in the late 90s and early 2000s there was actually a pretty good chance that
someone shopping for a pc was buying one for the first time maybe to check out
that newfangled internet these days though not only does pretty much every
household in the us already have a computer but with the slow iterative
improvements that Intel has been making over the last five years unless it's a
pretty darn old one it probably does
everything they really need it to do and an upgrade to the latest hardware
would be unlikely to bring about a worthwhile increase in performance but
AMD's ryzen promised to give people a
reason to upgrade again bringing more processing cores than ever before to
lower price points than ever before so
now that the whole lineup is available is it actually worth the upgrade for you
we've got the answer and you can watch the video for it or you can just click
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verizon's early bugs prevented us from issuing a
full-on recommendation but the good news
today is that many of the issues present at ryzen 7's launch have now been fixed
as long as you don't try using RAM faster than 3200 megahertz which we've
tested to be the point of greatly diminishing returns anyway and this is
great because there are reasons to upgrade to a new system beyond raw CPU
speed both mechanical and solid-state drives slow down over time maybe you've
got a bad capacitor somewhere causing weird stability issues or maybe you just
want more modern features like m.2 drive
support and native usb 3.1 10 gigabit the last of which is actually unique to
AMD's platform at this time now our initial testing of each ryzen product
has consistently put AMD's offerings in the same general ballpark as the blue
team's similarly priced modern counterparts typically trading off per
thread performance for sometimes vastly superior multi-threaded performance with
background tasks like encoding and
streaming gameplay simultaneously benefiting dramatically you can see just
how much in our stream quality investigation here so AMD likes to think
that all of this makes for a very compelling deal
but how does ryzen stack up against your old
battle station we've grabbed four common cpus off the
shelf since the turn of the decade to answer this question once and for all
now as we dive in with gaming and single-threaded workloads we can already
see how the trade-off between per thread and multi-threading impacts ryzen
it generally trails behind even Intel's
older hardware and games but beats even Intel's newest offerings
in multi-threaded workloads so if you're a gamer running an older
core i5 or core i7 and you are into
streamer and you're not interested in any of the platform improvements
honestly you might be better off investing in
some more cool games to play or like a new wireless mouse or something
with that said if you're in the never Intel camp and you're an AMD user who's
been waiting and waiting for a compelling upgrade
go ahead pull the trigger and feel good about it
now let's look at the productivity and creative workloads wow
if your use case isn't purely gaming
it's pretty much a sure thing that you're going to realize some kind of
noticeable performance benefit from an upgrade to ryzen
as we observed in our launch reviews even compared to Intel's latest and
greatest in today's multitasking world
especially ryzen 5 and ryzen 7 are an
absolute breath of fresh air ryzen delivers a strong value for
multitaskers and content creators pretty much across the board
now we could have just left our comparison there but it's pretty common
practice as a system nears its best before date to try to squeeze a little
more life out of it through overclocking so we decided to take advantage of
ryzen's across-the-board overclocking support and run all the tests again
against the older cpus also overclocked
overall the story here is actually pretty similar to be honest Intel's cpus even
going back five years are great for gaming and turning up the juice on them
wasn't going to change that with that said for the folks with mixed
workloads you know 3d animator by day gamer by night
those guys will be really happy to see ryzen
continue to dominate the workloads that they need to make money
and close the gap somewhat in games pushing
more of the system bottleneck onto the GPU
so it comes down then to what matters most to you Intel is the undisputed
gaming king and even folks with second
or third gen core i5s and i7s
wouldn't see enough performance benefit to justify an upgrade to ryzen
and sadly outside of some edge cases
like high refresh rate 1080p gaming that kind of applies to Intel's latest too
but if you're an AMD user or
your work relies on multi-threading or heavy multitasking then you'll find that
ryzen has a lot to offer and without
unforgivable sacrifices in gaming especially if you pair it with a b or x
series motherboard and a decent cooler so you can take advantage of xfr and
overclocking to get the most out of it so then as i mentioned before you'll
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