I heard news that they were dropping all the introductory pricing they had previously announced to better compete with Nvidia Super launch prices.

They are and AMD has called Nvidia's bluff! Its completely savage to throw out fake prices then Nvidia brings out the Super cards and their pricing then AMD trolls them with the "sales" prices which are really just the regular prices LOL! I love Nvidia and AMD but this competition is like the electronics version of the muscle car wars!

Tomorrow is the big day though! I'm perfectly happy with my 2700x and 1950x but it's going to be exciting to see AMD take the lead. I never used to like AMD at all and would always steer clear of them and build Intel systems and recommend them to others but now I'm team red. I bought a laptop for college in 2011 and all Walmart had in stock was an HP ENVY with an AMD processor. Let me tell you... that laptop is still going strong to this day and is still pretty quick by todays standards.

Maybe he was an English Major which means "pretty quick" Word processing. :)

is still pretty quick by todays standards.

This your AMD A8-5550M? Depends on what you mean by quick.
At less than 1/4 of the performance of current high end laptops, and roughly 1/3 of the performance of current mid range laptops, i'd have to say it's not very quick at all by todays standards.

I heard news that they were dropping all the introductory pricing they had previously announced to better compete with Nvidia Super launch prices.

Several of the "rumor mills" were swearing up and down that we would have pre-ordering for the new Ryzen 3000 cpus available 7 days before shipping. As of this morning I haven't seen any pre-ordering available on New Egg or eBay.

Anyone seen anything?

Tom

You wouldn't be able to do that many at a time without using the 2080 Ti which has enough memory for 4 tasks at a time. The differences in product stack in relation to ability to do multiple work units per card has less to do with the number of SM's but rather with the amount of memory on the card. The 1080Ti, Titan and 2080Ti have 11GB of memory whereas the lesser cards are all limited to 8GB or less.

The OpenCL SoG application has a limit of 27% of available gpu memory for Nvidia cards. Somewhere around 40-60% for ATI/AMD cards. Two concurrent tasks is about all you can manage with lesser cards.

Good to know these are coming. I was looking to upgrade to an RTX series. Guess i should wait a bit longer for price drops on the first generation. :)

Since you are running the normal platform decided by the schedulers, they have sent you some of the older applications. The scheduler is still trying to determine the best app for your host. The CUDA42 and CUDA50 applications are MUCH slower than the SoG application. You are just going to have to suffer through the CUDA42 and CUDA50 tasks until the APR's for those apps are established and the SoG app wins out in the end. The only way to circumvent this scenario is to run the anonymous platform where YOU get to decide which apps to run.

You could take it another notch further along by running better cpu apps via the Lunatics Installer. The stock cpu app is pretty pokey. The choice of either the SSE3 or AVX cpu app in the Lunatics Installer would get your crunching times down another 20-30% faster than the stock cpu application. The Lunatics Installer is here:

http://mikesworld.eu/download.html

Make sure you select the SoG gpu application in the configurator.

What kind of speeds are you running the TR at? It still seems slow which I allude to probably both the stock app and base clocks. You can get a lot more clocks out of the TR than the base clocks with some BIOS tuning.