AMD's new Ryzen chip.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

ATEOTD I'm not sure anyone with a current Intel or one of the previous gen E CPUs would see the need to move to a Ryzen, however, IMO, it is about time that AMD became competitive again. Last time I remember this was with a 2.1Ghz Athlon, about 15 years or so ago (Opterons were quite reasonable at the time too).

We will hopefully see price reductions from Intel, and with some maturity on the AMD side (or even just a revision of microcode, code, or compilers), on par performance in both single threaded and multi threaded that give us choice on a much better level than there has been for the last decade.

I certainly hope the Ryzen does offer good competitiveness. That's the only way we're going to continue seeing fast innovation out of Intel. That said, it's been a while since anyone talked about Moore's Law. I'd really like to see some battle royales going on in the CPU industry again. (And as much as I like the NVidia GPUs, the same applies there.)

[Lyonheart]

(And as much as I like the NVidia GPUs, the same applies there.)

All the reviews i keep reading on the 1080Ti getting priced at $700us is due to the upcoming AMD GPUs. SO it looks like the fight is back on for both CPUs and GPUs! I hope!