Independent testing of Ryzen (including our own in-depth benchmarking and analysis) confirms what AMD has promising all along, that its fancy new CPU architecture is the real deal and it is able to compete with Intel at the high end. The only caveat is that…
Independent testing of Ryzen (including our own i n-depth benchmarking and analysis ) confirms what AMD has promising all along, that its fancy new CPU architecture is the real deal and it is able to compete with Intel at the high end. The only caveat is that Ryzen’s gaming performance is not where many thought it would be, especially considering the architecture’s excellent IPC efficiency and performance in other areas, such as Cinebench and POV-Ray. What gives? The short answer is, this is a temporary thing until developers get rolling with optimizations. During an „Ask Me Anything“ (AMA) session at Reddit, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su was asked point blank if gaming performance was something the chip designer will work towards going forward with Ryzen. Her reply was an emphatic, „Absolutely!,“ adding that gamers „should expect gaming performance to only get better with time as the developers have more time with ‚Zen. „If there is skepticism over AMD’s explanation, it’s understandable, but we’re not so quick to dismiss it as lip service. Just the opposite, there is every reason to believe that AMD is shooting it straight and that gaming performance will in fact improve over time.
