After a span of Intel supremacy, new Ryzen processor released by AMD could contest Intel head on. Definitely Intel will not back down and will release Kaby Lake, its Skylake successor. AMD has been the underdog in this Intel dominated gaming world. Intel is a well-known brand to deliver advanced processors for gaming, but now its place is being challenged with the arrival of AMD Ryzen.

Certainly, this year will be a very interesting year for hardware buffs. AMD Ryzen is expected to hit the market in Q1 2017. Reportedly, the Ryzen will be a 3.4GHz+ chip with 8 cores, 4MB of L2 and 16MB of L3 cache. The AMD is aiming to beat Intel's clock speed to contend with Intel's top processors. Ryzen is said to have improved by 40% per clock cycle with the same power consumption. The new "Simultaneous Multu-Threading" architecture also helps in handling multiple tasks.

Reports implied that Kaby Lake gives full support for USB-C Gen 2, together with Thunderbolt 3 and HDCP 2.2 that are both inherent in Kaby Lake. Apparently Kaby Lake also integrated GPUs better-suited to 4K video that allow users to edit real-time 4K video using nothing more than integrated graphics. It will also be supported by VP9 and HVEC 10-bit decode. The chip will definitely be liked by video enthusiasts.

Ryzen will seemingly be a worthy opponent for Intel this time. This year publicity for Ryzen is great and majority of enthusiasts says that they would wait for Ryzen to be released before buying new chips. The AMD latest addition, the Ryzen architecture, is ready to take on Intel Kaby Lake at some points. Accordingly, Ryzen has a considerably remarkable hardware set that makes it an appropriate contender.

This could be a clear evidence for Intel that the Core architecture legacy will be threatened. AMD claims that Ryzen is specifically designed for PC gaming. On the other hand, Intel conveys a few more advantages to Kaby Lake including faster performance and power efficiency.

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