My problem is not even the gaming performance, because that could be improved with patches.
I Have mainly 3 Problems with the Ryzen(and im an AMD fun):
1. Why Dual Channel RAM.... At the moment as I saw even if the mainboards can partially OC the RAMs even to 3600 MHz, but just on 2 slots, if I use 4 slots, the speed would drastically fall. I hope thats possible to change with a bios update
2. Overclocking and XFR - was so much wrote about the XFR..and even if I push a Predator 240 or Predator 360 I can get +100 Mhz from XFR.. that very very disapointing, the same about overclocking...the 6900 is able to overclock to 4,4Ghz and by the Ryzen 1800X is by 4,1 the end.....by the XFR range...
3. 20 PCI Lanes. Why to make X370 chipset for SLI setups with 20 PCI lanes. SLI setup is mostly made with high end GPUs which need x16 for the best performance. 20 Lanes are definetly not enough for a good modern processor. there should be at least 40. 2x 16 for the SLI setups and 2x 4 for two M2 or U2 slots.
1. Intel uses quad channel ram on Xeons with 22 cores, why does an 8 core need more than dual? x99 chips show negligible performance lose on dual channel for most applications. You have a point and the 4 dimm stability.
2. I don't know enough about silicone lithography to be for sure about this, but it comes down to a few things. AMD does not control the process, so this 14nm process was probably originally made with mobile chips in mind, with a focus on efficiency over out right performance.
Density, according to public numbers Ryzen is 25 mil transistors per a square mm and Intel's current chips all workout to about 15 mil per mm². High density should help prices with more chips per a wafer but hurt the chips ability to clock higher.
I'm not expert so that is all speculation.
3. More PCI lanes is more cost. For mainstream applications no GPU released yet will experience more than a few percent or less hit to performance running in pci-e 3 x8 vs x16. This has been tested and verified.
For the m.2 drives, if you want to run 2 x4 m.2 drives on a comparable price Intel platform, you are going to be running both drives with x4 pci-e connections to a PCH that is connected to the processor by... Pci-e 3 x4 speeds or stealing from the 16 direct lanes for gpu.
For the price brackets this platform and cpu's fall into, I feel this is all very fair. We even get bonuses like ecc memory being allowed. I don't know why ecc memory is not the only memory at this point, but where AMD does not pay to certify ecc support like servers need they still allow it. Intel artificially blocks ecc support encourage you to spend more money.
Instead of burning Ryzen for its faults, let's identify them and hold AMD accountable for fixing what it can. Let's buy Ryzen if it makes sense for our use case. And let's enjoy the first competition among x86 CPUs in years.