AMD Ryzen chips have disappointed many with its 1080p gaming performance, which still favors the Intel Core processors. However, AMD chief executive Lisa Su reveals that optimizations and future patches could significantly improve the performance of the Ryzen chips as backed up by game developers like Oxide Games, Bethesda, and Creative Assembly.

AMD Ryzen chips have proven that it is powerful enough for workload leveraging its many cores and threads. The top tier Ryzen 7 1800X has shown that it can keep up with the Intel Core processor three times its price. However, it is outperformed by the Intel Core chips in single core performance test, particularly in 1080p gaming. This can be resolved though as AMD's Su reveals that Ryzen's dismal gaming performance will get a dramatic boost with optimizations currently being worked on by numerous developers.

Last Thursday, Su reveals that more than 300 developers have received the Ryzen devkit hardware to bring "vital optimizations" needed to improve the AMD Ryzen chips' 1080p gaming performance. In a series of Reddit posts, the AMD chief assures gamers that Ryzen will significantly improve once developers have more time working with the new Zen architecture. In fact, developers like Oxide Games of "Ashes of Singularity" and Creative Assembly of "Total War: Warhammer" have seen "significant performance uplifts" of the Ryzen chips with optimizations according to Hot Hardware. Bethesda and Sega have also made good progress and are already at "near-term optimization."

On why AMD Ryzen was not prepped to do well in 1080p gaming performance, AMD's corporate vice-president of marketing John Taylor said that development and optimizations of games are uniquely designed for Intel chips until now. This claim is not exactly accurate for there may be AMD processors out there used by gamers as well. Intel only has the advantage since its chips have been known to be the best processors for gaming according to Digital Trends. Moreover, Zen is a new architecture and many of the games are seldom optimized for a large number of cores and threads, which explains why AMD was not able to foresee Ryzen's disappointing gaming performance.

Nonetheless, AMD will be laboring on some areas of improvement starting with the Ryzen memory controller. The red team will also be collaborating with motherboard vendors in refining their BIOSes since early motherboards had disabling features that switch off cores. All this and with developers' support, AMD is ensuring Ryzen chips' game performance to be at par with the competition, PC World reported.

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