AMD's Zen will have a "greater than 40%" IPC improvement

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AMD has stated that Zen will have a "greater than 40%" IPC improvement, hinting that Zen has performed better than expected. A new CPU design that will "win momentum" in both the commercial and datacenter markets.

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Gotta love AMD graphs :lol:

That's not a 40% incline and the Y-axis doesn't even have (f)actual information on it.

it doesn't matter though, all it needs is a scale (Y-axis) on the side. 40% is a huge leap though. we also need to remember that this is compared to excavator, not Piledriver (the last desktop 8-core)
 
it doesn't matter though, all it needs is a scale (Y-axis) on the side. 40% is a huge leap though. we also need to remember that this is compared to excavator, not Piledriver (the last desktop 8-core)

I just think it's hilarious.

Reminds me of that graph they did where their card was about 10% faster than an Nvidia one and at the bottom of the Y-axis the 10% steps were all spaced quite small, but then the gaps started getting bigger and bigger so the AMD card's bar ended up being a good 30% taller than the Nvidia card's while the graph's numbers indicated that it was <10% faster :lol:

I'll see if I can find that back now but I think they took it down pretty quickly after a lot of community backlash. You'd think they would learn from it :p
 
I'm not sure I like the idea of one socket and one motherboard unifying multiple different Zen iterations. As mentioned in the article, the top-end motherboards absolutely have to have the most modern features or else I won't be interested. The main reason I wanted to upgrade to Z170 was because of the PCI-e x4 support that allowed for very fast M.2 and PCI-e SSD's. That's genuinely exciting to me. Really, it was the Z170 chipset that interested me more than the 6600/6700K, to be quite honest. Whilst you won't have to upgrade your motherboard with every CPU change, will you be left behind as Intel releases new chipsets with new valuable features?
 
Gotta love AMD graphs :lol:

That's not a 40% incline and the Y-axis doesn't even have (f)actual information on it.

Actually no. You can't make any claim on the graph because there is no info on it. It could actually be 40% but you can't claim that. Its really just a graphic not a graph:)
 
The "greater than 40%" performance figure only applies to the server platform column. NOT the consumer column.

Remember: the server platform hasn't been updated since Piledriver - the consumer platform is two generations newer.
 
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