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Ryzen sales lead AMD earnings, despite issues with game optimization and mining |
July 26, 2017
Ryzen was the star of AMD's second-quarter earnings call Tuesday: The processors helped boost earnings 19 percent compared to a year ago. Company executives also had two messages for gamers: one, that game developers had largely completed their code optimizations for Ryzen, and two, that miners who hoarded graphics cards wouldn't be around forever.Both messages should resonate with gamers, who have struggled to find available graphics cards because cryptocurrency speculators have snapped up the available supply. Meanwhile, those same gamers have had to wait while developers rewrote their code to take advantage of the new Ryzen chips.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3211084/components-processors/ryzen-sales-lead-amd-earnings-despite-issues-with-game-optimization-and-mining.html#tk.rss_all
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