Ryzen Future Performance Speculation/Opinions

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Well even at 4GHz Ryzen keeps up quite well with even a 5Ghz Skylake or Kaby Lake chip.

- Edit: From what I know Ryzen IPC is somewhere between Haswell and Broadwell. They fixed what the knew what was wrong with Vishera which was single core performance, I'm willing to bet wih either the refresh of Ryzen or Ryzen 2 we'll see higher clocking chips but for now it seems they are testing the waters with what they have now and only time will tell.
well ask yourself this. Is haswell too slow to run pc games? what about BroadwellX or SkylakeX? what do they all have in common? the same basic performance as Ryzen.

Would a 6 or 8 core haswell be too slow? I don't think so. reminder, Ryzen is 20% slower clock speed than a 5ghz Kaby Lake, and usually 3%-7% slower on actual frame rates.
 
But that's kind of my point. All of those Intel chips can run close to 5GHz. Ryzen can only do 4GHz. As you said that's a 20% difference in clock speed/single-core performance.

It's only 3-7% slower on actual frame rates now, but I'm asking about in the future. (Nevermind, I see how pointless this is now.)

I'm just wondering if it will only become slower in terms of relative gaming performance. Perhaps this all depends on the game and how it is programmed to handle multi-core processors.

*I think my opinion is that if will be great for 60fps gaming for quite some time. But higher refresh rate it, even today, it will bottleneck without being fully utilized. For instance, at 1080p Ryzen 5 1400 bottlenecks GTX 1070, Ryzen 5 1600 bottlenecks GTX 1080 Ti. But neither CPU is anywhere near its max capacity while bottlenecking the GPU.

**My argument is still kind of pointless, because for the price of either Ryzen 5, you would get either an i3 or an i5, which will still both bottleneck the respective GPU in certain games.
 

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Well even at 4GHz Ryzen keeps up quite well with even a 5Ghz Skylake or Kaby Lake chip.

- Edit: From what I know Ryzen IPC is somewhere between Haswell and Broadwell. They fixed what the knew what was wrong with Vishera which was single core performance, I'm willing to bet wih either the refresh of Ryzen or Ryzen 2 we'll see higher clocking chips but for now it seems they are testing the waters with what they have now and only time will tell.
 
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