AMD Ryzen undeniably made its presence felt after specs revelation during New Horizon event last week. Together with its speculated $500 price, Zen based CPU gained promising comments from anticipating consumers worldwide.
After a series of attempts to beat the dominance of Intel in the CPU industry, Advanced Micro Devices believes that they have already found the key ingredient to outsell and outclass the currently dominant brand through its Zen based processors. With the impending arrival of Ryzen processors in the Q1 of 2017, AMD expects a massive success after warm welcome and great anticipation has been displayed by consumers and enthusiasts alike after the sneak preview of AMD Ryzen last December 13, 2016.
That being said, the next-generation processor architecture from AMD will dictate the buying tendency of consumers, especially if the company's much-anticipated processor will deliver performance as hyped. As per Digital Trends, Ryzen's specifications are expected to deliver better performance at any given clock speed. The report also highlighted that AMD claimed Ryzen is an even match for Intel's top-end Core i7-6900K. Thus, adding to the excitement of the processor's arrival.
Moreover, in a separate report and together with its rumored potential $500 price, AMD Ryzen's specs also come with a 40% IPC performance uplift, better cache system, better core engine, and much aggressive clock gating with multi-level regions.
Under such circumstances, legions of loyal AMD fans, and current Intel users are hinting a potential upgrade to Ryzen. Various social media, forum post and video sharing platforms showcased a positive response regarding AMD's latest CPU offering.
Moreover, PC Gamer also noted that even though AMD will not totally beat Intel toe-to-toe, the company bringing competition back into the processor market is still a great news. Thus, somehow suggesting that Intel might markdown their product to compete with AMD Ryzen and its speculated low price with promising key features.