AMD Boosts Prices For New Ryzen 5000 Chips
With its first few generations of Ryzen desktop CPUs, chip company Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) was aiming to catch up to its larger rival Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). The third-generation Ryzen 3000 series, launched in mid-2019, largely accomplished that goal, although Intel retained a single-threaded performance advantage which made its chips ideal for gaming.
With the Ryzen 5000 series, AMD claims to have finally surpassed Intel in single-threaded performance. The company touts as much as a 26% increase in gaming performance for one of its new high-end chips compared to its predecessor, and a 7% gaming performance advantage over a comparable Intel chip. AMD is claiming that the Ryzen 9 5950X offers the highest single-threaded performance of any desktop gaming processor. That would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
Intel's biggest selling point for PC gamers will be gone when Ryzen 5000 series chips become available for purchase on Nov. 5, at least if AMD's numbers are to be believed. But gamers will have to pay up for AMD's new products.
Source Fool.com
