I've been following zen for a little more than a year holding to my old i7 920 pc (it's not even funny :( ).
Now that actual ryzen reviews are out i'm actually quite pleased with them.
yes gaming performance kind of under deliver and I was hoping better.
but there's some point to take into consideration.
If we look at individual benchmark we can clearly see that ryzen is a beast except when single tread is highly used.
There's seems to have many problems with mobo and bios.
Games are not optimized to take advantage of ryzen.
Games and engine optimization for intel cpu may hurt performance on ryzen processor.
Even if AMD priced the r7 1700 to compete against the 7700k it's true competitor stays the 6900k.
Ryzen includes many new feature for Amd and these certainly needs tweaking and ajustement, some might be resolved via bios update some may need design fixes.
for all those reasons I have no problems believing AMD when they say it will only get better via patch and updates.
If single threaded performance are any indication of what it could potentialy deliver, in this case after all update and fixes the R7 should perform just under the 6900k for gaming.
Personnaly i'm waiting for R5 1600X or 1400X as those should perform better or the same in game for less $.
And looking at how the 1700, 1700X and 1800X perform almost the same when clocked at the same speed I might event go for a R5 1500 or 1300.







