Ryzen's runway success saw Advanced Micro Devices shake up the CPU market and, while the first of its new PC processor chips released last February lagged in video game performance, the new generation of chips that hit stores this week offer improvements.
"We've spent a lot of time optimizing the performance, especially around gaming scenarios," Kevin Lensing, head of AMD's client business, told Fortune. "Frankly it was an area that we got feedback that we needed to improve on from the first generation. So we put as lot of energy into that. Now head-to-head at any price point, we're now seeing that our gaming experience is roughly equivalent to Intel's."
The release forms part of AMD CEO Lisa Su's move to replace the company's lineup with higher-performance chip designs.
Over the past year, a series of Ryzen chips for PCs and laptops have been introduced along with an array of graphics chips and a new server chip line called Epyc.
The new AMD chips sell from $200 to $330, which is well below last year's top price of $500, Fortune noted.
When it comes to performance, critics and reviewers seem to share in their general approval of the new generation of chips.
"Combining the performance-related security patches on one side, and the incremental performance gains on the other, means that the next generation of products will certainly be interesting," noted Ian Cutress of Anandtech.
Edward Chester writing for Trusted Reviews noted that, while he is yet to have a comprehensive try with the technology, "certainly sounds like a potentially useful addition."
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