AMD has been very busy in breaking the long-standing monopoly of Intel, and the company is doing this with Ryzen, which has been announced recently. Now, AMD Ryzen rumors about a monster processor with 16 cores are coming up. As of now, Ryzen has a better value for money and is an all rounder when it comes to gaming and multitasking.

While Intel still is beating AMD Ryzen at single thread tasks such as gaming, AMD has assured that after BIOS updates and Windows 10 Scheduler update, Ryzen 7 is going to be at par with the single thread performance of the Intel i7. As for multithreading, Ryzen easily beats the competition and is becoming the go-to processor for streamers and editors.

AMD wants to build on their "multithreading pioneer" name and release a processor that might have as many as 16 cores and 32 threads. This would pose a direct threat to Intel i7-6950K which is a deca-core, 20 thread CPU. However, AMD might ditch the AM4 architecture and instead go for an LGA architecture, like most Intel CPUs. 

Right now, AMD Ryzen rumors suggest that CPUs lack premium motherboard support that Intel has with the X99 platform. The X99 platform also supports quad channel memory support which Ryzen 7 processors are competing with. Moreover, the motherboard platform has to be massive, as the CPU itself is going to be twice as big than the Intel i7-6950K.

AMD Ryzen rumors suggest that the 16-core 32-threads CPU might be priced $1000 less than the flagship Intel, which is currently priced at a massive $1649 at Newegg. Moreover, AMD Ryzen reports are coming in that there would be a series of these processors, as the flagship AMD CPU would be priced at $1000. 

With Ryzen 5 announced for a release on April 11 and with reports of a MacBook Pro coming with Ryzen APU, AMD Ryzen rumors are spreading like wildfire. If everything goes well, AMD would likely become the leading CPU vendor in 2017.