Zen: New AMD CPUs

[jayres]

It is looking like AMD's new Zen CPU's might become viable contenders against Intel's Haswell chips. They are set to feature multithreading and instructions per clock that really do put them on the same field as Intel's best.

I've also heard that these 8 core CPUs will have a 95W TDP. That makes them less power hungry than Haswell-E.

 

[kelvin235]

I am now using a ryzen 5 2600x. So far this cpu is good. But it is high voltages if you overclock it. It is equivalent to intel's i7 cpu. I am a multitasker so I practically use a ryzen 5 rather than i7 it is more cheap and more cores and threads.