AMD Ryzen CPU fest is real and gaining more reviews than that of NVIDIA's rumored attempt to snatch the spotlight with its GeForce GTC 1080 Ti. However, AMD doesn't intend to share and secures its spot by leaking three interesting feature plans ahead of its March 2 release date but the AMD Ryzen frenzy is not complete without a catch. Continue reading to learn more about it.
Recently AMD Ryzen dominated Maxon CineBench's gaming performance benchmarking outperforming the leagues of Intel et al and gaining more grounds to become this generation's King of processors and gaming back up. However, according to PC World, Intel fans may cry foul when they learn about how AMD Ryzen win over Intel Core i7.
AMD Ryzen is reportedly configured the two quad-core Intel CPUs in dual-channel mode. This means Intel variants, Core i7-6900K and Core i7-6800K, sports quad-channel memory support that requires four memory modules while AMD is configured with Intel CPUs in dual-channel mode coupled with two separate RAMs. Although it has low implication but having Broadwell-E CPUs configured will make Intel's performance much better.
On the other hand, there are three new interesting leaks for AMD Ryzen. Firstly, AMD CEO Lisa Su aims for "more performance, half the price," Market Watch reported. AMD highest-performance chip called the Ryzen 7 1800X with 8 cores will be sold at $499 which will directly challenge Intel Core i7-6900K available for more than $1,000. The price range gap is imminent since both are similarly configured 8-core, 16-thread.
Second, AMD Ryzen trademark has dropped the Zen brand due to registry problems but that was what we knew until AMD Marketing Vice President John Taylor revealed that the inspiration actually involves the New Horizons probe to Pluto back in 2015. Whereas, Horizon and Zen are technically the root word of AMD Ryzen. Lastly, after AMD Ryzen, AMD plans to enter laptop SKUs integrating its own line of GPUs. Most notably, AMD Vega 10 GPU could penetrate this arena and build a new processing empire.
