The advent of Ryzen and the response of Intel

[Dirk Broer]

The advent of Ryzen has brought Intel in near-panic mode.
All of a sudden there are overclockable i3's announced and Pentium G series and i5's with hyperthreading.
There are also rumours about a upcoming mainstream (Socket 1151) Coffee Lake i7 with 6 cores/12 threads...

All this at a price, or another trade-off:

• The Pentium G doesn't support as much instructions as an i3 (which has the same amount of cores/threads, but is more expensive and has more cache).
• The overclockable i3 reaches speeds up to i7 level, but has half the cores/threads (plus far less cache and a worse IGP).
• The (overclockable) i5 with hyperthreading is rumoured to have a tdp of 100 Watt.

I do hope the 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen will blow all of Intel out of the water though.