Come 1 May, AMD will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in the industry. To commemorate its milestone, the company will be launching some limited edition components, chief among which is the Ryzen 7 2700X CPU.
Specifically, the 50th anniversary Ryzen 7 2700X ship out with a slightly tweaked logo on the CPU, plus the signature of Lisa SU, AMD’s CEO, laser-etched into the lid as well. It’s packaging will also be visibly different; instead of AMD’s usual orange and grey colour scheme, the retail packaging of the 50th anniversary CPU will sport a black and gold motif.
As a recap, the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X was launched back in April 2018. The CPU is based AMD’s 12nm die lithography, and features a 8-cores, 16-threads layout. Performance-wise, it has a base clock of 3.7GHz and boost clock of 4.3GHz.
It doesn’t look like the 50th anniversary Ryzen 7 2700X will receive any sort of performance tweaks. Of course, it goes without saying that its pricetag will also be slightly, if not significantly pricier than a normal Ryzen 7 2700X.
There’s also supposed to be a 50th anniversary Radeon VII in the pipelines. Instead of black and gold, though, an image shared by Videocardz hints at the possibility of the card sporting a bright, cherry red cooler shroud.
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In conjunction with its golden jubilee, AMD’s long-time partners have also announced that they will be giving some of their products a facelift too. Sapphire, for example, will be releasing an RX 590 Nitro+ graphics card with a gold colour cooler shroud. While Gigabyte will doing a limited run X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi-50 motherboards.
In any case, AMD will be making the announcement on 29 April, so we’ll just have to wait until then to see what else the brand has in store for us.
(Source: Videocardz, Techspot, PCGamesN)
