Last June AMD delivered on its promise to deliver an AMD CPU that performed better than ever before and Ryzen was born using AMD’s Zen architecture. Just short of a year later, another Ryzen line is being released. Ryzen’s 2nd generation CPUs were kicked off with the launch of the Ryzen 3 2200G and the Ryzen 5 2400G earlier in the year. The 2nd generation of the performance Ryzen CPUs features the Ryzen R5 2600x and the Ryzen R7 2700x. These CPUs are built on a 12nm Zen+ processor and feature better memory management, Precision Boost 2, and overall higher clock speeds.