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If they can use their boost from Ryzen sales to bolster their graphics division, they'll be in a great position. Yesterday I was talking with some coworkers ab
by SteveNuts 8y ago
If they can use their boost from Ryzen sales to bolster their graphics division, they'll be in a great position.
Yesterday I was talking with some coworkers about a new computer build and one of them had recently purchased Ryzen and the other was thinking about it.
So at least anecdotally, AMD does indeed appear to be on fire.
- LarryDarrell 8y agoMy next build probably will be Ryzen based, but... my i7-3770 is still handling all I throw at it.
- SteveNuts 8y agoYeah, I'm in the same boat as you, however I want to add a second graphics card since my monitor is 4k and my motherboard only has one full speed PCI express slot. The only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger is the obscene memory pricing right now.
- krylon 8y agoI deliberately delayed building my current desktop PC until Zen CPUs became available because I wanted to see if it was a reasonable alternative to Intel. And it was totally worth it. I got me a Ryzen 1700, so I have 8 cores, but at 65W it is not excessively energy-hungry. It purrs like a kitten and runs like cheetah.
- smacktoward 8y agoRyzen has indeed seized AMD a lot of mindshare among people who build their own rigs. The problem is that people who build their own rigs are a vanishingly small slice of the overall population of people who buy computers.
- SteveNuts 8y agoReally? From my perspective the amount of people building their own rigs has stayed the same. All my friends that game on PC haven't slowed down buying parts/upgrading their rig/building a brand new one. However, casual PC users seemed to have dropped off the face of the planet, that entire market segment has shifted to laptops and tablets. So much so that the big players (Dell, HP, etc.) have severely cut back consumer PCs and focused on business workstations. I'd be interested to see some real numbers on this!