Will AMD Zen 2 Stand a Chance Against Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake Desktop CPUs in Gaming? (Leaks and Rumors)

Zen 2 Delivers Underwhelming Gaming Performance 

AMD just announced their latest addition to the Ryzen family, Zen 2 featured a 7nm architecture and the CPU was surrounded with hype as rumors were claiming that Zen 2 will outperform competing Intel CPUs in gaming and productivity work but, now that we have seen benchmarks we know that a lot of the rumors were fake. AMD Zen 2 has a hard time outperforming competing Intel CPUs in gaming benchmarks but, it is able to destroy Intel CPUs in productivity work. 

AMD Zen 2 Benchmarks

As you can see in the images below, AMD Zen 2 is able to outperform competing Intel CPUs in multicore benchmarks and the most surprising part is that Zen 2 is able to match competing Intel CPUs in single-core benchmarks. Although Zen 2 matches or outperforms Intel in benchmarks, it has a hard time matching Intel’s performance in gaming.

Ryzen 3000

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Ryzen 3000

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Gaming Benchmarks

Although Intel’s CPUs are still using 14nm architecture, they are still able to outperform competing 7nm Zen 2 CPUs in gaming benchmarks which may be a bad sign for AMD. A large part of the market is gaming but, AMD has been having a hard time tapping into that part of the market in recent years. 

Ryzen 3000

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Ryzen 3000

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Ryzen 3000

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Ryzen 3000

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Ryzen 3000

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Ryzen 3000

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Will Zen 2 Compete With Next-Gen Intel CPU Series?

As you can see below, Intel’s next-gen CPUs are going to be very powerful. AMD Zen 2 is most likely going to be powerful enough to beat the Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs in productivity benchmarks thanks to higher amounts of cores and threads when compared to the competing Intel CPUs but, AND Zen 2 is going to have a hard time competing with Intel 10th-gen in gaming benchmarks. Zen 2 is beaten by Coffe Lake in gaming benchmarks therefore if Comet Lake increases gaming performance by just a little bit, it’ll be able to beat AMD Zen 2 in all gaming benchmarks. It’ll be interesting to see what AMD is planning to do so that they can compete with Intel in gaming benchmarks.

 

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