Asus leaks more Ryzen 3 1200 details
 

Still coming in Q3 2017

While AMD is happily selling Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 CPUs and has announced the Ryzen Threadripper series, there is not much information about the Ryzen 3 lineup, other than it should launch in Q3 2017.

What makes them interesting is that Ryzen 3 lineup should ship in various quad-core SKUs and Asus has leaked a bit more information regarding the Ryzen 3 1200 SKU. The Ryzen 3 1200 is a quad-core SKU with 8MB of L3 cache, 3.1GHz base clock and the same 65W TDP, just as the low part of the Ryzen 5 lineup. The CPU was spotted in Asus' ROG Crosshair VI Hero (Wi-Fi AC) motherboard CPU support list.

Earlier rumors also suggested that the Ryzen 3 lineup will lack AMD Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT), so we will be looking at quad-core parts with "just" four threads. On the other hand, this should be enough for AMD to counter most, if not all of Intel's Core i3, Pentium and Celeron Kaby Lake lineup, all of which are dual-core parts and even thread into Intel's Core i5 Kaby Lake lineup.

http://fudzilla.com/news/processors/...3-1200-details