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JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Rip i3s

All AMD now needs is something to compete against Intel's pentium series and they will be golden!

As far as I can tell for Ryzen vs Intel so far its:

i7 > R7 in gaming
R5 > i5
R3 > i3

I would put the i5 above the R5, at least for gaming.For productivity, the extra cores/threads make the R5 a better choice.

That said, and beyond gaming, Intel still has an edge over AMD with the Pentium and i3 series, and that's because they have an IGP, making them a cheaper option for business and home PCs not made for gaming.

AMD needs to launch Zen based APUs soon, but that won't happen because the next APUs in line are still based on the old Excavator (I think) architecture.

I would still choose AMD over the Pentium i3 for one simple reason. Overclocking.

Those APU's were released last year with Bristol Ridge, granted it was OEM's only. There should be a retail release eventually this year.

Zen APU's should come after Epyc with Raven Ridge.

They will go up to Quad-Cores + 11 SM "vega" cores.
If we assume 64 pipeliens per SM, that is 704 shaders.
We could be looking at an APU that is competitive with the base Xbox One and Playstation 4, depending on clockrates of course. (Bandwidth not withstanding.)
DDR4 3200mhz in dual channel is good for 51.2GB/s of bandwidth. With Colour compression bringing it up to a possible 66.56GB/s.

I would like to see an APU in the Thread Ripper socket. Quad-Channel DDR4 for 102.4GB/s of bandwidth/133.12GB/s? Sign me up.