For over a decade the world has been covered in a blue shroud of Intel dominance. Ever since 2006 Intel has been growing its CPU market share dramatically. In Q3 of 2016 Intel had 84% of the market share for CPU sales. This had led to huge problems for consumers. Innovation was slowed, prices rose and Intel no longer had to care about being good to customers as they had no other choice. They were easily smashing Vishera and the Fx series out of the water with their core i5 and i7 CPU skews. The main problem for AMD CPU's was single threaded workload. AMD had learned to fit lots of cores in for a little cost but their CPU's had awful single threaded performance. This led to big losses in areas such as gaming. This was a big loss for AMD as in the late naughties and early twenty-tens gaming exploded (largely in e-sports games) and the demand for desktop CPU's went up. Intel took most of the profit from this. AMD was in a sticky situation and they knew they had to change something drastically...
Finally, the Ryzen circle is complete with 7,5 and 3. (similar to core i7, i5, and i3... I wonder why!!?!?). This means that AMD has officially made its comeback firing a broadside of new great value processors. AMD is now back in the favor of all PC enthusiasts. All of their new RYZEN architecture CPU's are full overclockable, come with heaps of L1, 2 and 3 caches, are low TDP and also have loads of threads. All this combined leads to in my opinion the best lineup of CPU's the world has ever seen. AMD's range of CPU's all hit a specific audience and they hit it perfectly. Going from the value of the Ryzen 3 end to extreme performance in the 1800x. Has a list of CPU's ever been easier to understand?
