If Ryzen packs this kind of a punch at 3.4GHz or even considering 3.8GHz, with the leaked SKUs with turbo or base clocks well into the 3.7-4GHz range at the rumored $300-500 range, then this Intel note posted by Kyle Bennett @ HardOCP
is that much more hilarious now. If it wasn't obvious enough when it surfaced, it's full damage control, with the added touch of people jumping out of the burning ship after seeing those results. Bloodbath it is, at least for Intel's precious monopolistic fat margins. Apart from that, this completely validates AMD's results at the new horizon event with a 3.4GHz fixed Ryzen equaling a stock turbo enabled 3.2/3.7GHz 6900k. What would happen if we were to put up that Ryzen baseline vs stock Intel processors? Ouch. We know the number of that baseline... once it shows up in their database, we can validate.
Gotta love competition, and what a shoestring budget with a few bright engineers left unconstrained can do for a product. AMD wanted that lucrative server market? Yup, that 0% share they hold right now will go up quite quickly... Not only that, imagine these cores in the APUs powering future consoles. Gaming future sure is bright, all that CPU power will do wonders!
It's nice to catch some fresh air after all these many years. The leaks can't be stopped now, only 18 days to go...