trust us, these keys for this 'transparent encrypted ram' won't be accessable by anyone else, just like they aren't accessable by you! C'mon, get real, the whole reason for these features is to give people a false sense of security when in actuality all of these 'features' can be compromised easily by the manufacturer or a nation-state actor in order to decrypt the contents of memory and provide them unfettered access, while at the same time obfuscating the operation of software on the system from the system's owners, and from security researchers who might otherwise blow the whistle on the misdeeds taking place in the backend of the processors.
Unless something changes soon we're skipping right past the 'cypherpunk' chapter of the Information age, and going right into the 1984-esque dystopian nightmare, where every electronic device around you is another of big brother's eyes, or ears, or anuses, just waiting to see, hear, or shit all over you.
But not enough people care and soon enough the choice to rebel will be removed from both the mind and capabilities of the commoners to change. Fates will be sealed from now until and unless something even more game changing comes along.
It's an old BMW. Ryzen7 = 7-series Ryzen5 = 5-series Ryzen3 = 3-series
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I imagine SEV is just AMD's version of Intel's SGX.
Secure boot and TPM is pretty standard nowdays and this means Ryzens can't be sold with Windows OEM as the license agreement dictates secure boot and TPM keys.
ROOTkit detection is pretty essential today. So this means only Ryzen Pros offer what Intel has had for years
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That's not what "superset" means... it means quite the opposite, in fact. If Ryzen PRO chips are a superset of Ryzen chips, then all Ryzen chips are Ryzen PRO chips, but not all Ryzen PRO are necessarily Ryzen chips. The intended meaning is the other way around, isn't it? All Ryzen PRO chips are Ryzen chips, but not all Ryzen chips are Ryzen PRO chips, therefore Ryzen chips are a superset of Ryzen PRO chips, or Ryzen PRO chips are a subset of Ryzen chips.
Alternatively, one could say that the *features* of Ryzen PRO chips are a superset of the *features* of Ryzen chips.
A smaller set cannot be a superset of a larger set.
On a different note, I have a very simple question: is there evidence that these kinds of hardware security features actually do thwart attacks in the real world? Just curious.
Warranty? Quality?
Can it run Windows 7 or just Linux, OSX, and Microsoft malware?
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.