Ryzen, AMD's response to Intel's current desktop processors are one of the most anticipated chipsets for the current PC industry mainly due to its competitive pricing that also is performing equally to that of an intel counterpart. They're also likely to be the next big thing for all budget consumers due to the fact that revealed benchmarks detailing about near equal results to existing Intel chips.

AMD Ryzen was announced back in January. However, as of now, there's absolutely no precise information regarding their release date. All those looking for a cheap processor with no compromise in terms of performance have been eagerly looking at AMD to announce a proper release date. But what they're getting to know in turn is only about benchmarks, which at the moment is keeping all AMD loyalists on their toes.

Other details, from WCCFTech, mentioned its release date that's supposedly scheduled to be out in the markets on Mar. 02. The power consumptions of AMD Ryzen chips are expected to be very low and as such the R5 1600x will consume just 95W and is also a 'Black edition' processor.The same report also detailed about another benchmark results, from Cinebench CPU tests scoring 1136 with the processor clocked at 3.3ghz, however with the test bench running along with a Pascal GTX 1080 from Nvidia.

AMD Ryzen chips will be carrying an 'R7' tag as a prefix indicating their new naming scheme that was changed from 'Zen' to 'Ryzen' recently. Latest benchmarks from various demo units reveal about certain chipsets outclassing some of Intel's high-end desktop processors. One among them is the R5 1600x which will reportedly cost $259 per reports from Forbes.

Benchmarks for the Ryzen R5 1600x in CPU-Z seems to overtake both top-end Intel i7 chips, in single-threaded as well as multi-threaded testing environments. The near-equal competitor from Intel, the i7 6850x, on the other hand, costs about 2.5x the price totaling at $610 also offering a similar set of cores and threads.

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