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AMD says that developers need to get a better handle on Ryzen

Performance differences are more of a software issue

As the reviews of Ryzen came out, it is pretty clear that there are some test scenarios where Intel chips work slightly better, and AMD claims that is due to coding issues.

..developers simply aren't used to AMD Ryzen yet, He said to fix this problem AMD's seeding of a targeted 1000+ developer systems in 2017 will help address the performance anomaly..

.. Bethesda has announced a strategic relationship with AMD to optimise for Ryzen CPUs .. for a new generation of games, DLC and VR experiences, he said..

Oxide Games .. public statement .. significant performance uplift observed when optimizing for the 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 CPU design. These optimisations not yet reflected in Ashes of the Singularity benchmarking. Creative Assembly, developers of the Total War series, made a similar statement ..

CPU benchmarking deficits to the competition in certain games at 1080p resolution can be attributed to the development and optimization of the game uniquely to Intel platforms – until now.

Even without optimisations in place, Ryzen delivers high, smooth frame rates on all 'CPU-bound' games...

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