AMD is about to launch the Ryzen platform soon and the company is said to switch things from the Bulldozer architecture of 2011 which uses two integer engines and a floating point unit for every core.

Several new leaks have emerged online, saying the launch will come in the next few weeks and it promises to battle against Intel to end a decade of monopoly. The leaks revealed some images of Socket AM4 motherboards and pricing as well. The latest release date rumor is on Mar. 2 at 7:00 AM.

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Australian manufacturer Eyo was seen listing several Asus AM4 motherboards but it has since removed the post. According to reports, the leak reveals a picture of an AMD Ryzen core, showing a floating unit and an integer engine. Asus' Crosshair is the flagship board from the company like for previous AMD sockets in years.

The Prime X370-Pro also uses the same X370 chipset that supports AMD Crossfire and NVIDIA SLI as well as USB 3.1 and over clocking with pricetags of 380 USD and 246 USD respectively. The cheaper boards are priced at 129 USD and 153 USD only but come with the B350 chipset. According to AMD, this chipset will also support overclocking.

However, they don't support multi-GPU configurations. Vendors such as Gigabyte, Asus and more will offer different models that cost between 100 to 150 USD. This is the first AMD launch for Gigabyte which includes its Aorus brand while Asus has swapped the Strix name for Prime.

AMD Ryzen chips are previously expected to be launched in February 2017 and Intel is ready to stop its rival with the launch of the highend Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X processors in four Core i7-7000 chips. These powerful CPUs are confirmed to be released in August 2017 and all four will be powered by the HEDT X299 flagship platform.

AMD Ryzen is prepared to compete with the Intel Kaby Lake at some aspects and it comes with remarkably impressive hardware. This is a clear threat to Intel's Core architecture legacy. Ryzen is specifically designed for PC gaming while Intel offers several advantages to Kaby Lake including power efficiency and faster performance.

According to early reports, the Ryzen is a 3.4 GHz+ chip with 8 cores, 4 MB of L2 and 16 MB of L3 cache. It aims to beat Intel's clock speed as it improves by 40% per clock cycle compared to AMD's Excavator core. The boost of performance is partly from its 14nm process that fits more transistors on a silicon piece.

The new "Simultaneous Multi-Threading" also helps in handling multiple tasks. New technology includes the Neural Net forecast which speeds processing by forecasting instructions and Smart Prefetch which forecasts the data's future location and store in cache. AM4 Platform is found in Ryzen including DR4 RAM, PCIe Gen 3, USB 3.1 Gen 2, NVMe and SATA Express.