AMD Posts Helpful Infographic To Highlight Ryzen’s Strengths

As we established across our look at both Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5, we found that AMD’s latest crop of CPUs are absolute powerhouses in many scenarios, with gaming being the most notable area where the weaker IPC and single-threaded performance has fallen short. I hate to use the term “fallen short”, though, as in the real-world, the differences are so minor, they’re not likely to be noticed outside of benchmarks.

Nonetheless, AMD has created an infographic that helps potential Ryzen customers better understand its benefits, and overall, the information provided aligns to what we saw in our own testing.

For this comparison, AMD chose to highlight its $365 Ryzen 7 1700X ($399 SRP), putting it up against Intel’s $339 Core i7-7700K ($339 SRP).

With gaming at 1080p, Intel enjoys an obvious advantage here, although as mentioned above, the real-world detriment is minor (we’re talking performance at well above 60 FPS in many cases). At 4K, the gap tightens, as the GPU becomes the biggest bottleneck.

For other scenarios, AMD says that Intel’s 7700K falls short against the 1700X in game streaming, content creation, encryption, and video encoding – again, aligning with our own results.

This reality is why I find it a little odd that AMD’s stock (NASDAQ: AMD) dropped in price earlier this week, hot on the heels of a less-than-stellar quarter. Ryzen launched at the start of March, and to call it a rough one would be an understatement. In Q2, AMD has a chance to really begin to grab some marketshare from Intel. Ryzen 5 performs exceptionally well for its price, so for the first time in way too long, we can honestly say that you should consider AMD CPUs for your next build, especially if you dabble in content creation or use CPU-based encoding to stream your gameplay online.