AMD Ryzen 8-core SKU beats or matches Intel Core i7-6900K
 

In two CPU benchmarks

AMD was keen to show some performance figures of its upcoming 8-core Ryzen SKU at the New Horizon event and has compared it to Intel's US $1049.99 priced Core i7-6900K 8-core Broadwell-E CPU.

AMD noted that Intel's Core i7-6900K is currently the only 8-core/16-thread CPU on the market so it was impressive to see it compared to AMD's Ryzen SKU, core to core and thread to thread. While these two might be matched in terms of cores and threads, AMD's Ryzen SKU was running at 3.4GHz base clock without Boost while Intel Core i7-6900K was left at stock 3.2GHz base and 3.7GHz Turbo CPU frequency.

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