AMD Zen processors are expected to take on Intel in 2017, thanks to the huge leap over their current offerings for both gaming and business applications.
Intel has dominated the processor market for several years now with their Core i3, i5 and i7 series. They have recently released the seventh generation called the Kaby Lake processors while AMD is still brewing their Zen offerings for 2017.
Gamers have been expecting Zen to come out before 2016 ends as AMD CEO Lisa Su stated before, but that does not seem to be the case anymore, PC World reported. There is no word from AMD yet and patrons are now just setting their expectations for the release date to be set around 2017 and not 2016 anymore.
AMD Zen chips still have no real-life benchmarks but the company does claim that they are 40 percent faster than their previous offerings. It is a huge leap over the last processors and is actually larger than the gains from Intel's product line.
One of the probable reasons why Intel only has small percentage increases in terms of performance for their processors is that they focused on efficiency. AMD Zen could change that thinking because of their improvement in both performance and power.
Analysts are now expecting that the AMD Zen processors may contribute $1 billion in revenue for the company in 2017, Amigobulls reported. The company has already seen exceptional sales with their new Radeon 4XX line thanks to the new Polaris 10 and 11 GPUs.
Besides the Zen, AMD is also expected to release the new Vega 10 and Vega 11 GPUs in 2017. Since the Radeon RX 480 video card cannot take on the NVIDIA GTX 1080, the new GPUs are supposedly taking on the Pascal GPUs. NVIDIA will reportedly release the GTX 1080 Ti in 2017 with an appearance also expected at CES 2017.
AMD Zen and their Vega GPUs could propel the company up again and could beat both Intel and NVIDIA at the same time. Their offerings are still expected to be targeted for the mainstream audience but they also have chips for business and enterprises.
Learn more about AMD Zen with Paul's Hardware's "A First Look" video: