AMD back in the fight against Intel with Ryzen?

AMD, that long-suffering underdog has finally rocked Intel’s boat, and how!

After months of, and, Ryzen has finally risen and it’s the company’s most impressive processor lineup yet.

If these promises and benchmarks hold up, Intel will be facing some incredibly tough competition on the desktop/laptop side for the first time in a long, long time.

For those of you just tuning in, Ryzen is AMD’s last, best chance to prove it can compete effectively against Intel’s Core i3/i5/i7 product lines. AMD Ryzen master utility – You guys all know how tweaking works in the Crimson drivers, that same methodology has been applied on the processor front.

What we haven’t seen yet is how they perform when it comes to gaming. In the meantime, it appears that Intel will be somewhat limited in its ability to respond to Ryzen.

The first video shows Battlefield 1 in which the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X runs faster – by around 5 frames – than the Intel i7-6800K. Ryzen 5 CPUs are rumored to cost $165 to $259 when they arrive, and Ryzen 3 CPUs $119 to $149.

The 1700X is the CPU AMD are hoping gamers will embrace. Every one of these processors is unlocked.

The top-end Ryzen 1800X costs $500, which is still not cheap. This is a monstrously powerful graphics setup, and even though 4K might push the bottleneck more toward the GPU, there’s still a minor difference in performance. The eight cores and 16 threads will have no problem breezing through applications and benchmarks as well. The $329 price tag undercuts the i7-7700K, which sells for $350, by about 20 dollars, but AMD claims it will slightly exceed its performance.

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. released details Wednesday on its forthcoming Ryzen chip, including pricing that has the potential to set off a price war with its big rival, Intel Corp.

The multi-threaded chip has been put under the Cinebench R15 test and it came out with a score of 2499. Both Intel chips have a 140W TDP. We await benchmarking tests from third-parties, but Intel looks as though it has a tough fight on its hands from a chip that sits at half price. The $329 Ryzen 7 1700, on the other hand, is positioned against the Core i7-7700K. There is no other consumer-grade 8-core chip with a 65W TDP. “The next evolution of Wraith includes Wraith Spire and Wraith Stealth, offering reliable, near-silent performance enthusiasts expect from the Wraith brand”, said an AMD spokesperson.

This chip will be the fastest one in the “X” lineup. When AMD initially announced that the new Zen microarchitecture they were developing was aiming for a 40% IPC gain, despite the low IPC they were starting from, users remained skeptical.

Clearly, the extra cores and threads offer a noticeable advantage.