AMD's Zen 2 architecture reportedly offers a +13% IPC boost over Zen+

Zen+ offers a 3% IPC boost over Zen. Zen 2 is starting to look like a compelling architectural leap.



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Might be time to upgrade the 1800X then. If they can do a little more boost tweaking on top of the IPC boost, it could be a spectacular upgrade.

So roughly 16% IPC boost over the original Zen. Pretty impressive.

if the percentages have been done correctly its closer to 19.5% over original Zen

nope scratch that, i goofed and wasn't thinking haha

When is Zen2 going to be available at retail though?

Emu said:

When is Zen2 going to be available at retail though?

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Going by current information I'd expect around March-April just like Zen and Zen+.

nice, the way things are going AMD will be on 7nm+ with Intel still on 14nm+++++

Oh how the tables have changed. Anyone else think this looks like tick tock that another manufacturer used to do until they got stuck on tick tick tick tick...
This is exactly what happend in reverse, Intel released the i series and amd never caught up, until recently I remember bulldozer being marketed as a massive leap in performance and the figures being vastly different from reality, can't think of anything recently that has reminded me of that lol

The difference there is architecturaly Bulldozer was a massive leap. The issue with Bulldozer is that no developer had a reason to target, optimise for, and properly utilise its unique architecture approach.

Many applications would see 20%+ IPC gains on Bulldozer chips just from changing a few compiler flags alone, but of course most Windows software is released as binary files and naturally these binaries are generally compiled with Intel compilers & optimisations.

Zen is a solid improvement over Bulldozer ofc but a good chunk of Zen's gain in gaming and the like comes from that fact its architecture is fairly traditional for an x86 design with far fewer quirks.