ZEN Benchmark from french hardware Magazine
Leave it to the French to break NDA and think it is a good thing. Well, in this case I’m going to “assume” it was something the editor didn't catch but, still it is stuff like this that will bring back paper launches and market delays. It is also making it more difficult for consumers to trust hardware media and will eventually cause it to collapse.
Of course, with that being said and assuming the charts are "correct" the new AMD Ryzen CPU is looking like a winner in the performance arena.
The reddit translation is claiming 8 Zen cores and matching performance with a Intel Core i7 6900K (Broadwell-E) and at a lower than advertised clock frequency. This is great news since AMD really needs something in the performance arena before it even thinks about the consumer space.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out and more importantly what kinds of motherboards might get released. You know they will be full on Crossfire boards with 4-way support (cause:NVidia). Plus if history holds true then we will also get this level of performance for less than the cost of a Core i7 6900K which can be north of $1,000 USD.
It might be time to get excited about AMD again. 
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