Jordi Agricola 19 October 2020 16: 16 57 Comments

Preface Last Friday, we posted a questionnaire about HWI attendees’ upgrade plans when it comes to processors. We received almost 2. 800 responses, and the relevant news item received ample 300 replied times – enough to discuss!

In a little over two weeks, AMD’s Ryzen 5000 chips are hitting the (digital) shelves, and the red camp has big promises for its new Zen 3 models. On the side of Intel, Rocket Lake is under construction, but it is expected that it will take until February-March 2021 before we see those CPUs. The main question we had was: Are you convinced by what AMD has shown, and will Ryzen 5000 the next processor series to settle into your system?

The majority take the leap to Zen 3 For 63, 5 percent of the participants answered that question ‘yes’. Of course, this survey was conducted before the chips are actually on the market, and – possibly more importantly – the independent tests and reviews have not yet arrived. In addition, the title and format of the questionnaire naturally allows for some self-selection as far as participants are concerned, so while the results give a nice indication of the market, they are probably not fully representative. On the following pages we will further elaborate on the background information that we have collected with the questions.