AMD ascending: How Ryzen CPUs snatched the computing crown from Intel – UPDATED

Here’s how Ryzen managed to overturn Intel’s long-held dominance.

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:

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