AMD Ryzen chips are about be released in March 2017 and Intel is ready to stop its rival with the launch of the high-end Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X processors integrated with four Core i7-7000 chips. These powerful CPUs are confirmed to be released in August 2017 and all four will be powered by the HEDT X299 flagship platform.

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AMD Ryzen is prepared to compete with the Intel Kaby Lake at some aspects and it comes with remarkably impressive hardware which makes it a worthy contender. This is clear threat to Intel's Core architecture legacy. The Ryzen is specifically designed for PC gaming while Intel offers several advantages to Kaby Lake including power efficiency and faster performance.

According to reports, the Ryzen is a 3.4 GHz+ chip with 8 cores, 4 MB of L2 and 16 MB of L3 cache. It aims to beat Intel's clock speed as it improves by 40% per clock cycle compared to AMD's Excavator core. The boost of performance is partly from its 14nm process that fits more transistors on a silicon piece.

The new "Simultaneous Multi-Threading" also helps in handling multiple tasks. New technology includes the Neural Net forecast which speeds processing by forecasting instructions and Smart Prefetch which forecasts the data's future location and store in cache. AM4 Platform is found in Ryzen including DR4 RAM, PCIe Gen 3, USB 3.1 Gen 2, NVMe and SATA Express.

Meanwhile, the Kaby Lake comes with an integrated USB-C Gen 2 full support which is "native." It features a Thunderbolt 3 support and HDCP 2.2 with the chip integrated GPUs suited for 4K video. VP9 and HVE 10-bit decode are also supported. The Kaby Lake processor is said to consist of a 14-nm manufacturing process that provides 40 percent improved performance and cooling technology than that of the earlier model.

Those who want to take advantage of the DDR4 RAM would have to build a system with an Intel chip inside as only these motherboards support DDR4. However, it could change with Zen on the horizon. Those who are into overclocking their RAM and CPU would be pleased to know that AM4 boards could support these features too. Zen aims to introduce a new era of 4K gaming on the PC with affordable GPUs to achieve this.