Stefan Mileschin

AMD's Zen architecture has proven impressively scalable. From four cores and four threads to eight cores and sixteen threads and everything in between, the basic eight-core Zen die (often referred to as a Zeppelin) has made a name for itself in PCs ranging from budget builds to the high end. Most impressively, Ryzen 7 CPUs matched Intel's Haswell and Broadwell high-end desktop parts for productivity performance.

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