MrClass wroteSee AMD is missing the point. They are just trying to get back into the game. They want to just reach the same performance level as Intel, but not exceed it. If AMD wants to gain back part of the market share (basically stealing customers from Intel), they should give us a reason. It's is not easy to do so with their current lineup. Should have they released a processor with faster clocks than a 7700K and more/equal cores to let's say a 6950X for cheaper cost, people would switch instantly. But now you'll see people are not that interested, they are happy with what they have and don't have the incentive to switch.
I think it is a bit early to say that they did not exceed Intel yet, which is by the way is not an easy task to achieve, we will not have any miracles in the CPU industry, all the changes done are cores/threads/cache etc, so there is no revolution in this sector unless new material is discovered and proven to be useful (light based cpu maybe)
I agree that there is no need to switch if someone is currently running minimum a second gen CPU but that is not the only scenario up there, they chose to go with the top version of the Ryzen 7 for workstation I guess for a good reason, with a lot of early bugs in the BIOS for the different board manufacturers also the developers of the games doesnt have a CPU with this new architecture to work on, this would damage the launch of a gaming focused new CPU.
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