caledonianblues wrote:JimboCrow wrote:AMD chips have always been a very good value for any budget conscious computer shopper. These chips, however, at first look, are a game changer. Your move Intel.
Agreed. This can only be a good thing for Intel fans. Hopefully this will force them to drop their prices a bit. I paid a silly amount for the i7-6950X and if the Ryzen performs as predicted, well, it's going to offer consumers far more bang for their buck.
I'm really surprised by how low AMD's pricing is on these chips. With Intel having set the price point for comparable CPUs much higher, I would have thought AMD might have leveraged more profit. But instead, their extremely aggressive marketing strategy is the gauntlet for a price war. In the meantime, I wouldn't be surprised to see advertisements for these Ryzen chips at much higher prices on eBay, when supply can't meet the demand.
(Side note: It remains to be seen if their Vega GPUs will close the gap enough to use similar tactics against nVidia.)