Editors Liked
- Great multi-core performance
- Excellent value for most applications
- Trades blows with Intel's Core i7-6900K at half the price
- Solid power draw
- Smooth gaming with strong minimum frame rates
- Attractive new AM4 platform
- Easy-to-use Ryzen Master software
- Huge performance leap over previous generation AMD FX processors
Editors Didn't Like
- Still behind in gaming
- Not great overclockers
- Single core performance lags behind competing Intel "Kaby Lake" chips
- Chipsets don't have as many PCI Express/SATA ports as Intel's offerings
Intel has been hitting a development wall for some time now, or at least hasn't been focused nor pressured into delivering larger gains in raw processing power. This might afford AMD a chance to catch up even further. In the short term we expect Intel to adjust prices and you can expect the company to continue scrambling as AMD turns up the heat with four and six-core Ryzen CPUs.
As reviewed by TechSpot