The Hardware that will Power the Gaming Industry

This year's Computex kicked off with Lisa Su, President and CEO of AMD, giving her first opening keynote at Computex. In a speech which Lisa expressed AMD’s’ love for gamers’ numerous times, I’m sure gamers will love AMD after seeing the latest announcements.Firstly, AMD have announced the new 7nm “Zen 2” CPU core that will be powering the next generation AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors it has up to 15% estimated instructions per clock (IPC) uplift over the predecessor “Zen” architecture. The “Zen 2” core also includes significant design improvements including larger cache sizes and a redesigned floating-point engine. Continuing its mission to displace Intel’s stranglehold on the gaming CPU market, AMD has also announced the 3rd Gen Ryzen desktop processor. With the 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen desktop processor family, AMD introduced a new category of Ryzen 9 desktop processor with the flagship 12 core/24 thread Ryzen 9 3900X. Pushing the high-performance envelope for socket AM4 by offering leadership performance, the family is rounded out with 8 core Ryzen 7 models and 6 core Ryzen 5 models.