AMD Launches Ryzen: 52% More IPC, Eight Cores for Under $330

Looking at the benchmarks it looks like they've matched the top-end Core i7, which is good (especially for the price) but not a game changer. Might get them back in the game.

Given that they seem to have reduced their power consumption the server version of this core might get them back into the data center, which is really what AMD needs to do for their high-end chips. That market is larger and higher margin (AFIAK) than the gamer and pro-desktop markets.

I'd be curious to see some more detailed benchmarks though: math-heavy code, TensorFlow, memory bandwidth under heavy load, virtualization, etc. Looking at this chip and it's high clock speed it might be really good for memory bandwidth intensive loads.