Despite the product isn't launched yet and the performance still isn't officially confirmed, yet I have to say that I'm simply stunned. Not only by Ryzen, but the sudden change AMD has gone through. In reality of course the change hasn't happened over night however it still feels like AMD has suddenly been waken from a bad spell, which has lasted for almost seven years. Most of you are familiar with the things I've very openly criticized during the past couple years, in regards of the products themselves and the marketing / general policies AMD has practiced and executed. I'm fully aware that many of the things I said were harsh, but that was mostly intentional and I don't regret any of it as I never had to lie about any of it. In those cases where the harsh comments weren't intentional, they became more harsh than intended out of plain frustration.
If a year ago I would have been asked to bet my life either on AMD or against AMD, I wouldn't have had any other choice but to bet against them.
- Hitting competitive frequencies on a design manufactured on a low power manufacturing process, targeted for handheld devices - (allegedly)
- Meeting, let alone exceeding the advertized marketing figures (in this case the 40% IPC improvement over XV). Let alone by a figure, which apparently can be nearly 40% higher than originally quoted (up to 55% absolute over XV) - (allegedly)
- Be able to even remotely keep up with the original promises, let alone vastly exceeding them.
For the record, I was wrong about Zen.
For the Fmax part due having a prejudice against low power processes in general and against GlobalFoundries in particular, and for the IPC part because I couldn't even dream that AMD could meet, let alone exceed their advertized IPC figures.
If I wore a hat, I would tip it to AMD right now.