Mitochondria wrote Nothing has ever been as good as the hype, Kaby was a major hype for a refresh? and a better IPC. Ryzen is suitable for content creation, and keeps up and passes Intel on the multi core tasks at times. Intel has single core advantage, which is another reason Intel is much better for gaming. Like I said it hasn't even had its chance to mature. 13 Mentioned it, the R5 series seems promising, as the R7 did seem more along the line of multitasking/moderate workstation consumers.

There was no hype for Kaby Lake lol. Ryzen was waayyy over hyped by people saying that it was going to be good, which was just blatant lies. It was however worth the wait since it was the first decent CPU microarchitecture AMD released in almost a decade. It's a let down in terms of gaming IMO but it's at least some competition.

R5 is what I'm looking forward to and have been because they should be priced between 7350k and 7600k($180-$240) and all R5 chips will be unlocked. If R5 chips perform similarly to i5's in gaming, which they should, then R5 vs i5 could be interesting, IMO.

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GT40 wrote It seems promising, first let AMD & it's board partners work out the early on issues that before considering it.

so what do you think? 3 months? 1 month? what are we looking at for amd to get it done

I'd give it a month or 2

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Mitochondria wrote Nothing has ever been as good as the hype, Kaby was a major hype for a refresh? and a better IPC. Ryzen is suitable for content creation, and keeps up and passes Intel on the multi core tasks at times. Intel has single core advantage, which is another reason Intel is much better for gaming. Like I said it hasn't even had its chance to mature. 13 Mentioned it, the R5 series seems promising, as the R7 did seem more along the line of multitasking/moderate workstation consumers.

There was no hype for Kaby Lake lol. Ryzen was waayyy over hyped by people saying that it was going to be good, which was just blatant lies. It was however worth the wait since it was the first decent CPU microarchitecture AMD released in almost a decade. It's a let down in terms of gaming IMO but it's at least some competition.

R5 is what I'm looking forward to and have been because they should be priced between 7350k and 7600k($180-$240) and all R5 chips will be unlocked. If R5 chips perform similarly to i5's in gaming, which they should, then R5 vs i5 could be interesting, IMO.

Kaby had hype just for new chipsets that is about it. Ryzen was a letdown in gaming, but in reality AMD hasn't ever made the best chips for gaming. As for Ryzen's workstation use it is plausible on multicore tasks. Intel still wins in the i7 vs R7 series of chips. Hopefully the make up in R5 or R3, either way they did get a decent step back in to the enthusiast arena. Not as much for gaming but in other tasks they perform fairly decent.

Mitochondria wrote Kaby had hype just for new chipsets that is about it.

There definitely was no hype for Kaby Lake. Even if there was a little, it was nowhere near as much as Ryzen.

Mitochondria wrote Ryzen was a letdown in gaming, but in reality AMD hasn't ever made the best chips for gaming.

They have. Just not in a long time.

Mitochondria wrote Intel still wins in the i7 vs R7 series of chips.

Depends on the program being used.

Mitochondria wrote Hopefully the make up in R5 or R3

I don't know how R3 is going to go since the G4560 is so cheap. R3 chips will be more expensive and might offer similar performance. If some R3 SKUs offer better performance than the G4560 for a little bit more money, they could be a good middle ground between G4560 and i5/R5. G4560 is still going to be budget king though IMO.

I thought Ryzen destroyed the i7 in dollar vs performance. Some games will utilize the processor architecture better than others. Look at arma 3, cores/threads are practically redundant compared to clock speed. BF might just be the opposite. I myself was looking into getting a 7600k but am now waiting for the Ryzen 5 to release even if its just for the discount on intel some retailers have.

Ryzen has hype only because AMD has been laying on the sidewalk bleeding out for a good while whereas intel was always johnny on the spot

Heres a good video displaying 7's gaming capabilities (running sli too):


And a good point: