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For me personally, Ryzen is a great CPU... for the price if you need the extra cores... but... for gaming, I still cannot help but a little feel disappointed.
Not in AMD, rather where it leaves me. I was really looking forward to NDA lifting, thinking that once the results where out I would finally have a compelling reason to scratch that upgrade itch, that I could finally make an informed choice between Ryzen and Kabylake and end the waiting game. Unfortunately instead I feel as though there is just more questions, unknowns. As someone that has been holding out on a i5 760 (and believing that outside of gaming throwing a SSD at my system has done more for prolonging its life, productivity and usability day-to-day for me than any improvements Intel or AMD have really offered), I regretting not having held off just a little bit longer for the 2600K instead, and I'm reluctant to make the same mistake a second time.
I appreciate where the concerns with the 1080p benchmarks are coming from, clearly being someone that upgrades my graphics card far more frequently than the underlying platform I'm using. There's the thought there, if its doing this at 1080p now, what's to say with Vega or Volta or whatever else is to come in that next couple of years, the difference won't be more pronounced or the bottleneck won't fall back towards the CPU at higher resolutions? On the inverse that does imply that games will continue to be developed the same way, and if Ryzen brings more cores to the masses and the uptake is good (assuming K3's won't eat into that?) will developers start optimizing for better multi-threading rather than lowest common denominator, and perhaps it will be Kabylake that won't age as well in comparison?
I understand that trying to future proof is a fool's errand, its just that this launch seems to make things even less clear going forward than usual. For gaming the option seems to be go Intel for best current performance that isn't that much better than generations I've passed on previously and stuck at quad core, or go AMD for the potential and hope that the platform improvements and third party support/optimizations will come through. Neither is very compelling. While it does feel like we're going through a change, neither Kabylake or Ryzen are feeling at all like being the "next" Sandy Bridge, and by extension for me it just doesn't feel like the right time to buy in to either platform (as someone not [H] enough to be able to change platform frequently).
So while I hate saying it, for me its back to the waiting game... at least until the dust settles (as much as I appreciate AMD for at least stirring it up, was overdue).
Not in AMD, rather where it leaves me. I was really looking forward to NDA lifting, thinking that once the results where out I would finally have a compelling reason to scratch that upgrade itch, that I could finally make an informed choice between Ryzen and Kabylake and end the waiting game. Unfortunately instead I feel as though there is just more questions, unknowns. As someone that has been holding out on a i5 760 (and believing that outside of gaming throwing a SSD at my system has done more for prolonging its life, productivity and usability day-to-day for me than any improvements Intel or AMD have really offered), I regretting not having held off just a little bit longer for the 2600K instead, and I'm reluctant to make the same mistake a second time.
I appreciate where the concerns with the 1080p benchmarks are coming from, clearly being someone that upgrades my graphics card far more frequently than the underlying platform I'm using. There's the thought there, if its doing this at 1080p now, what's to say with Vega or Volta or whatever else is to come in that next couple of years, the difference won't be more pronounced or the bottleneck won't fall back towards the CPU at higher resolutions? On the inverse that does imply that games will continue to be developed the same way, and if Ryzen brings more cores to the masses and the uptake is good (assuming K3's won't eat into that?) will developers start optimizing for better multi-threading rather than lowest common denominator, and perhaps it will be Kabylake that won't age as well in comparison?
I understand that trying to future proof is a fool's errand, its just that this launch seems to make things even less clear going forward than usual. For gaming the option seems to be go Intel for best current performance that isn't that much better than generations I've passed on previously and stuck at quad core, or go AMD for the potential and hope that the platform improvements and third party support/optimizations will come through. Neither is very compelling. While it does feel like we're going through a change, neither Kabylake or Ryzen are feeling at all like being the "next" Sandy Bridge, and by extension for me it just doesn't feel like the right time to buy in to either platform (as someone not [H] enough to be able to change platform frequently).
So while I hate saying it, for me its back to the waiting game... at least until the dust settles (as much as I appreciate AMD for at least stirring it up, was overdue).