AMD ascending: How Ryzen CPUs snatched the computing crown from Intel
(PCWorld)

Monday, November 25, 2019 was a momentous day. On it, AMD´s benchmark-shattering, floor-wiping, mic-dropping 32-core Threadripper 3970X reviews launched alongside Intel´s most potent consumer chip, the 18-core Core i9-10980XE. The wild performance difference between the two respective champions drove home a truth that´s been slowly building and is suddenly here: For the first time since Intel´s Core architecture ended the Athlon 64´s dominance nearly 15 long years ago, after an AMD Bulldozer era seemingly endless with disappointment, AMD´s Ryzen processors are firmly in control on the desktop.To read this article in full, please click here