AMD Tests Zen CPUs, "Met All Expectation" with no "Significant Bottlenecks" found

[AlienALX]

Exactly this. I'd be suprised if it beats a 5930k. That said, if they get a cpu that beats the quad core i7 for the price of the unlocked i5 they'll do very well IMO. Especially with the prebuild market.

I doubt they will ever win with IPC so they are simply going to have to offer more for less.

The only aspect of Zen that interests me is their 8 core CPU. Why would I get rid of my 5820k for anything else?

But yeah, something even remotely close to the 5960x for example for £400 or so and I may just switch...

 

[NeverBackDown]

I really hope that AMD pulls through with this one. We need them to, especially seeing how Intel is really bumping up prices..

Yeah, Skylake prices have gotten insane, now my £290 6700K looks like a bargain.

Well thats supply and demand in the works. Not enough supply for the demand so prices go up. 14nm FTW right?!


I know all the hype around Zen is what everyone is focused on.. however it's really only half the battle against Intel. They seriously need to improve and make a new chipset/socket to become competitive on a feature standpoint. PCI 3.0 is a good place to start.. it's only been like 4 years?

 

[CRITICALThinker]

I have no doubt that AMD will come up with a competitive piece that competes on the budget side if not performance. I do not think we will see a better price/performance as the 6300, but I think I may just stick with my intel/nvidia notebook and AMD/Nvidia desktop recipe I have going on when I upgrade. as for the chipset, it will probably be designed with the future in mind, as we may be seeing another long winded socket.

 

[SkySentinel]

maybe im missing something?
but the only way it makes any sense at all is if Clock speeds are 40% faster. so its 4.2ghz instead of 3.0ghz (or whatever +40% of 3.0 is) but then that's not 40% more instructions. that's 40% faster clock speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_cycle
read this, its very informative. If I understand correctly, the microarchitecture determines how an instruction is executed. And that is why these Intel CPUs are so strong though they seem to run slower than the AMD Counterparts, because they can complete instructions much faster with fewer clocks or cycles. And that is the reason why x86-64 microarchitecture is so complicated(CISC architecture, look at ARM with its RISC architecture which is the complete opposite).
So by increasing the IPC by 40% (which is enourmous) that means like completing a Task that normally Needs 10 cycles in only 6 cycles.