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I see it all over the place YouTube comments and forums alike wait for Zen seems to be the end thing right now if you're not interested in spending more than about 200 or so US dollars on an Intel CPU and you're not interested in the efficiency nor the single core performance of an FX processor namely the am-3 and f m2 plus line ups then wait for zen but i've never really been a fan of that phrase as much as I do want AMD to come in and just crush the market and force então to lower their prices substantially in order to compete we have to be real here it's taken AMD almost five or six years to come up with a process that is much more efficient than the one they're currently using on top of that they've pushed their deadline back time and time again not that any other company doesn't do that but you get my point but it does finally seem like Zen is in fact just around the corner according to multiple sources and that means yes ladies and gentlemen Zen is in fact worth waiting for so what the heck is this video about then Greg I mean Zen isn't released yet and I doubt you have benchmarks of Zen CPUs and even if you did you'd be under a nondisclosure agreement so you couldn't release those anyway what do you plan to do here I'm gonna get you hyped up for it what I have here is an FX 8320 ea4 module eight core CPU I have a video explaining FX architecture in a card right here but let's be fair it's not the most efficient chip and it's certainly not the most powerful which probably explains its price AMD realizes this it's why they've been taking so long to refine Zen to make sure that it is competitive with intel's current lineup the jump from 32 to 14 nanometers not only means a big changes in efficiency but also IPC instructions per clock which is essentially how powerful a single core and any given cpu is the bulldozer and piledriver limits were never especially spectacular when it came to single core performance which is a big reason why they took huge framerate hits in most cases in games I mean take a look at these graphs here in literally every game the FX 8320 e falls significantly behind the i7 6700 K when it comes to average and minimum frame rates we can't of course blame AMD in the sense that while this is 32 nanometer architecture compared to 14 nanometer architecture it's I mean it's piledriver vs. skylight what do you expect folks well I do expect AMD to release something soon that should compete with the i7 6700 K and if we're looking at prices around 200 or 250 US dollars that will put a huge target on the eye 767 hundred case back look I'm not showing you those graphs to make Intel look any better that's the last thing I want to do until needs competition that is undeniable what I'm trying to do is keep you away from a CPU lineup that will undoubtedly become obsolete in the coming days I can finally say it with certainty folks waiting for Zen is worth doing even if you're planning to build an ultra budget PC with either an FX 6 core or 8 core processor I would argue that waiting for Zen and buying their cheapest 4 core processor would be the better bet and it doesn't matter what game you play at this point almost all games benefit from stronger single cores I mean look at Minecraft even a heavily modded version in 1440p which utilizes more GPU than I would like to think suffers dramatically under an FX 8320 II literally half the framerate across the board just another reason to wait this is a matter of red vs. blue who's on which side who claims to be a fanboy and who claims to call other people fanboys this is simply a matter of price to performance something that I expect the Zen will shake up the market with I choose Intel for 90 to 95 percent of my personal rigs because until CPUs are undoubtedly much more powerful and don't result in significant framerate cuts like we just saw budget builders have a different question to ask but you should altima be led to the same conclusion wouldn't you rather wait for a much better PC in the CPU department then build one right now that would honestly disappoint you if you compared it to a CPU like this it just comes down to patience ddr4 pcie 3.0 newer chips newer architecture all that stuff can be enticing but are you willing to wait for it grant it not a lot of these things will have significant impact on your day-to-day computing tasks but when it comes to the CPU itself AMD Zen 14 nanometer architecture a totally different design of a CPU core for AMD is all of that worth waiting for I say yes I hope you do too let me know in the comments what you think be sure to give this video a thumbs up if you are hyped up at all give it a dislike if you feel like a bit opposite or if you hate everything with life and click that subscribe button if you haven't already this is cells are studio I'll catch you in the next video thanks for learning with this