Reviewers Liked
- Great multi-core performance
- Excellent value for most applications
- Trades blows with Intel's Core i7-6900K at half the price
- Solid power draw
- Smooth gaming with strong minimum frame rates
- Attractive new AM4 platform
- Easy-to-use Ryzen Master software
- Huge performance leap over previous generation AMD FX processors
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Still behind in gaming
- Not great overclockers
- Single core performance lags behind competing Intel "Kaby Lake" chips
- Chipsets don't have as many PCI Express/SATA ports as Intel's offerings