Why AMD Ryzen CPU more affordable than their Completion Intel CPU?

[valeman2012]

Why AMD Ryzen CPU more affordable than their Completion Intel CPU?

 

[bmockeg]

To attempt to improve marketshare

 

[Gam3r01]

Because they have to be. AMD may not have the raw performance that intel does, but they can offer comparable (ballpark) performance. If they cant offer undeniably better performance than intel then its best to drop prices to improve sales.

Its a great business practice for them, its really gone in their favor with Ryzen.

 

[valeman2012]

Because they have to be. AMD may not have the raw performance that intel does, but they can offer comparable (ballpark) performance. If they cant offer undeniably better performance than intel then its best to drop prices to improve sales.

Its a great business practice for them, its really gone in their favor with Ryzen.

Yes and might be even better for their market share....if Intel does not get their act together...AMD going takeover soon or later.

 

[ss202sl]

It's their business plan. There's a lot of money being made by providing a cheaper alternative to Intel.

 

[valeman2012]

It's their business plan. There's a lot of money being made by providing a cheaper alternative to Intel.

Some people goes for performance...even if is higher price (Intel)?

 

[smorizio]

it just like a restaurant. one that had good food but you leave hungry or the all you can eat Chinese food buffet. the food not as great but your full when you leave. itel has become the Cadillac of the cpu world. they did not care what other people were doing in there segment. they thought people would keep buying there server and cpu chips. same thing happened when toyota made there higher end lexius and gm still made there older boats. they lost a lot of market share till they could catch up with lexius. intel right now there fab plants because of the 10nm flub they cant meet the domaind for there 12nm chips right now.

 

[TerryLaze]

Look at the i7-8700 vs 2700 = 6c/12t vs 8c/16t ,that's 33.3% more cores on the ryzen chip to get the same overall performance in applications and it's the same on all tiers ryzen needs the additional grunt from SMT to be close to the same number of cores without HTT on the intel side.
Yes if you only look at 3d/video the ryzen chip does much better but the general population runs general workloads.
AMD has no other choice than to sell at wholesale prices.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html

 

[valeman2012]

Look at the i7-8700 vs 2700 = 6c/12t vs 8c/16t ,that's 33.3% more cores on the ryzen chip to get the same overall performance in applications and it's the same on all tiers ryzen needs the additional grunt from SMT to be close to the same number of cores without HTT on the intel side.
Yes if you only look at 3d/video the ryzen chip does much better but the general population runs general workloads.
AMD has no other choice than to sell at wholesale prices.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html

Despite the 8 Cores 16 Thread still cant beat a i7 8700K in Games???

 

[Supernova1138]

Despite the 8 Cores 16 Thread still cant beat a i7 8700K in Games???

Games don't scale all that well across large numbers of cores, and most games usually do have a single thread responsible for draw calls, and that tends to be the limiter to performance if you are CPU bound. Newer APIs like DirectX 12 and Vulkan are supposed to allow for multithreaded draw calls, but few games available now are effectively using these APIs. Intel's CPUs do still retain the single thread performance crown due to slightly better IPC and being able to clock much higher than Ryzen eg. even 2nd gen Ryzen tends to cap out somewhere around 4.2GHz with maybe a few golden chips hitting 4.4GHz while you can usually get an 8600k or 8700k up to 4.9GHz or higher.