{"id":200966,"date":"2017-03-04T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=200966"},"modified":"2017-03-04T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T11:03:20","slug":"the-end-of-intels-reign-over-pc-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/200966-the-end-of-intels-reign-over-pc-gamers.html","title":{"rendered":"The end of Intel’s reign over PC gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the launch of its new Ryzen processors, AMD has threatened Intel’s position in the high-end desktop CPU market.<\/p>\n

Intel’s Broadwell-E processors might boast high-end multi-core performance, but this is reflected by their high price.<\/p>\n

AMD has upset the market with its high-value eight-core processors and their increased performance over Intel’s multi-core solutions.<\/p>\n

Intel has continued to refine its architecture and provide small performance boosts each generation, while AMD has launched its new Ryzen processors – which are set to compete with the longstanding market leader.<\/p>\n

Ryzen 7<\/h3>\n

The most powerful Ryzen processor is the Ryzen 7 1800X, which AMD said is the fastest eight-core processor in the world.<\/p>\n

Despite its impressive performance, it is priced at R8,199 – less than half the price<\/a><\/strong> of the Intel Core i7 6900K (R18,591).<\/p>\n

This price difference makes the Ryzen line-up a great choice for high-end desktop users looking for a powerful and affordable eight-core CPU with relatively low power consumption.<\/p>\n

Another important feature of Ryzen 7 processors is that all chips are unlocked, unlike Intel’s Core processors.<\/p>\n

The increased implementation of new APIs allows processors with good multi-threaded performance to scale well in future applications, including high-resolution gaming.<\/p>\n

Below are benchmarks published by AMD for the Ryzen 7 1800X and Intel Core i7 6900K.<\/p>\n

\"Ryzen<\/a><\/p>\n

Microarchitecture<\/h3>\n

Intel’s approach to desktop processor architecture has changed since it reached the 14nm processor node, breaking its “tick-tock” design model.<\/p>\n

The “tick-tock” model involves the release of two architectures per fabrication process node, with the second being a refinement of the previous architecture on the same manufacturing process.<\/p>\n

The company previously progressed through architectures in this manner, but has remained on the 14nm fabrication process of late – choosing to continue optimising its microarchitecture.<\/p>\n

While Intel has been upgrading its processors with small performance and clock speed improvements on the 14nm process, AMD has been working on Ryzen – the company’s first desktop CPU architecture manufactured on the 14nm process node.<\/p>\n

Intel’s Kaby Lake chips received\u00a0criticism<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for their small performance increase over previous CPU generations, with the the new processors providing little motivation for upgrading from a Skylake product – apart from Optane support and slightly-higher clock speeds.<\/p>\n

AMD has reportedly seen a 52% increase in IPC compared to its previous processor architecture, which is the result of a new process node and redesigned CPU architecture.<\/p>\n

While Intel’s mainstream – and more affordable – desktop products still remain unchallenged, AMD is yet to unveil its Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 processors.<\/p>\n

These are set to compete with Intel’s Core i7, Core i5, and Core i3 CPUs.<\/p>\n

If the price-per-performance ratio of Ryzen 7 processors scales down to AMD’s mainstream Ryzen products, Intel’s popular Core i5 and Core i7 gaming chips could be the next CPUs threatened by AMD’s new processors.<\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0Nvidia unveils hugely-powerful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the launch of its new Ryzen processors, AMD has threatened Intel’s position in the high-end desktop CPU market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":177605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[577,35,131,36584,40396,40218],"class_list":["post-200966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-headline","tag-intel","tag-kaby-lake","tag-processors","tag-ryzen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201388,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200966\/revisions\/201388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}