Originally Posted by
scaryjim
That's certainly possible, although I suspect the 4C/8T Ryzen CPUs will also be a fair bit cheaper than the i7s, given that they'll likely be harvested parts rather than separate dies, so if they don't quite hit skylake performance form the get-go it won't be such an issue for AMD - after all, the market they want to tag this time is enthusiast and high performance desktop, which means that skylake is only the very bottom of the target stack this time round. The skylake head-to-head will be Raven(?) Ridge APUs, and as CAT speculated (in another thread? Can't see it in this one!) there's a chance they'll get an enhanced version of the architecture (and they'll definitely benefit from improvements to the 14nm process). Since we know Kaby Lake doesn't improve CPU performance AMD have got a fairly static target for the rest of the year...