Of course there have been 6 core processors before the Ryzen chips, the difference is Ryzen brought them to the mainstream. The Ryzen chip is a third of the co

Of course there have been 6 core processors before the Ryzen chips, the difference is Ryzen brought them to the mainstream. The Ryzen chip is a third of the cost of the Intel chip and doesn't require the expensive enthusiast X99 platform. AMD's great achievement is bringing 6 and 8 core chips /to the mainstream/, affordable by pretty much everyone. Intel's X99 enthusiast platform has been around longer but is massively more expensive.