The Battle For Supremacy: AMD Ryzen VS Intel Kaby Lake, AMD Might Beat Intel This Year

In this Intel dominated gaming world, AMD has been the underdog. After a decade of Intel supremacy, AMD released the new Ryzen processor that could fight Intel head to head. Of course Intel will not back down and will release its Skylake successor, the Kaby Lake. This year is a very interesting year for hardware enthusiasts.

The AMD Ryzen

AMD Ryzen is expected to hit the market in Q1 2017. As reported by Trusted Reviews, the Ryzen will be a 3.4GHz+ chip with 8 cores, 4MB of L2 and 16MB of L3 cache. To compete with Intel's top processors, the AMD is aiming to beat Intel's clock speed.

Compared to AMD's Excavator core, the Ryzen is said to have improved by 40% per clock cycle with power consumption just the same. The performance boost is said to be partly from the 14nm process which fits more transistors onto a given piece of silicon. The new "Simultaneous Multu-Threading" architecture also helps in handling multiple tasks.

We also get the new SenseMI, which makes the processor run as fast as it only needs to saving power when the system is not in use. There is also this Precision Boost, which increases clock speed to deliver maximum performance, much like Intel's Turbo Boost.

Another new technology for Ryzen is te Neural Net Prediction which speeds CPU by predicting instructions in advance. Partner that wilt Smart Prefetch, which anticipates the data's future location and store it in the cache. AM4 Platform is featured in Ryzen that includes DR4 RAM, PCIe Gen 3, USB 3.1 Gen 2, NVMe and SATA Express

The Intel Kaby Lake

Tech Radar reported that Kaby Lake integrated full support for USB-C Gen 2 and is said to be "native". Thunderbolt 3 is also in support together with HDCP 2.2 and is both "native" in Kaby Lake. The Kaby Lake also integrated GPUs better-suited to 4K video. This enables users to edit real-time 4K video using nothing more than integrated graphics. VP9 and HVEC 10-bit decode will also be in support. This chip will surely be loved by those video enthusiasts.

According to PC World, Kaby Lake is built on the same 14nm process as Sky Lake. But with improvements in the manufacturing process, might as well consider it "14m+". Intel's improvements made to its Speed Shift Technology and its manufacturing improvements caused the performance of office products up to 12% and mundane task to 19%.

The corem7 and core m5 names are also replaced by Core i7-7Y75 to note the significant boost in its speed. 100 models of laptops will also be using different makes and models of Kaby Lake this quarter.

Ryzen is really a worthy opponent for Intel this time. We might see a different scene this year as the hype for Ryzen is great and majority of enthusiasts says that they would wait for Ryzen's release before buying new chips.