Ryzen Release Thread

[RolloTheGreat]

How did they do that?

Bulldozer was $245 at launch, and very much unlike Ryzen, it sometimes won(at least beat Intel) benches the enthusiasts care about-

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/the-b...0-tested/8

Another take-

No, it’s not a dud—unless you’re looking to replace a 5-year-old, quad-core Intel Core i5 chip for mainstream gaming at the most popular display resolution. There, the Ryzen 7 1700 can stumble, and stumble hard.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3176100/c...tml?page=2

Bulldozer was never *THAT* bad. Getting embarrassed by a five year old mid tier CPU? Ryzen is a new low for AMD IMO.

I don't think it's that bad, it's WAY better than what it replaces. (and certainly better than the BeefDozer)

It appears that at higher resolutions it gets into the intel performance range, and it's still above 8370s by a good deal at 1080p.

If you combine that with industry leading performance at several office apps and chipset that will undoubtedly have their growing pains I'd say AMD has come full circle to the days I used to buy their parts on principle alone.

I could see buying one of these if I was in the market, been a long time since I've done any 1080p gaming.

An uneven effort, but as I've said before:

If you're doing something second best on the planet, you're still better than almost everybody else.